Root beer and birch beer might look alike, but they're totally different when it comes to flavor, ingredients, and history. Both have been around forever and have that old-school soda vibe, but the ...

Randy Noble has bled for birch beer. About 50 years ago, Noble and a friend followed a recipe for the beverage — made from the sap and branches of the black birch tree — in a well-worn Euell Gibbons ...