Root Beer
No commercial root beer brand available in the United States today contains any actual sassafras. Between 1876 and 1960, billions of gallons of real sassafras root beer were consumed in the United States with no documented adverse health e…
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No commercial root beer brand available in the United States today contains any actual sassafras. Between 1876 and 1960, billions of gallons of real sassafras root beer were consumed in the United States with no documented adverse health events. Charles Hires, a Philadelphia pharmacist, invented commercial root beer in the 1870s by carbonating a traditional Pennsylvania Dutch sassafras brew.