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My dad had an open heart surgery in September of 2011 to replace his aortic valve because of a birth defect. After recovering well and making it through all of the rehabilitation therapy, in March of 2012 he went back into the hospital with a blood infection that had attacked his replacement...

After about a week of drinking, there are some more tweaks I would make: 1) Use champagne yeast instead of baker's yeast. There was a nagging subtle flavor that I couldn't identify, and one of my housemates told me it was yeast. So, the next round I want to try out champagne yeast because of...

You may have added too much yeast. From everything I have read, with sodas like ginger ale and root beer you only need to add about 1/4 teaspoon of yeast for every 4 quarts of liquid. With fermenting beer it is different, since you are giving the yeast a couple of weeks to turn much of the...

The recipe I based it off of was originally a Virgil's clone. It's a lot different than your normal commercial brews. Another tweak I would add to the list on the other thread is to drop the Star Anise from 4 pods to 3 pods, as I've noticed the Anise has a bit too strong of an aftertaste...

I just put up a thread on my experience this past week brewing root beer only using roots, herbs, and spices. I did have a hard time finding recipes, but pieced things together over time and gave it a shot. The recipe still needs a few tweeks, but what I brewed tastes great. I was able to...

Hey guys, I brewed my first root beer this week and was pleasantly surprised with how it turned out. I wanted to share the recipe, and a few tweaks I'm going to try next time around. The recipe is mostly the Virgil's clone that you can find in google, but I supplemented it with some of the...

I'm going to be brewing some root beer and ginger ale soon, do you think a setup like this could work to force carbonate sodas?

Hello Brewers, I'm thinking about brewing some root beer and ginger ale later on this week, and have been looking around the internet for different methods of carbonating 2L bottles. While I could use yeast, it looks to be more trouble than not. So, I had an idea. I saw in one forum...