Brands Of Beer
Charles Hires was a Philadelphia pharmacist who according to his
biography discovered a recipe for a delicious herbal tea while on his
honeymoon. The pharmacist began selling a dry version of the tea mixture
and also began working on a liquid version of the same tea. The result
of was a combination of over twenty-five herbs, berries and roots that
Charles Hires used to flavor a carbonated soda water drink. The Charles
Hires' version of a root beer beverage was first introduced to the
public at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial exhibition.
The Hires family continued to manufacture root beer and in 1893 first
sold and distributed bottled root beer. Charles Hires and his family
certainly contributed greatly to the popularity of modern root beer,
however, the origins of root beer can be traced further back in history.
Another famous brand of root beer is A & W Root Beer, now the number
one selling root beer in the world. A & W Root Beer was founded by
Roy Allen, who began marketing root beer in 1919.
