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20-495: Haiti and the Dominican Republic are two of the largest Caribbean exporters of the bark and leaves. Often the drink is fermented using a portion of the previous batch, while sometimes it is consumed unfermented. Mauby is often bought as a pre-made syrup and then mixed with water (sparkling or still) to the consumer's taste, but many make it themselves at home or purchase it from neighbourhood producers or street sellers. Its taste

40-611: A beverage made from his famous extract. By 1893, root beer was distributed widely across the United States. Non-alcoholic versions of root beer became commercially successful, especially during Prohibition . Not all traditional or commercial root beers were sassafras-based. One of Hires's early competitors was Barq's , which began selling its sarsaparilla-based root beer in 1898 and was labeled simply as "Barq's". In 1919, Roy Allen opened his root-beer stand in Lodi, California , which led to

60-404: A few (e.g. Hansen's) use a safrole-free sassafras extract. Major root beer producers include PepsiCo , Coca-Cola Company , Dad's , Keurig Dr. Pepper , and A&W . Root beer has been drunk in the United States since at least the eighteenth century. It has been sold in confectionery stores since at least the 1840s, and written recipes for root beer have been documented since the 1830s. In

80-537: A foamy quality, and caramel coloring is used to make the beverage brown. Ingredients in early and traditional root beers include allspice, birch bark, coriander , juniper , ginger , wintergreen, hops, burdock root, dandelion root, spikenard , pipsissewa , guaiacum chips, sarsaparilla, spicewood, wild cherry bark, yellow dock , prickly ash bark, sassafras root, vanilla beans, dog grass, molasses and licorice. Many of these ingredients are still used in traditional and commercially produced root beer today, which

100-482: A more alcoholic beverage (such variation is called "hard root beer"). Root beer was originally made with sassafras root and bark which, due to its mucilaginous properties, formed a natural, long lasting foam, a characteristic feature of the beverage. Root beer was originally carbonated by fermentation. As demand and technology changed, carbonated water was used. Some manufacturers used small amounts of starch (e.g. from cassava ) with natural surfactants to reproduce

120-457: A new batch. Mauby bark and leaves are boiled with ginger, avocado leaves, brown sugar and other spices. The drink is then placed in a tight sealed bottle and left out in the sun for 6-8 hours. The drink is then placed in a dark cool place left to ferment up to a week. Ginger has a significant role in the fermentation process. Grupo Taino LLC of the Dominican Republic markets two commercial versions of mabi , both made with carbonated water. Seybano

140-521: A soft drink called sarsaparilla ) as the primary flavor. Root beer is typically, but not exclusively, non-alcoholic , caffeine-free , sweet, and carbonated . Like cola , it usually has a thick and foamy head . A common use is to add vanilla ice cream to make a root beer float . Since safrole , a key component of sassafras, was banned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1960 due to its carcinogenicity , most commercial root beers have been flavored using artificial sassafras flavoring, but

160-435: A syrup from molasses and water, letting the syrup cool for three hours, and combining it with the root ingredients (including sassafras root, sassafras bark, and wintergreen ). Yeast was added, and the beverage was left to ferment for 12 hours, after which it was strained and rebottled for secondary fermentation. This recipe usually resulted in a beverage of 2% alcohol or less, although the recipe could be modified to produce

180-425: Is initially sweet, somewhat like root beer , but changes to a prolonged, but not astringent bitter aftertaste . To many, it is an acquired taste, and has been known to cause an initial laxative reaction unexpected to many first-time drinkers. In Puerto Rico the drink is also called mavi champán (champagne mauby) because the drink is fermented, causing it to foam. This process is made by mixing an older batch with

200-564: Is lighter in color and made from tree bark extract and white and brown sugar , while Cacheo is darker and made from both bark and fruit extract, with spices and brown sugar. Contrary to its name, Mabi Cacheo does not include sap from the Cacheo palms ( Pseudophoenix ekmanii and P. vinifera ). Mauby Fizzz is a commercially produced and carbonated version of the drink produced in Trinidad and Tobago by multinational PepsiCo from mauby bark. It

