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| Has anyone made homemade beer, wine or root beer? Does anyone have any good recipes and suggestions
Posted: 4/19/2009 1:44:39 PM | I guess this would be considered the "instant rootbeer" another poster mentioned, except it doesnt use yeast or anything like that. I've never personally made this but saw it made at a Girl Scout camporee, and it was delicious...ice cold and frosty.
I'm copying the recipe from a scout cookbook the troop made during camporee.
4 lbs sugar
3-4 lbs, dry ice*
2 ounces root beer extract
4-4 1/2 gallons cold water
Pour extract into a 5 gallon container (they used a cooler with a spigot on the side)
add water and sugar and stir until sugar is completely dissolved.
Add dry ice and allow to bubble for 1 hour. (this is what makes the drink kinda fizzy)
* be cautious with the dry ice and never touch with bare hands, always have an adult do this. :-) ( from the scout book :-)
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| Has anyone made homemade beer, wine or root beer? Does anyone have any good recipes and suggestions
Posted: 7/14/2009 6:35:21 PM | One very important and inexpensive item available at any brew supply or mail order- the airlock, it will keep all kind of bad things from getting into your brew while allowing for the gases produced by fermentation to escape before anything explodes.
Good websit for brew recipes : http://www.realbeer.com/spencer/cats-meow/top_page.html
Best book I've found for learning the basics of brewing from a book : The Joy of Wine Making by Terry Garey. Some libraries have a copy in the cooking section and bookstore will order it for you if they don't stock it.
Have fun and brew safe!
Cheers.
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| Has anyone made homemade beer, wine or root beer? Does anyone have any good recipes and suggestions
Posted: 7/19/2009 6:15:07 AM | | I make my homebrew, sometimes I buy kits. When I do I usually I buy the liquid yeasty. I live out in NJ and there is (hopefully it is still there) homebrew store. The man who runs it is good, I usually just walk in tell him what I am interested in making and he does a good job putting one together from scratch. The darker beers, maple porter, chocolate stout turn out to be the best. | |
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