I remember the ice cold glass bottle.  The sweet bubbly root beer contained within.  12oz of the best tasting drink I’ve tasted.  Charles Elmer Hires introduced the first commercial brand of root beer in the year 1875.  He wanted to name the product “root tea,” he branded it as “root beer” to sell it among the coal miners of Pennsylvania.  Sadly Hires Root Beer has been discontinued in California for decades.   Over the years I’ve tried to find solace in other root beers.  I’ve tried Shasta root beer, the generic super market versions, A+W, Mug, and Barq’s which is my current favorite.  They aren’t as good as Hires.  I’ve gone…