wintergreen--one of my favorite flavors-- they also make rubbing alcohol with this scent or flavor in it...and tooth paste- and chap stick---and little patches you can stick on to strains and sprains...

sassafrass root is used as a spring tonic in the Ozarks and the south--to cleanse your system and give it a fresh start for the year--

Henry Weinhard's makes a killer root beer and a vanilla cream soda that is delicious.

as for gignger beer--Reed's is the best and the ginger-y-est..they also have apple ginger beer, and raspberry and maybe more....

ginger (when it is dried and sugared- candied) is also said to be a good cure for sea sickness..

I thought a brown cow was when you put root beer and ice cream in the blender and whizzed them up together...when you make a float sometimes you have to pour root beer in the glass several times to be able to melt the ice cream down--they serve it with a spoon and a straw so you can sip root beer and scoop ice cream . there is a double use utensil for sipping and scooping wonder if they call them spaw? or a stroon? (like the spoon/fork combo tool is called a spork)