sanity1676
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Ive been searching into brwing hard root beer for a while, and believe i have found an incredibly easy method. I am going start to brew this when i rack my skeeter pee.
basically
this recipe uses 10 cups of sugar, and 2.5 cups of molasses used to make a simple sugar wash. Boil the sugar and molasses together in 4 cups of (tap or any other clean) water till everything is dissolved. then pour into a 5 gallon carboy, add 4.5 gallon of water 3 tablespoons yeast nutrient and pitch your rehydrated yeast (i hope to use lavelin LC-1118). I am going to allow this to ferment to when the bubbles just start to slow, rack to secondary. add 9 tbsp McCormick root beer extract, 2 tbsp vanilla extract, a cup of molasses and 2 pounds of honey, let steep for 3 or 4 days, backsweeten to taste, bottle 1 in plastic, and the rest in glass, when the plastic bottle is firm i will bottle pasteurize. my only concern will be clearing the root beer
basically
this recipe uses 10 cups of sugar, and 2.5 cups of molasses used to make a simple sugar wash. Boil the sugar and molasses together in 4 cups of (tap or any other clean) water till everything is dissolved. then pour into a 5 gallon carboy, add 4.5 gallon of water 3 tablespoons yeast nutrient and pitch your rehydrated yeast (i hope to use lavelin LC-1118). I am going to allow this to ferment to when the bubbles just start to slow, rack to secondary. add 9 tbsp McCormick root beer extract, 2 tbsp vanilla extract, a cup of molasses and 2 pounds of honey, let steep for 3 or 4 days, backsweeten to taste, bottle 1 in plastic, and the rest in glass, when the plastic bottle is firm i will bottle pasteurize. my only concern will be clearing the root beer