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After months of messing with it, with crazylawnguy and aruzinsky's help I finally came up with pretty much the same recipe. Last night I tried this out with my friends, and they all enjoyed it and ag ...

For anyone curious, I just tried steeping sarsaparilla and licorice just below boiling for 10 minutes, and it seems to have helped the taste by quite a bit. I don't really notice any nasty bark after ...

You guys have been great. Thanks for the help. Crazylawnguy, I don't know if I have ever tried steeping it for that short of a period, so I will try that. And I've never thought of grinding them. I ...

Thanks Aruzinsky, you've being a great help. Hopefully this will help all of us other root beer newbs as well.

But, modern root beer has few natural ingredients and those natural ingredients are e ...

I have sassafras, and I use it sometimes, but mainly I'm not using it because I'm trying to reproduce a modern, commercial root beer flavor. I sometimes throw it in, but I haven't quite perfected how ...

I've been trying for a while to brew root beer from roots with not that much success. Putting lots and lots of wintergreen in and little or no other ingredients seems to be the only way to make it ta ...

Dishwater in a glass, then squeezing it up has been one of the things I do to clean, and it seems to be ok. I haven't tried bleach though.

Thanks for the help you guys. By the way, aruzinsky, I ...

I've recently been trying to make my own root beer recipes using herbs and wintergreen oil, with propylene glycol. I'm using a dropper, since the amounts are very small. Currently when I switch from ...

If you use ale yeast the fermentation should effectively stop once you put it in the fridge.

If you are still worried about it, my understanding from my wine making friends is that adding potassi ...

I've been using plastic with no problems. I think the reason they suggest plastic is because it is very hard to make it explode. If the pressure got too high, I think the weakest point is the seal a ...

Yeah, different yeasts definitely have a different flavor. There are tables of the various yeasts and what flavors they add, which you can find at homebrew stores or probably online. I've tried Coo ...

Well, for anyone who was curious, I tried my brew after 2 weeks in the fridge. It was nice and carbonated, but still had a pretty strong yeast taste. So, I'll probably just stick with force carbonat ...

For anyone who's interested, I tried letting my last batch sit in the fridge for 4 days, and it still had a noticeable yeast flavor and smell. My beer drinking friends actually like the taste, but me ...

Good question, and one I'm not sure that I know the answer to, because my root beer hasn't turned out too great yet.

I put my wort + yeast in a plastic 2 liter soda bottle and squeeze it daily to s ...

I'm new to root beer home brewing, and I just want to say that this hobby is completely awesome. I don't even care how my root beer tastes, I just like being able to tell people that I brew my own ro ...