
It can also serve as the base for some great zero-proof mocktails if you’re in the midst of dry January or just taking it easy. It can be combined with spirits for some memorable cocktails like a Dark ‘n Stormy or Scotch and Ginger Highball. Once a method to extract the harmful oil from the sassafras was found, sassafras could continue to be used without harmful repercussions.Bartenders understand the value of a good ginger ale. However, it was determined that the potentially dangerous element of the plant was found only in the oil. Sassafras is one of the main flavoring ingredients in root beer. Food and Drug Administration banned the use of sassafras as a potential carcinogen.
Currently manufactured and distributed by PepsiCo, Mug's brand mascot is a bulldog named “Dog.”
The product name was later changed to Mug Old Fashioned Root Beer, which was then shortened to Mug Root Beer.
Mug Root Beer: Mug Root Beer was originally marketed as “Belfast Root Beer” during the 1940s by the Belfast Beverage Company. It was the first product to make use of the six-pack packaging format invented by the Atlanta Paper Company in the 1940s. Dad's: The recipe for Dad's Root Beer was created by Ely Klapman and Barney Berns in the basement of Klapman's Chicago-area home in the late 1930s. The brand is still owned by the Barqs family but is currently manufactured and distributed by the Coca-Cola Company. It was the creation of Edward Barq, who along with his brother Gaston were the principals of the Barq's Brothers Bottling Company founded in the New Orleans French Quarter in 1890. Barq's: Barq's Root Beer debuted in 1898. In 1924, Allen bought his partner out and obtained a trademark for the brand that is now the top-selling root beer in the world. A year later, Allen partnered with Frank Wright to form A&W Root Beer. A & W: In 1919, Roy Allen bought a root beer recipe and began marketing his beverage in Lodi, California. Here are some of the most notable root beer brands.
The success of his commercial root beer sales soon inspired competition.
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Charles Hires would have a lot to feel flattered about.