Hires Root Beer used a small child in a bib and a distinctive type style for the word Hires. In 1915, they used the googly-eyed man called Josh Slinger, the soda jerk. He was indeed googly-eyed.

Root beer is back. That’s right, root beer ... The name “root beer” was coined by Charles E. Hires, a Philadelphia druggist who introduced it to the world at the 1876 Centennial Exposition.

Due to its name, the frothy head when it's poured, and the flavor you can't quite put a finger on, people often wonder if ...

Hires Root Beer used a small child in a bib and a distinctive type style for the word Hires. In 1915, they used a googly eyed man called Josh Slinger, the soda jerk. He indeed was googly eyed.

Okay, sure, there’s Coca Cola — but 10 years before there was, Philadelphia druggist Charles E. Hires introduced his all-natural Hires Root Beer to the world and launched the soft-drink biz.

In 1876, Hires introduced his beverage to the public at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition as "root beer." By 1890, his sales grew and in 1893 he mass-produced root beer ready-to-drink in ...

Everyone's got a favorite root beer, but which one is truly the best of the best? We tasted a bunch of popular root beer brands to find out once and for all.

While these root beverages had been around for centuries, the 19th-century pharmacist Charles Hires is generally credited with the creation of root beer, as he came up with the first marketable ...

Question: Among some things we inherited when a friend died is a white ceramic, hourglass shape item about 14 inches high. Reddish-brown “Drink HIRES it is pure” is printed on ...