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	Root beer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Root beer is a fermented beverage made from a combination of vanilla, cherry tree bark, licorice root, sarsaparilla root, sassafras root bark (which is carcinogenic), nutmeg, anise, and molasses among other ingredients.
		There was an upsurgence in the popularity of root beer in the United States during the period of prohibition in the early 20th Century as local breweries resorted to brewing root beer since alcoholic beverages were outlawed.
		Root beer is also used as a flavoring for candy, cough drops, popcorn, root beer floats, jelly beans, cakes, popsicles, milk, barbecue sauce, and breads.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Root_beer (992 words)

	Root beer float - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A root beer float is a dessert that consists of root beer and ice cream (traditionally vanilla-flavored).
		Root beer floats are usually eaten with a spoon.
		A root beer float is also sometimes called a brown cow or fl cow, although the former also refers to an ice cream soda made with cola instead of root beer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Root_beer_float (607 words)

	Bulldog Root Beer - Root Beer History
		There were three ways to brew small beer; either it was made from the small bits of sugars left in the grains after a strong beer was made, or it was made with a very small quantity of grain, or it was drunk very young and sweet before fermentation was completed.
		Modern root beer is closest in flavor to the last method because of its high sweetness level, although no modern commercial root beers use yeast or contain any alcohol at all, as I will explain in a moment.
		Root beer purists claim that the flavor of artificial sassafras is not the same as the original, and they complain that many modern root beers rely too heavily on wintergreen, anise, cloves, lemon oil and orange oil.
	www.bulldogrootbeer.com /RBhistory.htm (2071 words)

	Interesting Ideas: Root beer
		Root beer is in fact an elastic concept, with every maker having its own definition of what it should be.
		The most common problem tasters found with the various root beers was excessive sweetness, while the winners generally rated highly for their deep "root beer flavor." Even the winning brands, however, received few kudos for creaminess, a traditional marker of great root beer.
		It is mostly when compared with a rich, even root beer, such as IBC or Canfield's, that Filbert's and many of the other poor performers seem too fruity or too sweet.
	www.interestingideas.com /ii/rb.htm (443 words)

	Howstuffworks "What is root beer?"
		Root beer, birch beer and ginger beer are three common forms of this non-alcoholic sort of beer.
		In the case of root beer, the flavoring comes from the root of the sassafras tree or the sarsaparilla vine.
		The root beer extract is mixed with sugar, yeast and water.
	www.howstuffworks.com /question137.htm (174 words)

	Interesting Ideas: Root beer
		Root beer's freewheeling formulations reflect its antecedents, which go back to 18th and 19th Century farm households that brewed their own versions from any available ingredients.
		As were other soft drinks, his root beer was sold for its supposed medicinal qualities as well as its ability to refresh.
		In a 1992 book on root beer collectibles, author Tom Morrison said he had substantiated the existence of 831 brands through the years on the evidence of bottles, bottle caps, labels and advertising, though he estimated that as many as 2,000 brands may have existed at one time or another.
	www.interestingideas.com /ii/rbhist.htm (526 words)

	Homemade Root Beer Recipe
		Root Beers and soft drinks of many other flavors can be made at home quickly and it is great fun for the kids!
		Pour the root beer into the bottles so that there is about 1-1/4 inch of air space left in the neck of the bottle.
		The root beer will improve in flavor with time but it must be stored in the refrigerator.
	www.leeners.com /rootbeer.html (1328 words)

	Root Beer Encyclopedia Article @ NaturalResearch.org (Natural Research) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		My friends, Jim and Ellen from Kalamazoo, passed on this story about "Twinkies and Root Beer." It is certainly worthy of telling and even retelling on the porch...
		Other ingredients may include allspice, birch bark, coriander, juniper, ginger, wintergreen, hops, burdock root, dandelion root, spikenard, pipsissewa, guaiacum, yellow dock, honey, clover, cinnamon, prickly ash bark, and yucca.
		Root Beer in the UK Information and forum regarding the availability of root beer in the UK RootBeer.net
	www.naturalresearch.org /encyclopedia/Root_beer (1058 words)

