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Don't cut anything back the first year. I also would be very careful about cutting too much the second year. The roots are still growing. Third year cut the first shoots that come out. The root boles that are forming are huge after the second year. I had to dig them up and move them. The...

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I would make the following corrections next time. -Use an even bigger yeast starter or just add corn sugar in early stages to ramp up alcohol. -WLP 99 is very estery in my opinion, but manageable. I will use something drier next time and a lot of it. -I would not add any sugar to root beer...

A friend of ours recently had Small Town Brewery's (?) Not Your Father's Rootbeer. She asked if I could do something similar. Being the intrepid home brewer that all of us on this forum are, I said "absolutely or I'll get drunk trying." Well here is what I did. I will say there is not a lot...

Go to www.mrmalty.com and take a look at their yeast cell calculator. The guy who does the website was one of the authors of the book "Yeast". I just finished a 13% abv base for a root beer. Getting the fermentation right was fairly complicated. Good luck

Making the base for a 10% hard Rootbeer. Started with an OG 1.106. After three weeks have it down to 1.059. Planned to get it down to 1.024. No change in gravity in the last 4 days. Roused every day for last week at 65 deg. USed a 2 liter starter of WLP 99 high gravity yeast. Here is what...

I'm in the process of making this right now. A friend had the spechers? in Chicago and loved it. She challenged me to make it. It is quite a multistep project and not very cheap. I am using a very simple beer component to get some body and alcohol. For the test batch I did not do a mash and...