The recent hard root beer trend has spilled over to Kennewick Grocery Outlet where we suddenly, outta nowhere, have 3 brands to choose from... They just appeared one day.
Although root beer- to most of us in modern culture- is commonly considered a soda pop/soft drink beverage, the alcohol version was popular in colonial American times (18th century). And even before that, the Native Americans were making medicinal beverages with bark and roots, i.e. sassafras & birch. So it looks like when the Europeans arrived, they hacked root beer into the party zone. Oh, those crazy white people!
It eventually lost favor as an alcoholic beverage probably since using corn, grains, hops, etc., was more convenient and plentiful to cultivate than foraging roots & bark. Which also explains why most soft drink root beer is artificially flavored anyway.
But lately we're seeing more natural ingredient craft root beers; both soft drink and hard format.
And now ya know. ;)
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