	Encyclopedia Rootannica: Frequently Asked Questions About Root Beer
		Root Beer is a sweetened, carbonated beverage originally made using the root of a sassafras plant (or the bark of a sassafras tree), with sassafras as the primary flavor.
		Many brands of root beer contain flavorings that are listed on the Fibromyalgia Treatment Center's One Thousand of the Most Common Natural Salicylates to Avoid including anise, cinnamon, clover, corn syrup, ginger, honey, sarsaparilla, sassafras (the main flavoring in root beer), vanilla, wintergreen, and yucca.
		Although sassafras roots and bark may contain natural foaming agents, additional foaming agents such as yucca or quillaja extracts, are often added to increase root beer's froth, head or foaminess.
	www.rootbeerworld.com /questions.htm (1101 words)

	A&W Root Beer - History & Collectables
		Now, seventy years later, AandW Root Beer is the world's number one selling root beer and is still made fresh daily and sold at hundreds of AandW Restaurants.
		The two partners combined their initials - "A" for Allen and "W" for Wright and formally named the beverage, AandW Root Beer, Three units were opened in Sacramento, then on to other northern and central California locations and to the states of Texas and Utah.
		During World War II no new restaurants were opened and despite governmental sugar rationing (this affected supplies of bottler’s sugar, a necessary ingredient of root beer) and employee shortages (also a result of the war) most AandW units remained successful.
	www.awrootbeer.com /hist_hist.htm (519 words)

	sassafras root beer - candy
		Root beers are a mixture of many different types of roots, they are a "beer of roots".
		Root beer may be blended to the public taste and acceptance.
		Numerous combinations of roots and ingredients, such as: Dandelion, Sassafras, Anise, Birch, Cinnamon, Clove, Licorice, Vanilla, Wintergreen, and many other barks and herbs may be blended in different quantities to give root beers their different tastes.
	www.rootbeerbarrels.com /sarsaparilla.htm (308 words)

	Root Beer Flavor
		Now you can make your own root beer at home that really tastes like the handcrafted root beer that some of the microbreweries are making.
		We evaluated all of the "soda pop" root beer flavors and none were particularly exciting.
		Most root beer instructions tell you to add Champagne yeast, bottle, wait a day, then chill the bottles to prevent over-carbonation and bottle grenades.
	www.hoptech.com /rootbeer.html (991 words)

	Halfbakery: Root Beer Float Vending Machine
		Root Beer Floats, however, are perfection confections, and as you stated, igirl, brand choice is of paramount importance.
		I was only this morning thinking of sarsaparilla (the local name for 'root beer', as it's flavoured with the roots of Smilax sarsaparilla, a vine native to Central America).
		In the movie, Cannery Row, Nick Nolte orders a beer float (on a dare of sorts), the whole diner is quiet while she scoops the ice cream (tentatively) into a mug...
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/Root_20Beer_20Float_20Vending_20Machine (583 words)

	Article: Root Beer and Ginger Beer Heritage
		That thirst quenching, popular beverage named Root Beer, enjoyed by children and adults for the last two centuries, was principally made from a handful of major ingredients.
		Technically, the number one Root Beer company was Coca-Cola, which used all of the primary ingredients of Root Beer plus the extract of the kola nut.
		After a few hours of primary fermentation, the Root Beer was poured into stone bottles, and tightly corked to retain the pressure, carbon dioxide, and alcohol, both of which acted as preservatives.
	www.fohbc.com /BandE_Article4.html (2830 words)

	Jason's Root Beer Page
		The best document I've ever seen about making homemade root beer comes from Steve Mercer and can be found here.
		For those that like things simple, most grocery stores sell "root beer concentrate." You should be able to find it near the spices.
		I've also been told that Root Beer Brewing Kits can be purchased from Grant Street Root Beer.
	www.paisleynet.com /rootbeer/homemade.html (527 words)

	Brewing Root Beer
		This article is going to assume you are going to ferment your root beer, but it is also possible to force carbonate instead.
		The Hires root beer recipe is a great source, but there are a couple of items that you must have, and a few that you should have.
		Roots that are heavy should be cut or split.
	www.greydragon.org /library/brewing_root_beer.html (1432 words)

	The Root-Beer Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		It has the soft carbonation that you expect from a draft Root Beer and there are hints of anise or licorice in the background.
		This Root Beer is definitely over extended in the label area as well as the flavour area.
		Dominion isn't a bad Root Beer, but it has quite a journey ahead of it to be a good one.
	root-beer.blogspot.com (1948 words)

