When Mark Zuckerberg was creating Facebook in his dorm at Harvard, fellow classmate Stephen Norberg was a few blocks away trying to do root beer keg stands. Saddened they wouldn't let him study his true passion, Stephen spent his college years developing an unusually high sugar tolerance and keen appreciation for craft soda.
In the years that followed, Stephen experimented with unique and controversial brewing methods in his makeshift Thunder lab at home, forcing his friends to sample his soda creations over and over again. Despite many setbacks and failures, like the great root beer explosion of 2012, he upgraded equipment and facilities, moving into rampant commercial production.
Sometimes it's the simplest of men who make the most complicated of flavors.
Over the years, many people have speculated what the secret is to his complex formulas. But according to his 5-year-old-nephew, Freddy, it's not really that difficult: "Thunder Beast tastes so good because it's made with real Thunder."
Here's what the Washington Post has to say about our delicious root beer and about our epic legal battle.