Does Hard Root Beer Exist?!
Old Fashioned Root Beer is a 'Small Beer'!. Yeast is used simply to provide carbonation, and fermantation is ceased with less than 1% ABV!.
Can one keep fermenting Root Beer to produce a more potent version!?
Is there a marketed or craft version of this Hard Root Beer!?
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Can one keep fermenting Root Beer to produce a more potent version!?
Is there a marketed or craft version of this Hard Root Beer!?
Is it any good!?Www@FoodAQ@Com
Answers:
Well, actuall, small beer is really just a weak beer!.
Modern beer brewing uses a process called "sparging", where after mashing the grains, you drain them and then squeeze the liquid out!. Before sparging was invented in the 19th century, the procedure was to mash two or three times, then simply drain off the liquid and do another mash (or finally give the grains to the pigs)!.
The first run, called prima mellior, was strong and full-bodied, and tended to be served at the lord's table!. The last run was small beer, and was often given to servants and children!. The two or three runs were often mixed to create different combinations!.
Root beer is something else again!. It was invented in the 19th century to provide a drink to serve at "Temperance" (i!.e!., Prohibitionist) meetings!. Notwithstanding there was nothing temperate about the Temperance movement!.
Homebrewing root beer works well because--though there is enough sugar to create a decently alcoholic beverage--there are no nutrients to speak of, so the yeast never has enough raw materials to do much fermenting!. If you added yeast nutrient, you would probably get a dry, mildly alcoholic root beer!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Modern beer brewing uses a process called "sparging", where after mashing the grains, you drain them and then squeeze the liquid out!. Before sparging was invented in the 19th century, the procedure was to mash two or three times, then simply drain off the liquid and do another mash (or finally give the grains to the pigs)!.
The first run, called prima mellior, was strong and full-bodied, and tended to be served at the lord's table!. The last run was small beer, and was often given to servants and children!. The two or three runs were often mixed to create different combinations!.
Root beer is something else again!. It was invented in the 19th century to provide a drink to serve at "Temperance" (i!.e!., Prohibitionist) meetings!. Notwithstanding there was nothing temperate about the Temperance movement!.
Homebrewing root beer works well because--though there is enough sugar to create a decently alcoholic beverage--there are no nutrients to speak of, so the yeast never has enough raw materials to do much fermenting!. If you added yeast nutrient, you would probably get a dry, mildly alcoholic root beer!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Sam Adams actually did a 'hard' root beer some years ago but it didn't go over so well!. That's the only commercial example I've ever heard of!. I once tried doing a homebrewed Root Beer Imperial Stout but it just ended up tasting really heavy of vanilla!.
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Yes!. One of the homebrewing magazines did an article on it a few years ago!. I tried to make some once!. Terrible!.Www@FoodAQ@Com