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1922. Allen partnered with former Lodi employee Frank Wright and leased their first two Root Beer stands to other operators so they could expand into the larger city of Sacramento. This was around the same time the partners coined the new name A&W®, “A” for Allen and “ W ” for Wright.
Strong and healthy teeth are always the goal. But when you drink sugary drinks like root beer , you’re running the risk of weakening your teeth and causing decay, all thanks to the sugar content! There’s also a lot of caffeine in root beer , which can distrupt your sleep patterns and cause insomnia, too!
A&W Root Beer
Type | Root Beer |
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Manufacturer | Keurig Dr Pepper (United States, Worldwide) A&W Canada , The Coca-Cola Company (Canada) |
Introduced | 1919 |
Related products | Barq’s, Mug Root Beer, Dad’s Root Beer, Hires Root Beer, A&W Cream Soda |
Root Beer: Carbonated water , sucrose , high fructose corn syrup , caramel color , natural and artificial flavors , sodium benzoate, phosphoric acid, and red #40.
It is, or at least once was, the main flavourful ingredient in root beer . Sassafras (a tree) and sarsaparilla (a vine) were traditionally used–along with other substances like licorice root , mint, nutmeg, and more–to flavour root beer .
Hires Root Beer
According to the American Kidney Fund, a recent study suggests that drinking two or more carbonated sodas, diet or regular, each day may increase your risk for chronic kidney disease. Carbonated and energy drinks have both been linked to the formation of kidney stones.
Unfortunately, for root beer fans, Cyber Candy and other shops should no longer be selling root beers identified to have more than the allowed quota of sodium benzoate. According to Wikipedia it says that Benzene in soft drinks is of potential concern due to the carcinogenic nature of the benzene molecule.
Alcoholic root beer is all the rage right now, or so big beverage companies like Anheuser-Busch and Pabst would have you believe. With an alcohol content hovering around 5.5 to 6 percent, it’s basically like A&W or Barq’s with the added effect of getting you drunk , as some unlucky children in Tennessee just discovered.
A&W Root Beer: The Coca- Cola Company.
Mug Root Beer is a brand name of root beer made by the New Century Beverage Company of San Francisco, California, a subsidiary of PepsiCo.
Barq’s /ˈbɑːrks/ is an American soft drink. Its brand of root beer is notable for having caffeine. Barq’s, created by Edward Barq and bottled since the beginning of the 20th century, is owned by the Barq family but bottled by the Coca- Cola Company.
When carbonated root beer comes into contact with the ice cream, carbon dioxide bubbles are released. The fat in the ice cream coats all these bubbles, protecting them and allowing them to expand to create the huge heads of foam you see on root beer floats.
While all soda is not labeled as a health food, root beer is considered to be a healthier option than cola . Cola has an erosive ingredient that can strip away tooth enamel, or varnish from a wood floor! Caffeine has to be intentionally added to root beer , while cola derives caffeine from its basic ingredients.
The “ root ” in the name of Hires’ concoction came from its main ingredient, the sassafras root . Hires changed the name of his product from “tea” to “ beer ” sometime before the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876. It’s likely that he changed the name to make the beverage more appealing to the working class.