home made root beer?

Anybody know how to make homemade rootbeer? Is yeast used in some way?

I don't drink much alcohol because it doesn't agree with me (I get woozy after one drink... and I just don't like feeling stupid and slow... caffeine is my drug of choice).

A few years ago I used to make a drink called "kvas". I was into experimenting with fermentation, particularly yogurt and yogurt-milk. The kvas is like a beer but you only ferment it for about six hours, the ingredients were bread, active yeast, sugar, raisins, and water... I forgot the exact recipe. You had to refrigerate it and drink it within a couple of days because the yeast was still live- I suppose there is a way to kill the yeast totally?

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magnulus
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Try making Birch Beer instead. No yeast is required.

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BAD's Revenge

Some Kvas types...

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GarrisonHilliard

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, BAD's Revenge vociferated:

}magnulus wrote: }> Anybody know how to make homemade rootbeer?

Yes. Do you want to do extract, or go the all-herbal route?

}Is yeast used in some way?

It can be. If you're trying to make a colonial-style alcoholic rootbeer you'll need yeast. If you want the non-alcoholic soft-drink variety, you can use yeast to carbonate, but I don't recommend it, especially if you are bottling, since it's too easy to end up with bottle-bombs. It's better to force-carbonate with CO2 in a corny keg, and then eithe serve from the keg, or use a CPBF to fill the bottles.

Dr H

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Dr H

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