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Dad's, the root beer born in a Chicago basement
In the 1930s, Ely Klapman and Barney Berns perfected their root beer recipe in the basement of Klapman's Chicago home. They started selling it under the name Dad's in 1937.
Nearly 90 years later, that taste comes in candy form, in a bag of old fashioned Root Beer Barrels.
A family affair
Dad's played the family card right down to its bottles: for years the brand sold its sizes as "Junior", "Mama" and "Papa", the last one being the big half-gallon. A way of saying root beer is meant to be shared at the table, by young and old alike.
Root beer in candy form
Root beer is that typically American drink with notes of vanilla, liquorice and sassafras, which often puzzles people at first sip before winning them over. Dad's Old Fashioned Root Beer Barrels capture its taste in small barrel-shaped hard candies, to let melt slowly.
Who is it for?
For anyone who tasted root beer on a trip to the United States and wants to find that flavour again, and for the curious who want to try it without buying a pack of cans.