Pour me a cold one!

It’s National Root Beer day! There’s so many different types to choose from, but where did it actually come from? Pharmacist Charles Elmer Hires was the first to successfully market a commercial brand of root beer. Hires developed his root tea made from sassafras in 1875, then debuted a commercial version of root beer at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876, and began selling his extract. Now you know! Bottoms up (if you like root beer).