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Interesting article. I would love to see more "grown up sodas" in the market. Unfortunately it's now dominated by carbonated chemicals, although voting with your dollars would make other companies produce what is in demand. But soda is a hard business, you compete mostly on the shelf space...

No offense was intended towards the FDA. I'm sure they work hard and do their job. I just meant simply that I don't rely or trust government regulatory agencies for accurate information that I'm looking for. Guess I should have been more specific.

I get my main flavor ingredients from essential oils. They are much more consistent for flavor purposes. After that, I add dry herbs for other purposes, medicinal, stabilizing, head retention, creamyness...etc. Although there are some such as sarsaparilla and vanilla that I do like the flavor of...

I usually use this calculator: http://www.brewersfriend.com/brewhouse-efficiency/ Maybe you are talking about conversion efficiency and others are assuming your meaning brewhouse efficiency? If you're hitting 88-89% efficiency anywhere I would say you should be hitting your OG. Or are you...

Although gum arabic provides little in terms of taste, I wouldn't put it past the FDA allowing it to be lumped under "natural flavor" with the argument that it allows the flavors to be tasted. There's many other articles that link gum arabic to Pepsi/Coke products and the reason why they are...

Not sure if anyone recommended. But I grind all my whole leaf hops in a blender. For me, grinding all hops, spices and pretty much anything used in the boil helps to settle it down to the bottom much better during a 20m+ whirlpool. It also helps for the mentioned water absorption problem where I...

Anyone in the DFW area planning to pick up an order with them? I'd be interested in a 50# bag. I rarely make it to Austin, but if I do I'll post here to let anyone interested know I'm going. Thanks for the good find, nice to have a semi-local maltster.

For any interested, right now on tap I have: Continuous Hopped IPA Oktoberfest Belgian White Cream Stout I'll be brewing a session pale ale pretty soon as well, which should be ready then in a couple weeks or so. Any suggestions are welcome, hoping to get ideas from anyone that can visit.

To use the term "non-alcoholic" you must have 0.5% ABV or less. I believe "non-alcoholic" also implies more than 0.0% ABV, which some beers also label, but seem to be more popular overseas. My assumption is that all commercial sodas are 0.0% ABV and don't need to be labeled as such or as...

I finally got a #2 drilled stopper today to try bottling my Root Beer with the BMBF. I think maybe something isn't right with the set up, as the first bottle started filling OK, but then I got a minor eruption. Bottle ~70% filled. After that I put the cane into the next bottle, and without...

I love Ethiopian coffee, but I find the mix of flavors aren't as good in a Stout and I would enjoy the two better separately. Personally I've been dropping a shot of espresso that has cooled into a pint of my Cream Stout in the morning occasionally. I figure it's kind of like drinking my...

Hi all, not sure if this is the right place, but I've been brewing non alcoholic brews (suppose I shouldn't be calling them beer, even though we call it root beer!). In case anyone is interested, I'd be willing share for free just to see if anyone actually likes my creations who also likes...

My original source for oils has dried up. As I had mentioned, they last a long time and some I've had for 10 years. Around 10 years is the max usable life supposedly, but they still have a lot of flavor to me, maybe that rated life is for aromatherapy. I've heard good things about youngliving...

You can find sour cherry syrup at ethnic food stores, here the Persian store has it. Or you could go with a baking flavoring if you want more concentrated cherry flavor. If your looking for coke's recipe, they call the syrup "merchandise 7x"...you can check it out here...

In commercial soda I have the feeling they either lump it in as you mentioned, or they may use a flavoring that doesn't require emulsification. If the synthetic flavoring isn't an oil, it may mix with water. As to your ginger beer recipe, I still think you can get tons of ginger flavor from...

Just wanted to point out that white birch is not what you would want (unless you're planning to build a canoe). The common name for the desired variety is Sweet Birch, Black Birch or Cherry Birch (Latin: betula lenta) and has a similar look overall to white birch but the bark is obviously very...

Sanitization in my opinion isn't as important with soda as hot filling kegs and keeping them pressurized with CO2 while cooling. Otherwise if the seal is good they will generate negative pressure, which while not bad, I find that corny keg main seals aren't usually as strong that direction...

See my root beer recipe here: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f171/andres-original-secret-rootbeer-scratch-no-kegging-yeast-required-482730/ I talk about this in fair amount of detail as I haven't seen anything like it posted online. This should work in most kinds of soda. But I do have to wonder...

First, I just wanted to say that although I considered this recipe secret for a long time, I've learned a lot from HBT and developed many of my non-alcoholic beer recipes using other well-known recipes as starting points and their flavor has inspired me to try opening a zero alcohol brewery (I...

Yes, I have 3 of the perlick flow control faucets, and use them all for soda or malt based sodas. They work amazingly well, and can really improve a pour. The only downside is it will take longer for you to pour than if you had longer line and the flow open more full, or just long line and a...