It was both sweet and bitter, probably not unlike cough syrup today! The “root” in the name came from its main ingredient, the sassafras root and the "beer" came about as someone changed the original name "tea" to "beer" to make it sound more appealing, even though there's no beer in it.

Ingredients- Carbonated Water, Sugar, Colour: Caramel, Citric Acid, Flavourings, Preservative: Sodium Benzoate

Nutritional- Energy-35, Fat-0 of which saturates-0, Carbohydrates-8.7 of which sugars-8.7
Protein-0 ,Salt-0