Hires Root Beer is a soft drink which is currently marketed by Dr Pepper Snapple Group. The manufacturer considers it the longest continuously made soft drink in the United States; however, Vernor's ginger ale (currently also owned by Dr Pepper Snapple Group) is even older dating back to 1866.
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Famous quotes containing the words root and/or beer:
“I will go root away
The noisome weeds which without profit suck
The soil’s fertility from wholesome flowers.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia?”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)