Is Root Beer,really made out of beer???

Answer 1

it used to :)

Answer 2

Root beer has NOTHING alcoholic in it but the reason it is called "beer" is because of the way that it has a foam "head" on top of a glass full of the drink exactly the same as a real beer does. It is made from "roots". There are MANY different recipes for making it.

Answer 3

well, i went and searched the origin of root beer and found this! lol


Charles Hires was a Philadelphia pharmacist who according to his biography discovered a recipe for a delicious herbal tea while on his honeymoon. The pharmacist began selling a dry version of the tea mixture and also began working on a liquid version of the same tea. The result of was a combination of over twenty-five herbs, berries and roots that Charles Hires used to flavor a carbonated soda water drink. The Charles Hires' version of the root beer beverage was first introduced to the public at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial exhibition.

The Hires family continued to manufacture root beer and in 1893 first sold and distributed bottled root beer. Charles Hires and his family certainly contributed greatly to the popularity of modern root beer, however, the origins of root beer can be traced further back in history.

Root beer has its origins in what is referred to as "small beers." Small beers are a collection of local beverages (some alcoholic, some not) made during colonial times in America from a variety of herbs, barks, and roots that included: birch beer, sarsparilla beer, ginger beer and root beer. Ingredients in early root beers included allspice, birch bark, coriander, juniper, ginger, wintergreen, hops, burdock root, dandelion root, spikenard, pipsissewa, guaiacum chips, sarsaparilla, spicewood, wild cherry bark, yellow dock, prickly ash bark, sassafras root*, vanilla beans, hops, dog grass, molasses and licorice. Many of these ingredients are still used in root beer today along with carbonation. There is no one recipe.

so nope! no beer = ]]

Answer 4

Root beer is made out of the root of a certain tree, which roots smell just like root beer. i had to take one out of my yard. Don't know if they still do that today cuz alot of sodas have artificial flavorings.

Answer 5

No, it could even be called root soda, but root beer is more catchy. The root part originates from the use of sarsaparilla roots in root beer to give it it's distinct flavor.

Answer 6

No, and it's not even made from roots anymore, either! The "beer" came from the head it produced when poured.

Answer 7

actually your question should be is root beer really made out or roots???

Answer 8

no, but you can make a proper beer using roots, etc., for flavoring.

Answer 9

No, but it is brewed like beer from many different ingredients.

Answer 10

no, but it looks like beer, and kids drink it all the time, tehy love it!

Answer 11

Nope.