Reason: he had just told chemists about his new, cheap, artificial production of three powerful sex hormones (testosterone, progesterone and desoxy-corticosterone), from sarsaparilla root compounds.

It's got an old-timey pop-off top and the brewers use sarsaparilla root, ground ginger and molasses (amongst other ingredients) to achieve that really raw flavor. Killebrew harkens back to old ...

European colonists loved the aroma of the plants and made the first root beer by fermenting low-alcoholic beer and adding ...