Looking for good home brew root beer recipe.?!
Looking for good home brew root beer recipe.?
Hello, I am looking for a recipe to make homemade root beer enough to fill a full size keg. Any info on where I can get the ingredients would also be appreciated. Thank you.
Answers:
Root Beer Soda
From The Frugal Gourmet Whole Family Cookbook
Time: <10 minutes Serves: 8
Ingredients
Instructions
2 cups sugar
1 cup water
1 tablespoon root beer extract
64 ounces carbonated water 1. Stir 2 cups sugar into 1 cup of water and just heat until all dissolves and is clear.
2. Add 1 tablespoon of root beer extract to complete syrup.
3. Place 2 ounces of syrup in a 12-ounce soda glass.
4. Add a little ice and soda to fill: 8 ounces of soda to 2 ounces of syrup. Stir only once so that you don't work out the carbonation.
Root beer syrup is available at a good pharmacy (no prescription needed of course) but may be cheaper and available in larger quantities if you buy online. Google it.
Source(s):
Frugal Gourmet
Mixing Spoon
6-8 Quart Sauce Pan
Kitchen Funnel
Measuring spoons
Measuring Cup
2-3 gallon Pail
Unscented Bleach
A clean one gallon plastic milk jug
8-16 oz. PET Beer bottles
Ingredients 1 Cup White Table Sugar
1-1/2 Cup Dark Brown Sugar
2 tablespoons Malto Dextrin
1 tablespoon Root Beer Extract
1/4 teaspoon Champagne Yeast
1 Gallon of Cold Water
Clean all equipment with soap and water. Rinse very well.
Prepare a sanitizing solution in a clean utility pail by mixing 2 teaspoons of unscented bleach with 2 gallons of cold water. Soak all equipment including bottles and caps in this solution for at least 10 minutes. Remove your equipment and rinse it well with hot water.
Fill a one gallon container with cold water. Now remove 1 cup of water from the jug and discard it. All of the water required for the recipe is now in the gallon container. Measuring the water in this way will save time and prevent you from adding to much or to little water later.
Place 4 cups of water from the container into a sauce pan and begin to heat it. It is not necessary to bring the water to a boil. Heating this small amount of water will help dissolve the sugars and will make a better soft drink.
Add the white sugar, brown sugar and malto dextrin to the sauce pan and stir until the sugars are completely dissolved. Once the sugar is dissolved turn off the heat.
Add 1 tablespoon of Root Beer Extract to the sauce pan and stir it in.
Add the remaining water to the sauce pan and stir well. Check the temperature of the mixture by carefully touching the outside of the pan. It should be cool to slightly warm. It may be necessary to allow the pan to sit covered for a short time in order to cool.
Open the packet of champagne yeast by cutting off a corner. Measure out 1/4 teaspoon of yeast and add it to the sauce pan. Close the yeast packet by folding over the open corner and sealing it with tape. Store the remaining yeast in the refrigerator for the next batch.
Stir the sauce pan until the yeast is completely dissolved. You are now ready to bottle your root beer.
I gust buy them from A&W.There root beer is great.
I don't know about the keg part, could multiply the recipe...
http://www.wikihow.com/make-root-beer...