featuring old fashion flavors
old fashioned root beer
sasparilla
traditional cream soda
the best black cherry
birch beer
served in ice cold
tin mugs
The history of Old Fashion Soda:
Small beers are a collection of local beverages made during Colonial times in America from a variety of herbs barks and roots: They included: birch beer, sarsparilla beer, ginger beer and root beer. There are many recipes, early beverages included birch bark, hops, sarsaparilla, wild cherry bark, vanilla beans, molasses and licorice. Many are still used today.
· Root beer has its roots in small beer. Small beer was about 2% alcohol. It acted as a preservative. The small beers were made from the small bits of sugar left in the grains or made with small amounts of grain or lastly it was drunk early before fermentation was complete. You can make root beer at home or for a great science project learning about fermentation .
· Back to the colonists; as they settled in America - the pioneers built homes and of course they baked bread, brewed beer. Not having what they missed from Europe they used what they had - as we mentioned with corn pudding. They used sweeteners such as honey, molasses and cane sugar. They found plants to provide the bitterness and flavor. They used sarsaparilla root, ginger root, wild cheery bark, vanilla bean. As a result we have old fashion soda, Birch beer, Sarsaparilla, Root Beer and Vanilla Soda - today called cream soda, and Black Cherry .
