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how to make root beerHomemade Root Beer
Root beers and soft drinks of many other flavors can be made at home quickly and it is great fun for the kids! Our kits are the highest quality soft drink extracts available and with your sugar and water they make up to 4 gallons. OUR BREWING METHOD uses champagne yeast to produce all natural carbonation in the bottle. Natural carbonation will take two to three weeks and you don't need to be concerned about your drinks containing alcohol. Each bottle will contain less than the amount found in fresh squeezed orange juice. 
 ROOT BEER BOOKS
  
Homemade Root Beer & Soda Pop
by Cresswell. $14.95-
From soda water to sarsaparilla, you'll find easy instructions for more than 60 traditional and modern soft drink recipes in these 121 pages.
   
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SODA FLAVORS
  
Old Fashioned Homebrew Soda Base 2 oz. for $3.95 Makes 4 gallons
Quick, easy and delicious. Includes low calorie and natural carbonation recipes. 
Root Beer
Ginger Beer
Cream Soda
Birch Beer
Ginger Ale
Cherry Soda
Sarsaparilla
Cola
Orange Soda
Raspberry Soda
Champagne Yeast You only need about 1/8 teaspoon of yeast for 1-3 gallons of soda. Each yeast packet contains around 1-1/2 teaspoons.
$.40-each-
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ROOT BEER KITS
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Jim's Root Beer Recipe Kit $7.95-
The recipe for old fashioned, thick, foamy root beer. You get our recipe and instructions along with special ingredients for making four gallons of your own homemade root beer. The recipe kit includes our exclusive Made By Me Root Beer Mug, root beer soda base, malto dextrin, champagne yeast and recipe. You supply sugar and bottles. 
Extra Made By Me Root Beer Mugs $1.75 each-
Basic Root Beer Brewery $19.95-
We've packaged everything you will need to amaze and inspire your children, regardless of how old they are, with homemade Root Beer and many other soda flavors. This kit is designed to introduce you to making homemade soft drinks. You get Jim's Really Good Root Beer Recipe Kit (pictured above) with twelve 16 oz. plastic PET root beer bottles that are kid safe and reusable. No other special equipment is needed. Complete instructions and the exclusive Made By Me Root Beer Mug are included.
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BOTTLES
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16oz. Plastic PET Bottles with reusable screw on caps
24 per case $19.95-
Replacement Plastic Bottle Caps with tamper proof rings. Reusable
24 for $4.95-
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ROOTS AND BARKS
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Cinnamon Sticks 1 oz. $1.60-
Used in spicy holiday ales and ciders.
Sassafras Root Bark 1 oz $2.50-
This is the bark of the sassafras tree and must be used in place af sassafras root. It is not recommended that sassafras root be consummed in any form. Sassafras bark works just as well in any recipe.
Indian Sarsaparilla 2 oz. $2.30-
It is a misconception that sarsaparilla is the primary flavor of the beverage bearing it's name. Sarsaparilla is made from a root beer base to with several roots and herbs have been added. This herb was originally added to help improve mouth feel and head retention, and for it's medicinal properties to cure mouth sores and rheumatism.
Ginger Root 1 oz. $1.60-
Probably the most widely used herb for holiday beers, the rhizome grows in the tropics and was brought to the New World via Jamaica by Conquistadors.
Licorice Root 1 oz. $2.10-
Licorice has been used for everything from coughs to ulcers. It imparts a very characteristic flavor and is very sweet containing glycyrrhizin which is 50 times sweeter than sugar. Do not confuse the flavor of licorice with that of anise, which a poor imitation.
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Dear Leeners, 
I bought some of the supplies to make rootbeer with my biology class to help them study the CO2 production during fermentation. They set up their rootbeer bottles last Thursday. I believe that some of my students added a bit too much yeast because some of the 2L bottles were hard today (Tuesday), in fact one group that used small Gatorade bottles had their bottles swell up out of proportion. I teased them and told them they weren't supposed to make rootbeer bombs. Probably this rootbeer lab is the most fun they had all semester.
Thanks for the fun ideas for the family and class,
Sandra Gibbons
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