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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.