220-429: Is often thickened, foamed or carbonated. Most major brands other than Barq's are caffeine -free (Barq's contains about 1.8 mg of caffeine per fluid ounce). Root beer can be made at home with processed extract obtained from a factory, or it can also be made from herbs and roots that have not yet been processed. Alcoholic and non-alcoholic traditional root beers make a thick and foamy head when poured, often enhanced by

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240-580: Is unfermented. A similar version is also produced in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines called Hairoun Mauby, produced by St. Vincent Brewery Limited, a company in the AmBev portfolio. Root beer Root beer is a sweet North American soft drink traditionally made using the root bark of the sassafras tree Sassafras albidum or the vine of Smilax ornata (known as sarsaparilla; also used to make

260-504: The FDA in 1960. Laboratory animals that were given oral doses of sassafras tea or sassafras oil that contained large doses of safrole developed permanent liver damage or various types of cancer . While sassafras is no longer used in commercially produced root beer and is sometimes replaced with artificial flavors, natural extracts with the safrole distilled and removed are available. One traditional recipe for making root beer involves cooking

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300-861: The United Kingdom, Malaysia, Argentina, Germany, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Indonesia, Sweden, Vietnam, and Thailand. The flavor of these beverages may vary from typical North American versions, or be similar to those found in North America. While no standard recipe exists, the primary ingredients in modern root beer are filtered water, sugar, and safrole-free sassafras extract, which complements other flavors. Common flavorings are vanilla , caramel , wintergreen , black cherry bark, licorice root , sarsaparilla root , nutmeg , acacia , anise , molasses , cinnamon , sweet birch , and honey . Soybean protein or yucca are sometimes used to create

320-1203: The addition of yucca extract, soybean protein, or other thickeners. Alcoholic root beers produced in the 2000s have included Small Town Brewery 's Not Your Father's Root Beer; Coney Island Brewing Co. 's hard root beer; and Best Damn Brewing Co.'s Best Damn Root Beer. root tea Look for Root tea on one of Misplaced Pages's sister projects : [REDACTED] Wiktionary (dictionary) [REDACTED] Wikibooks (textbooks) [REDACTED] Wikiquote (quotations) [REDACTED] Wikisource (library) [REDACTED] Wikiversity (learning resources) [REDACTED] Commons (media) [REDACTED] Wikivoyage (travel guide) [REDACTED] Wikinews (news source) [REDACTED] Wikidata (linked database) [REDACTED] Wikispecies (species directory) Misplaced Pages does not have an article with this exact name. Please search for Root tea in Misplaced Pages to check for alternative titles or spellings. You need to log in or create an account and be autoconfirmed to create new articles. Alternatively, you can use

340-442: The development of A&W Root Beer. One of Allen's innovations was that he served his homemade root beer in cold, frosty mugs. IBC Root Beer is another brand of commercially produced root beer that emerged during this period and is still well-known today. Safrole , the aromatic oil found in sassafras roots and bark that gave traditional root beer its distinctive flavor, was banned in commercially mass-produced foods and drugs by

360-448: The familiar foaming character of sassafras-based root beer. Some brands of root beer have distinctive foaming behaviors, which has been used as part of their marketing identity. Commercial root beer is now produced in Canada and every U.S. state. Although this beverage's popularity is greatest in North America, some brands are produced in or imported by other countries, including Australia,

380-443: The nineteenth century, it was often consumed hot and was often used with medicinal intent . It was combined with soda as early as the 1850s; at that time it was sold as a syrup rather than a ready-made beverage. Beyond its aromatic qualities, the medicinal benefits of sassafras were well known to both Native Americans and Europeans, and druggists began marketing root beer for its medicinal qualities. Pharmacist Charles Elmer Hires

400-559: Was the first to successfully market a commercial brand of root beer. Hires developed his root tea made from sassafras in 1875, debuted a commercial version of root beer at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876, and began selling his extract. Hires was a teetotaler who wanted to call the beverage "root tea". However, his desire to market the product to Pennsylvania coal miners caused him to call his product "root beer", instead. In 1886, Hires began to bottle

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