Imagine having an ice cold root beer minus the carbonated gas but packs an alcoholic punch. Sounds good? My thoughts exactly.
Root tea as it was call back in the 1700′s is actually an alcoholic beverage taught to the settlers by the Native Americans. It’s essentially an herbal remedy made with sassafras, sarsaparilla, birch bark and other wild roots and herbs. Towards the end of the 19th century, the temperance moment spoiled the fun for the rest of us. So the took out all the alcoholic goodness and renamed it, ironically enough, ‘Root Beer’.
Thankfully the good people at Art in the Age are giving us the chance to taste the original, very much alcoholic and organic beverage in Root. I bet you’ll never look at another root beer the same way again.
