Some might suggest too much emphasis on the roots, but not I.
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Perfect for me!
I can't drink anymore, since 3 years. One beer gives me a 36-hour headache so bad I can't move. Walking my dogs was horrible. Eyes closed. Sunglasses on. Hand over glasses. The sun still hurt like a mother. Quitting was EASY. Really sad, but easy. I went from being able to drink normally to my current condition in less than 8 weeks.
The local IPAs up here are SO good.
Miss them, I do.
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Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
I never tried any root beer, for it's not a mass market drink where I live. Hope to taste it one day.
I've tried alcohol free malt drinks while being in Israel though. Maybe it's more or less the same, I don't know.
Alcohol free beer kinda defeats the concept of beer.
First, "root beer" is a marketing term and has nothing to do with "real" beer. Hard to describe what it tastes like...kinda like sarsaparilla...
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Perhaps:
"Root beer as we know it today is descended from "small beers," a collection of beverages (some alcoholic, some not) concocted by American colonists using what they had at hand."
Inventor Charles Hires' Root Beer Goes Public in 1876
I'll see your source and cite my own: "Root Beer is first known to have been marketed commercially at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876 by a teetotal Philadelphia pharmacist named Charles Hires who is said to have discovered a recipe for a delicious herbal tea while on his honeymoon. He introduced a commercial version of the tea which he sold in 25-cent packets of powder, each of which yielded five gallons of root beer. He claimed the powder was a solid concentrate of sixteen wild roots and berries."
Root Beer
Hires was a teetotal and marketed it as a "family-friendly drink." The good thing is that many people like it, there are a bunch of brands on the market, and everyone should try it once.
Root Beer
Hires was a teetotal and marketed it as a "family-friendly drink." The good thing is that many people like it, there are a bunch of brands on the market, and everyone should try it once.
I believe you entirely about Hires, that he was a teetotaler, and that his version of root beer was alcohol free. I certainly don't know enough about root beer history to say one way or the other. However, your citation says pretty much the same thing as mine in the second paragraph. Your citation:
The origins of root beer can be traced back to 18th century American
farm brewers who adapted native North American recipes to make very low
or non-alcoholic family drinks, known as a small beer.
My citation:farm brewers who adapted native North American recipes to make very low
or non-alcoholic family drinks, known as a small beer.
"Root beer as we know it today is descended from "small beers," a collection of beverages (some alcoholic, some not) concocted by American colonists using what they had at hand."
If my recollection is correct, it was almost required to have a certain, very low amount of alcohol in household beverages because water supplies were unreliable in terms of bacteria. Personally, I don't drink anything with alcohol or large amounts of sugar these days. Alcohol leaves me feeling ill the next day and sugar just about makes me comatose.
You’re right... but at a gig earlier this year I tried Heineken 0% and it was surprisingly good... I didn’t need to worry about being over the limit and had a few during the gig
Afraid I'm slowly going to your camp, guys. I always enjoyed my booze, up to quite large amounts of hard drinks sometimes. Last years it cames more and more to beer, cuz heavy drinks just give me headache. If this progresses, beer will be out of picture one day as well.
I knew a couple of guys who completely switched from booze to MJ, but the staff is still illegal here.
I knew a couple of guys who completely switched from booze to MJ, but the staff is still illegal here.
