Is rootbeer really made of a root? If so, what kind?!
Is rootbeer really made of a root? If so, what kind?
Answers:
The English language has lots of words that are used in two or three different ways. For example, the word "cabinet" can mean "storage space in your kitchen" or "a group of folks who advise the president." Beer is a word with two meanings. It can mean an alcoholic beverage made from cereal grains, or a non-alcoholic beverage flavored by root extracts. Root beer, birch beer and ginger beer are three common forms of this non-alcoholic sort of beer.
In the case of root beer, the flavoring comes from the root of the sassafras tree or the sarsaparilla vine. Originally, the root was brewed like a tea to make an extract, but now it is much easier to buy the extract ready-made.
The root beer extract is mixed with sugar, yeast and water. If this mixture is placed in a tightly sealed bottle, the yeast will generate carbon dioxide at a high enough pressure to carbonate the water. You end up with fizzy, delicious root beer!
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sarsaparilla root
Yes, it is made from the root of the beer tree.
No it is made of water salt sugar and other things you are silly but in a funny way
To tell u the truth I dont think so. But that is a good question!
i think its from ginger root.
I have never had root beer, but I believe it is Sarsaparilla!
I always spent summers in Michigan, where the sassafras tree grows wild. When you crush a leaf in your hand, it smells just like rootbeer. The leaves are pretty and come in three different kinds on the same tree. A mitten, a hand and I forget what the 3rd one looks like. A pretty, small, wild tree. The drink is made from the root, boiled down.
It's made from the sarsaparilla root, but there is sarsaparilla soda and it's tastes even better than root beer.
I don't think root beer is made of roots of the trees.I think it's because they relay ran out of words.