re: #144 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I remember drinking birch beer when I was younger. And also discovered at an older age the great difference between the more commercial brands of root beer and birch beer and the more traditional recipes using ingredients like sugar instead of corn syrup.

And I’d say that root beer benefited from the micro brewery movement since a number of brew pubs were making root beer as a non-alcoholic alternative beverage for their establishments.

That, and sarsaparilla has been withdrawn from commercial root beer as a “likely carcinogen” by the FDA. Additionally, many traditional medical claims for the root have been conclusively shown in studies to be of no benefit.