Although beer is in the name, everyone knows that there is not an ounce of alcohol in that Mr. Pibb you squirt out of the the soda  fountain. It's always been one of those things that make you say, "Why?"

That's a thing of the past as Bloomberg reported a Wauconda, Illinois brewery called Small Town, is taking its hard root beer, appropriately named, "Not Your Father's Root Beer" and distributing it nationally.

Pabst Brewing and a group of investors purchased the brand earlier this year and it can already be found in over 50 locations on the east coast.

Its key ingredients are a mix of sassafras bark, vanilla, anise, wintergreen, with a 5.9% ABV per 12-ounce bottle.

To really get the good stuff, you still have to go to Chicago as they have the hard root beer on tap wit ha 10.7% and 19.5% ABV. They also have a chocolate, and apple pie flavored beer to complete your childhood nostalgia.

Small Town brewed their first batch of this stuff way back in 2013, but it certainly will be a "thing," as you can be sure beer pong tables across the US will now have hard root beer getting college students wasted.

picthx small town brewery