Grinder12000

Recipes 

Where would I go to look into making RootBeer. is there a boil?? How hard is it??

__________________
Grinders Island Brewery - Pipeline (Batch #)

Primary #1 Hair of the Arm West Coast Blaster - don't ask(89)
Next up - Award winning Dbl Chocolate Stout Batch #4 (90) On deck - Zythos Pale Ale(91) and then Weizenbock(92)

flyangler18

Recipes 

I've never made rootbeer, but I have made ginger beer (soda) a few times. It's quite simple, and there's gobs of recipes floating around on the internet. Here's one I've made with great success:

This might help: Soda Making - Home Brew Forums

Tonedef131

Recipes 

Don't forget to change out the o-rings in your kegs after the root beer is gone. I know two people who have ruined entire batches of beer because they neglected to do so.

sirsloop

Recipes 

x2... and your beer lines

__________________
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~___//_ ____________________________~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~_/ [][]| | /```\/```\/```\/```\/```\ |~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~_/_______| |____NOW TRIPLE HOPPED______|~~~~~~~~~~
~~~___/[_]| 00 /| | \,,,/\,,,/\,,,/\,,,/\,,,/ |~~~~~~~~~~
~~|___|___|___/_| |___________________________|~~~~~~~~~~
~~|=(*)[________]==(*)(*)=| \________/=(*)(*)=|~~~~~~~~~~

samc

Recipes 

My LHBS has a pretty good instruction sheet for soda making - just the facts
Bottling Soda Pop

Nurmey

Recipes 

Here you go. Everything you need to know about making root beer.

As part of a well rounded philosophy of life, I believe that it is important to never close out a day without learning a lesson. Today I was fortunate enough to have learned several, which I share with you now, in no particular order. For those who were unaware, Troy, April and I made some homemade Root Beer on Saturday.

• Root Beer is sticky.

• Before attempting to serve homemade Root Beer, it is important to have well constructed tapping gear.

• 30 feet of hose connected to the tapper still produces pure foam at 40 PSI.

• If you think the connection is tight enough, it isn’t.

• 40 PSI is a lot.

• The spectacle of a beer volcano (a good story in its own right) pales before the sheer awesome power of a Root Beer detonation.

• My kitchen has many nooks and crannies where sticky stuff can drip.

• My kitchen will forevermore smell of Root Beer.

• The CSI shows are right. If a person’s body is in front of an explosion, you really can find a “blast shadow” where the body absorbed the impact, thus protecting things in the “shadow.”

• Root Beer is cold.

• 40 PSI, applied to a 5 gallon keg, is sufficient pressure to accelerate Root Beer to transonic speeds.

• My butt will block a Root Beer detonation quite well.

• Root Beer hurts.

• Root Beer is sticky.

• Root Beer is not recommended as a body wash.

• Electronic items and Root Beer Bombs do not mix.

• When cleaning Root Beer, do not stand in one place too long.

• Root Beer dries FAST.

• Root Beer, when dried, can be used as a virtually indestructible cement.

• Aerospace firms should investigate the sticky power of Root Beer for purposes of bonding composite parts of high-performance aircraft.

• Root Beer adheres to socks just as well as to shoes.

• Do not plan on getting anything else done on a day when you have a Root Beer Bomb.

• My refrigerator needed new art work anyway.

• If you are going to have a Root Beer explosion you will be very lucky if, by pure chance, you are standing next to the keg when it happens.

• If, by chance, you are not standing next to it, the Root Beer will KEEP exploding until the CO2 runs out.

• The CO2 will NOT run out if the pressure canister is still attached to the keg.

• 40 PSI is a lot.

• Once you have done the dishes and they are dry, put them away immediately. That way you won’t have to wash them again should a Root Beer Bomb detonate in your kitchen.

• Burning Root Beer does not smell as good as you might think or hope.

• It is impossible to get ALL the Root Beer off of electric burners.

• Burning Root Beer generates smoke.

• I’m not even sure I like Root Beer.

__________________
Batch 1 Brewing
The American Revolution would never have happened with gun control.

Yooper

Recipes 

Being as childish as I am, I laughed again at Nurmey's root beer experience.

I'm not a huge root beer fan, but we've had good luck. Well, except for the root beer jello (too much maltodextrine, apparently) that is. An extract, some sugar, and either yeast or a keg set up is all you need!

__________________
Broken Leg Brewery
Giving beer a leg to stand on since 2006

Nurmey

Recipes 

Funny thing is we will be making it again this weekend. We will however make SURE the taps are attached with very good clamps.

__________________
Batch 1 Brewing
The American Revolution would never have happened with gun control.

Hammy71

Recipes 

The kegging sounds scary....I think I'll just stick with just bottling my root beer. Kids love having some of Daddy's "brew". No boil... just extract, sugar, yeast....wait 3 weeks...

Hetuck

Recipes 

Nurm.....your root beer experience nearly caused me to hydrate my monitor with the orange juice I was trying to drink while reading.

Just remember next time you make root beer....if you think the seals are tight enough, they're not