Soon, European settlers picked up on the idea. By the 16th and 17th centuries they began to incorporate European brewing techniques into their own, inching us closer to the beverage we have today. Native Americans brewed Sassafras root-derived drinks centuries before the Europeans arrived, but they were probably closer to a tea than a beer. The thing is, historically, root beer was an alcoholic beverage, albeit one with a very low alcohol content. After all, most of us don’t think about it as “beer” at all, since it’s most widely consumed as a non-alcoholic soda beverage. But what about root beer? It has “beer” in its name, but we don’t often think about it in homebrewing discussions. I don’t have to tell you about the stunningly wide variety of beers you can create at home.
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