Recent content by bassdokes

So, if I am making root beer, ginger ale, or cream soda. I would follow the recipe, but instead of adding pure cane sugar (which I normally do) I would add gomme syrup that I prepped beforehand. Finish the recipe, pitch yeast and bottle or force carb. Same idea with cream of tartar. Do...

First- thanks to all of you homebrewers who post here. It is time to take home brewing to the next level. I have been brewing sodas just over one year with many excellent batches. I need some info on how much? How much maltrodextrin per gallon of brew. How much cream of tartar per gallon...

Vanilla beans. Natural food, herbal and nutritional stores will usually carry them in bulk. Here is another online source. http://www.chefdepot.net/spices.htm. I just bought half pound. The more you buy the cheaper the bean. I will also use them in root beer, cream soda, and I plan to do a...

You may choose plastic or glass to bottle. Plastic does provide some safety. Those who sell the products will be quick to discourage glass bottles for soda. They must do this for liability reasons, and to sell you empty PET bottles that cost more than soda filled bottles from the grocery store...

Also true that every person who has eaten a cumulative 5 pounds of carrots in their life have died or will die.

Kegger, kegger... Code please. Thanks

I am also interested if anyone can comment on recipes or techniques for soda/root beer from mash.

I would Like to do some sodas from mash. I need some recipes or info. Anyone have links/blog/ideas

You have several options. You can use sarsaparilla root. Anise, Licorice root. Molasses. Wintergreen dried leaves. Vanilla. Birch. Clove. Browse the dry/bulk section of a health natural food store. The blog sodamancy has a virgils clone recipe that Does not use sassafras.