Root beer

  I will introduce about root beer. Do you know root beer? This is different to beer. Root beer is a kind of non-alcoholic carbonated beverages.

  American colonists bacame acquainted with the sarsaparilla plant, the roots of which, when boiled, yielded a homemade cough syrup. In 1866, a medical student in Philadelphia bacame interested in the syrup. He concluded that it had no medicinal value, but he was intrigued by the novel flavor. After months of experimentation, he succeeded in preparing a tasty beverage flavored with sarsaparilla extract. Became it came from the roots of the plant and looked a bit like beer, he called it "root beer."

  The young man's name was Charles Elmer Hires. His root beer was first sold in a Philadelphia drugstore at five cents per mug. It made such a hit that Hires put other interests aside, and in 1876 started a national business marketing and selling Hires Root Beer.

  And still root beer is famous also as a favorite drink of Snoopy which appears in comics "peanut".

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