Hires Root Beer
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Hires Root Beer is a root beer marketed by Keurig Dr Pepper.
Introduced in 1876, it is the longest continuously made soft drink in the United States.
American Trade Card for Hires Root Beer （1894） Hires Root Beer was created by Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pharmacist Charles Elmer Hires.
The official story is that Hires first tasted root beer, a traditional American beverage dating back to the colonial era, while on his honeymoon in 1875.
However, historical accounts vary and the actual time and place of the discovery may never be known.
By 1876, Hires had developed his own recipe and was marketing 25-cent packets of powder which each yielded five US gallons （19 l） of root beer.
At Philadelphia's Centennial Exposition in 1876, he cultivated new customers by giving away free glasses of root beer.
Hires marketed it as a solid concentrate of 16 wild roots and berries.
It claimed to purify the blood and make rosy cheeks.
In 1884, he began producing a liquid extract and a syrup for use in soda fountains, and was soon shipping root beer in kegs and producing a special fountain dispenser called the "Hires Automatic Munimaker." In 1890,
the Charles E. Hires Company incorporated and began supplying Hires root beer in small bottles claiming over a million bottles sold by 1891.
But Hires's choice of name for his product caused a problem: the word "beer" drew the wrath of the temperance movement.
He had his root beer tested by a laboratory, and trumpeted their conclusion that a glass of his root beer contained less alcohol than a loaf of bread.
Hires Root Beer was promoted as "The Temperance Drink" and "the Greatest Health-Giving Beverage in the World".
Hires advertised aggressively, believing "doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You ...
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