Heading into November and December, she says, she receives as many as 10 calls a day from customers looking for root beer extract, which is usually unavailable in the supermarket’s baking aisle.

This cool and creamy pie really does taste exactly like a root beer float. All the notes of vanilla, sassafras, and rich cream come through with a buttery crust to set up each bite for the best ...

Put 1/3 into a separate bowl and stir in 1/4 tsp of root beer extract. Add ½ tsp or vanilla bean scrapings into remaining frosting. Assembly ...

2) Add the root beer extract and mix together. Be sure to check the recipe on the extract and if needed adjust the amounts of root beer extract needed. Every extract is different.

Add the eggs and root beer extract. Combine the flour and baking soda, then slowly add to the mixture. Beat well. On a greased cookie sheet, drop one-inch balls of cookie dough.

When Hires Root Beer stopped selling its extract about 15 years ago, the company received requests from local Plain Sect residents to provide a substitute, recalls Jeff Lehman, current owner of ...

Root beer, as we know it, is a rather modern addition to the world of carbonated beverages. It was first concocted like a tea by Philadelphia pharmacist Charles Hires in 1876.

When Hires Root Beer stopped selling its extract about 15 years ago, the company received requests from local Plain Sect residents to provide a substitute, recalls Jeff Lehman, current owner of ...

Root beer is back. That’s right, root beer -- the dark brown stuff, cola’s elder brother, the foundation of that most perfect of soda fountain drinks: the root beer float.

In this case, that beverage was root beer -- or root beer extract, to be precise -- being sold by a local grocer named Emile Zatarain at the 1899 Louisiana Exposition.

The name “root beer” was coined by Charles E. Hires, a Philadelphia druggist who introduced it to the world at the 1876 Centennial Exposition.