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Well I tried out the simple syrup way of doing it, and it ended up coming out fairly close to what I was looking for. It is a little sweet, but I think the lemon juice and switching to brown sugar should make it more like what I want.

Oh and I do think yeast is probably the flavor I was describing, I just don't drink beer so I'm not completely sure.

Sorry I haven't been on or responded, busy between work and my twin 8 month old daughters. Anyway, thank you all for your input, advice, and insight. I do think I am going to try the "simple syrup" style recipe and add it to some carbonated water, and see how it pans out from there. Honestly, me...

Would a brewers yeast help? The yeast I used was just fleischmans active dry yeast. Also, is there another way to get the carbonation? I keep hearing about force carbonation but have no clue what that means or how it's done.

Ok, so I have always been interested in home brewing, however don't like beer, so I decided to try creating my own soda instead. All I have attempted so far is a cream soda which turned out tasting like a slightly vanilla-ie tasting sugar beer... So I took to the internet in search of better...