However, root beer’s unique flavor comes from sassafras, a tree root native to the United States. Historically, Native ...

European colonists loved the aroma of the plants and made the first root beer by fermenting low-alcoholic beer and adding ...

You might know Sassafras (Sassafras albidum) as the original root beer flavoring ingredient. While the tree's oil is no longer used to give the beverage its aroma, modern root beer flavor mimics ...

“It just kind of snowballed from there.” Root beer dates back to at least the 1830s, when it was made by boiling sassafras root and taken medicinally. But Prohibition helped it take root in ...