	Root Beer - Luke's Root Beer Home
		Root beer has been an American staple for centuries, quenching the thirst and aiding the digestion.
		The discovery in the 1960s that one of the main ingredients in sassafras root -- sassafrol -- caused cancer may have led to a decline in root beer drinkers.
		Root Beer World -- which keeps track of the 2,134 brands of root beer they have found so far...
	www.lukecole.com /Root%20Beer/lukes_root_beer_home.htm (1221 words)

	ROOT BEER NON ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE BREWING HISTORY AND LAGER LINKS - MISS BUDWEISER WATER SPEED RECORD BOAT
		Mix together dissolved yeast, sugar and root beer extract in gallon jar.
		The root beer will be ready to drink the next day.
		Reminiscent of old-fashioned root beer, due to the sassafras.
	www.budweiser-beer.net /root_beer.htm (151 words)

	anthony's root beer barrel, FAQs
		the way i see it is this: birch beer came from birch trees, sarsaparilla came from sassafras trees and root beer came from one or more of many different trees, most often the sassafras tree.
		in order to get sassafras root these days though, you have to dig it up yourself since it is illegal to buy or sell it.
		uuummm, i don't MAKE root beer, i tried once to do it with root beer extract but failed miserably and that was like 4 years ago anyhow.
	www.rootbeerbarrel.com /faqs.html (677 words)

	A root beer FAQ
		Root Beer is a sweet carbonated beverage flavored with sassafras.
		Root beer is flavored with a distillate of the young shoots or
		beer, but not as strongly as modern root beer extract.
	www.jagaimo.com /bistro/rootbeerfaq.html (4516 words)

	The Food Timeline--beverages
		Small beers, or low-alcohol beers carbonated by the action of yeasts, have been traditional and nutritious drinks for children, women, and the elderly in England and Europe for centuries.
		Although many of these small beers were flavored with ginger or lemon, another common flavoring and one popular for its antiscurvey properties was that of the bark of spruce or birch trees.
		This kit for making root beer was supposed to contain sixteen roots, herbs, barks, and berries, including sassafras, the dominant flavoring, and required home fermentation with yeast.
	www.foodtimeline.org /foodbeverages.html (6475 words)

	FAQ - Spike's Root Beer Reviews and Ratings
		From epicurious.com, root beer is made from "various roots, herbs, and barks".
		Birch beer is made with birch bark extract.
		Two possibilities I've heard: 1) there isn't enough stuff to ferment in root beer, and 2) because root beer is fermented in a closed container the yeast dies from lack of oxygen (the yeast consumes oxygen and produces carbon dioxide).
	www.rootbeerreviews.com /faq.html (417 words)

	Great American Root Beer Showdown
		There are dozens, or perhaps hundreds of root beer brands (Ask Dr. Root Beer's List of Known Root Beers), and we'd love to taste them all, but first they must be found.
		Unlike cola soft drinks, the root beer market seems to be wide open to anyone with a recipe and a bottling plant in their basement.
		Look for new root beer brands at your favorite local sandwich shop, at liquor stores, at the corner convenience store, in regional grocery stores, in the cooler at a coffee shop, sometimes even in a museum or clothing shop.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Delphi/8338/rbeer/Rootbeer.html (351 words)

	Roadside Peek : Root Beer East
		Root Beer locations are still prevalent in the Eastern states.
		The last one left of the old Richardson Root Beer Company, this Conneaut, Ohio landmark still serves root beer mixed fresh in the mug when the spicket on the barrel is flipped open.
		Stewarts is famous for their root beer and their waitresses that bring the food to the car, like in American Graffiti.
	www.roadsidepeek.com /rpeekeast/eatseast/rbeereast (544 words)

	IBC ROOT BEER - History
		The smooth, creamy refreshment of IBC Root Beer began in 1919 with the Griesedieck family and the independent Breweries Company in St. louis, hence the name of IBC Root Beer.
		Development as an alternative to alcoholic beverages during prohibition, IBC Root Beer became renowned for its quality, richness and great taste.
		When the independent Breweries Company closed, the Kranzberg family purchased the trademark and distributed IBC Root Beer at their North-western Bottling Company, its popularity grew during the 1920s, and it was soon available at many top restaurants.
	www.ibcrootbeer.com /history.html (158 words)

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