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Did you know root beer was made by a man who hated beer, and its main ingredient was banned in 1960?
Charles Hires was a devout teetotaler who genuinely believed alcohol was destroying American society. On his honeymoon in New Jersey in 1875, he tasted an herbal tea made from roots and berries by a farmer's wife and had an idea. This was the drink that could replace beer. He spent a year perfecting a recipe from sixteen roots, berries, and herbs, including sassafras, sarsaparilla, wintergreen, ginger, vanilla, and birch bark, packaged it into a 25-cent powder packet that made five gallons of root beer at home, and walked into America's biggest party.
The 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition celebrated 100 years of the United States and drew 10 million visitors over six months. Hires handed out free glasses to anyone who walked past his booth. It was an extraordinary product launch.
Then Russell Conwell, the founder of Temple University and a prominent Philadelphia figure, pulled him ...