Looking for a hard root beer clone.

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mrshaund

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Would like to try a 3 gallon biab hard root beer clone for the wife, if anyone has any good ones they would like to share.

Thanks
 
To be honest, I'm not quite sure how ALL home made root beer avoids being alcoholic. Lets look at the recipie. 1 bottle Hires root beer extract. 5 pounds sugar, 5 gallons water, 4 tbsp bakers yeast. It keeps from being alcoholic because you only let it sit warm and "work" for 3-5 days before refrigerating. I bet if you put that puppy in a fermenter and use some beer or wine yeast for 2 weeks you would have what you're looking for. Perhaps the bakers yeast they recommend has a low alcohol tolerance?
 
Most traditional root beer recipes arrive somewhere between 1-3.5%.

I've never really had any of these new hard root beer drinks that didn't taste weird. I'll stick to root beer and whiskey thanks.
 
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