Root beer was originally made from sassafras ... including options from Appalachian Brewing Company, Pennsylvania Dutch Birch Beer, and Boylan Bottling. Read the original article on Chowhound.

Between the Pennsylvania Dutch traditions ... so why not try it vonst? Don't Edit Root beer from Appalachian Brewing Co. in Harrisburg. ABC is known for its beer but it also brews an exceptional ...

(WHTM) – Pennsylvania’s drink soda (pop) daily percentage is 65.9 which ranks them 19th in the United States. Most people have a favorite soda, and it could be Pepsi, Coke, Sprite, Mountain ...

(Emily Rizzo/WHYY) Festival goers got to taste homemade traditional Pennsylvania Dutch food such as fastnachts, shoofly pie, sausage sandwiches, pickled eggs, potato candies, blueberry schrub, and ...

but it certainly isn’t common there the way it is in eastern Pennsylvania. “Around here, birch beer’s more popular than root beer,” he said. The process of making it these days is a little different.

The roots of the Lancaster County tourist trade, says food historian William Woys Weaver, helped spread both the folklore and “fakelore” of Pennsylvania Dutch ... made out of beer steins.

Here is a small sampling of recipes from William Woys Weaver’s 2013 book, “As American as Shoofly Pie: The Foodlore and Fakelore of Pennsylvania Dutch Cuisine ... Add the beer and whisk ...