outlawed the sale of alcohol . but that didn t spell the end of a brewery that had been crafting tradition since 1845 it just meant we just had to brew things a little differently . our brewery survived those dark days by making non alcoholic root beer and certain other products that may not ha ve entirely been keeping within the spirit of prohibition good sense eventually prevailed of course and taps once again flowed legally across the land . now nearly a century later we re remixing history and saluting our predecessors perseverance and innovation with our first alcoholic craft root beer . over the barrel root beer is batch brewed with the best 2 row malted barley in the world and only the finest real cane sugar and infused with creamy vanilla aromatic nutmeg spicy cinnamon and other spices to be the perfect blend of tradition and flavor . over the barrel root beer . real tradition . real history . unreal flavor . available in 5 unique stlyes . rhinelander hard root beer a heritage root beer content on this page requires a newer version of adobe flash player . this website is the exclusive and official website representing rhinelander brewery . rhinelander brewing company llc 2016