Dstreetbrew
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Any tips on making root beer. I am waiting on the bottles. Just looking for some tips
The recipe calls for 6cups of sugar to 4 3/4 gallons water. That seems like a lot to me, would u say 4-4 1/2 cup would be fine?
Don't use a kit or extracts. Buy the fresh herbs. When I get home from work, I'll post my recipe for you. It's an old style root beer, but it tastes great. Looks like cream soda though.
I am planing on putting the root beer in glas bottles little "nips" for a corse in a beer dinner my resturant is doing. Every thing I read about root beer leads me to believe that I'm gonna have 2 cases of broken bottles from them exploding. Would u suggest letting it ferment in my fermenting bucket with the air lock for about 12 hours befor bottling.
Do you think I will run into any problems with exploding bottles?
1 oz sarsparilla root
1 oz sassafras root bark
1 oz cherry bark
1/2 oz licorice root
From what i've read you'd have to drink over 20 gallons of homebrewed root beer a day to get the levels of sassasfras (safrole) that produced cancer in the FDA's lab rats. Normal beer and wine contain greater amounts of carcinogens...sassafras has been listed as being potentially harmful: roots of sassafras can be steeped to make tea, and were used in the flavoring of traditional root beer until being banned for mass production by the FDA. That is probably why it is listed as for external use only on the web listing.
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