motochef wrote: |
Hello all, I am a Culinary Arts instructor and we have been trying to make root beer in one of my classes. I have tried one of the recipes from the book Root Beer and Soda Pop Recipes and and it was only fairly successful. My experience was that the Sassafras root was fairly bitter and when we reduced the amount of Sassafras root the bitter taste was not as bad but the taste was somewhat weak. Can anyone share a good root beer recipe where we can start with that has a nice flavor without being bitter? Any help is greatly appreciated. |
Do you realize that regular beer is bitter? Root beer made directly from herbs is supposed to be bitter because the solid constituents of many herbs, such as sassafras, are bitter. Your expectation that root beer should not be bitter was developed from tasting root beer that was made from essential oils and/or flavor compounds. Now, do you see the error in your thinking?
Here is a recipe with a nice flavor that is not bitter:
75 parts per million (ppm) ethyl vanillin
25 ppm heliotropin
25 ppm methyl salicylate
3 ppm dihydroanethol
sweeten, color and carbonate