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Hello everyone, It's been a long time since I was here last (about 5 years now) and it's insane that it's actually been that long. Life has been pretty crazy and other life things keeping me occupied. Anyway, I am getting ready to brew my "Signature" (The recipe I shared way back then) batch of...

I have been brewing for a couple years now and every once in a while I come across something that catches my interest. When I add the yeast to my brew, I always add the yeast in dry form directly into each bottle. I came across something that made me second guess my method. I read a recipe...

I know that this doesn't seem soda related but I will be using it for my root beer and may cut costs a little bit...maybe. I'm thinking of making my own vanilla extract. I have heard that Everclear is a good alcohol choice for making extracts. However, my little research has shown that Vodka is...

I have noticed that cream of tarter is used in commercially produced soft drinks and in a number of soda recipes. What is it that cream of tarter does for soft drinks?

So I have been trying to think of some other ways to take my root beer up to the next level of amazingness. Rather than adding other ingredients, haven't had much luck in the flavor department on this, I thought I would try something different. Here are some ideas... Make some invert sugar and...

So I cant seem to find an answer for this. In the distant past I had seen a root beer recipe or two that called for cream of tarter. What does cream of tarter do for the root beer?

So Im looking at getting my Sarsaparilla root from a different (cheaper) source than my usual. I noticed though that this new source carries. "Jamaican" Sarsaparilla root in addition to the usual "Indian" root. Now from my other supplier, I think its the Indian I was getting, but what will be...

I have been reading some of the great articles on this site and I have to say that even though I don't brew beer, the whole yeast culturing/rinsing/etc. stuff is kind of fascinating. However, this did raise some questions. I use Red Star Champagne yeast in my root beer. Assuming I can do it, is...

Well I wasn't sure what to title this but that's the best most fitting thing I could think of so here it is. First off its been a while since I was last here and man has it been a great adventure in the root beer world. Well I have nailed down my own recipe. I have been fine tuning this thing...

I have seen a lot of posts here about soda streams. I am wondering though. Are they that great? I would very much like to do a force carb system without dropping crazy amounts of money on it. Are Soda Streams the way to go? Thanks much in advance

So i found out how to make a delicious cream soda and can't stop drinking the stuff. So last night while I was enjoying a tall glass of it and my wife sat across from me drinking sunkist, it hit me. What about an orange cream soda? Here is my question. How would i make that possible? Right now...

I had a bit of a misshap last night. It seems that i may have put in to much yeast into my root beer and 11-16oz bottles had to be dumped, or sprayed rather, down the drain. I like to have my bottles ready.to go in the fridge the same time as everything else. How can I more accurately measure...

Well tonight I made 5 gallons worth of root beer. 3 gallons on what I m calling my "signature" recipe and 2 gallons of what I have named my "Honey Boo Boo Drank." Obviously all my roots showed up today but I am not doing to much experimentation with these this time. I have been without root beer...

I thought I was going to focus on just yucca root, which I have coming Monday, but I also want to include maltdextrine. Now I have two pretty good root beer recipes and would like to improve mouthfeel and head/retention with my recipes. I have been doing some looking on how much yucca root to...

Now I am not a beer drinker and never was so please forgive me if I am not correct in some of my thoughts. I have done some (by some I mean very little) research about Oktoberfest beers and it seems that these beers are heavier than a light beer and have some fall type flavors. Well I have an...

I was wondering what my options may be in reagrds to filtering. I notice that I end up with some real fine particles at the bottom of my bottles even after straing my brew through a fine mesh funnel. I have experimented with paper coffee filters but this takes way to long just to do one bottle...

As you can see this is my first post here. I have been doing some reading on this forum and belong to a root beer forum. In addition to those resources, I have also been doing a bit of research. I am currently on my 3rd batch of root beer and one of them being a failure. I am realy wanting to...