“There’s an old-fashioned charm to homemade root beer with its odd array of roots and bark, flowers, leaves and berries.
It, like many other fermented beverages, once enjoyed position as a staple of American cookery.
Water, as you know, was not always potable and raw milk, small beers, cider, perry and other fermented beverages were consumed as the drink of choice – even for small children.
For a time, each community and each family enjoyed a closely guarded homemade root beer recipe…”