I don't know about you guys, but I love root beer! So much so in fact, that the misses and I are gonna make our own using this recipe, so I thought I would share it with the GP family. Enjoy.

ROOT BEER

1 gallon water
1-1/2 cups molasses
1 tsp. dry yeast
1/2 ounce each of hops, dried burdock, yellow dock,
sarsaparilla, dandelion, sassafras and spikenard roots

Wash the herbs and bruise them thoroughly with a potato masher or pastry blender. Cover with the water, bring to a boil and simmer for 20 minutes over low heat. Strain into a large crock. Add the molasses and cool to lukewarm.

When the mixture is lukewarm, add 1 teaspoon dry yeast and stir. Cover the crock with a cloth and put it in a warm, draft-free place 70-80 degrees F. After 2 hours, pour into clean bottles to within 1/2 inch of the tops. Cap with capper and metal caps,but not corks. Place the capped bottles on their sides in a warm and draft-free spot (70-80 degrees F) for 5 days, then set upright in a cool place.
The root beer will be ready to drink in 10 days.

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OK here is goes for getting rootbeer
Go to store
Open cooler
grab a rootbeer
pay for it


Just joking Fatman thanks for the info

he he he....not funny.
More bang for ya buck, m8, thats the goal.
=)

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or having root beer where you can't just walk down to the store to buy some! thanks fatman - hope i can find those things somehow

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hehehehehehehehe....green...you are one of a kind, my friend! It's great man. LoL

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hmmm that sounds too exotic for me.. isnt traditional rootbeer made from just sasperilla?

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Hobe, I have no idea what real root-beer is made from, but fatmans recipe looks interesting for sure.
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Oh man, I am sorry I didn't update this thread. It turned out really well, but there was a different kind of aftertaste than what we are used to with root beer. It wasn't bad, just....different, lol. I think next time I will include some brown sugar to see how that will affect the taste.

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Do you taste the yeast? Or does it go away... i could understand using those ingredence to make a suyrp and adding to carbonated water.

Sounds good. I think A&W taste the best does the homebrew taste like that? I hate the way barqs tastes and mug is ok. If it wasn't for all the different herbs which probally cost a good buck I would try to make it.

Im not allowed in the kitchen...the fire alarm goes off when I try to cook.

Dude, you forgot to add the marijuana !
Seriously, couldn't you supplement this recipe with ground marijuana instead of Hops ? Just a thought ;>}

10 days with yeast.

So, it's alcoholic?

i like IBC and the ground bud idea seems valid to me, give it a shot man let us know.

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