My son (who hates beer!) is 15 and came up to me a few days ago asking if he could "brew" root beer. So, of course I said sure. All I needed was the root beer extract which I bought at the grocery store. So, now, HE's checking his "brew" a couple of times a day!
It was so much fun, when I have some empty plastic bottles, I'm going to do a ginger ale.
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Congrats Yooper, I tried making root beer a while back, but screwed something up 'cause it never carbonated. After that I gave up considering it isn't cost effective and we don't drink a lot of root beer.
Cheers to ya though.
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Last summer my kids made cream soda...they had a freaking blast rolling the keg back and forth on the kitchen floor to carbonate it. They really enjoyed being part of the process.
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i just made a honey ale spiced with ginger - waiting for it to bottle condition
used honey malt, 3 lbs of clover honey and 3 oz ginger.
right now it has an odd almost stale taste - hopefully it will condition out.
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We used 16 ounce bottles instead of the 2-liter, and he really got into the sanitizing of all the equipment! I used champagne yeast (I always have wine yeast in the fridge). If this works out, we'll get more "into" it, but I'm only out $3.99 for the root beer extract if he doesn't like it.
I have no idea what's in that root beer extract, but I didn't see sodium benzoate on the ingredients list.
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You call me a dog well that's fair enough 'Cause it ain't no use to pretend You're wrong
But when it's my time to throw The next stone I'll call you beautiful if I call at all
i just made a honey ale spiced with ginger - waiting for it to bottle condition
used honey malt, 3 lbs of clover honey and 3 oz ginger.
right now it has an odd almost stale taste - hopefully it will condition out.
That's probably the ginger. Real ginger takes a while to mellow out.
Sample a Canada Dry Ginger ale versus a Vernon's GA. The Vernon's uses real ginger and tastes harsher.
I'm a "bad" influence!
...but I love's him now, hic!! 
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