Horehound beer or horehound ale is a
soft drink (alcohol-free)
carbonated
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In inorganic ch ...
beverage
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, flavoured primarily with
herbs (principally
horehound), double
hops and
cane sugar
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For human consumption, sucrose is extracted and refine ...
. It is drunk in the southern
United States
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,
Australia and
England
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.
See also
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Beer
Beer is one of the oldest and the most widely consumed type of alcoholic drink in the world, and the third most popular drink overall after water and tea. It is produced by the brewing and fermentation of starches, mainly derived from ce ...
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Birch beer
Birch beer is a beverage, commonly found as a carbonated soft drink made from herbal extracts and birch bark. It was originally made from the extracts of both oak and pine barks (which are sometimes combined). There are dozens of brands of birch ...
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bitter melon
''Momordica charantia'' (commonly called bitter melon; Goya; bitter apple; bitter gourd; bitter squash; balsam-pear; with many more names listed below) is a tropical and subtropical vine of the family Cucurbitaceae, widely grown in Asia, Afr ...
or Goya
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Malt beverage
A malt drink is a fermented drink in which the primary ingredient is the grain, or seed, of the barley plant, which has been allowed to sprout slightly in a traditional way called " malting" before it is processed.
By far the most predominant ...
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Root beer
Root beer is a sweet North American soft drink traditionally made using the root bark of the sassafras tree '' Sassafras albidum'' or the vine of '' Smilax ornata'' (known as sarsaparilla, also used to make a soft drink, sarsaparilla) as the ...
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Sassafras
''Sassafras'' is a genus of three extant and one extinct species of deciduous trees in the family Lauraceae, native to eastern North America and eastern Asia.Wolfe, Jack A. & Wehr, Wesley C. 1987. The sassafras is an ornamental tree. "Middle ...
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Soft drink
References
Horehoundat Botanical.com
*Facciola. S. ''Cornucopia - A Source Book of Edible Plants''. Kampong Publications 1990
*Bown. D. ''Encyclopaedia of Herbs and their Uses''. Dorling Kindersley, London. 1995
*Grieve. ''A Modern Herbal''. Penguin 1984
Soft drinks
Soft beers and malt drinks
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