Just what the heck is root beer?

[mrSHEiK124]

Tastes like licorice, what the hell is it?

 

[Crusty]

It's good! That's what it is

 

[mrSHEiK124]

And whats this Sarsaparilla stuff?

 

[FoBoT]

Root Beer is a sweet carbonated beverage flavored with sassafras.

Sassafras contains the chemical known as safrole which is has been shown to be a carcinogen in laboratory animals and has been banned by the US Food and Drug Administration. Some commercial varieties of root beer use artificial flavoring agents, other varieties use sassafras extract from which the safrole has been removed. Removing safrole from sassafras extract and verifying that it is safe is a task which is beyond the ability and equipment of most homebrewers. Many home brewers use commercially produced root beer extracts for flavoring their root beer, because these extracts do not contain safrole. Homebrewed root beer is usually sweetened with table sugar (sucrose), and is usually carbonated by adding yeast. Yeast-carbonated root beer contains a small amount of alcohol. Bottles of yeast-carbonated root beer may explode if allowed to ferment too long.

The general process of making sweetend carbonated beverages at home involves three basic steps: Flavoring, sweetening, and carbonating. The home brewer has a number of choices for each step.

The rest of this document is divided up as follows:

Flavoring: Extracts, Sassafras root, Other flavoring ingredients.
Sweetening: Sugars used in root beer.
Bottling and carbonating: Artificial and natural carbonation.
Safrole: Information about the toxic chemical in sassafras.
Recipes: 5 different recipes for root beer from raw ingredients.

 

[jamesave]

have you google it?

 

[Zim Hosein]

Definitions of Root Beer on the Web

 

[imthebadguy]

its just a cool name, to lure kids into thinking that they can have beer

 

[computeerrgghh]

Root beer is just a mix of herbs and stuff. Root beer is good but cream soda is way better.

 

[SKORPI0]

Not sure .... goes back to drink his glass of A&W.

 

[Chompman]

Originally posted by: SKORPI0
Not sure .... goes back to drink his glass of A&W.

:thumbsup:

And root beer is here to stay unlike so many other pop/soda seeing how root beer has been around since 1869.

And to prove my point they had this drink still in deep space nine so another few hundred years this baby will last.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: computeerrgghh
Root beer is just a mix of herbs and stuff. Root beer is good but cream soda is way better.

Why are root beer and cream soda always associated with each other, is it cause they're both in A&W cans that look the same? Cream soda is infinitely better tasting than crap root beer, and now I'm thirsty :laugh:

 

[nageov3t]

crap is what it is

 

[MidasKnight]

Originally posted by: MCrusty
It's good! That's what it is

:thumbsup:

 

[feralkid]

Just FYI, Cream soda = Vanilla Soda.

 

[bootymac]

Originally posted by: MidasKnight

Originally posted by: MCrusty
It's good! That's what it is

:thumbsup:

:thumbsup:

 

[ribbon13]

Sassafras....

Root beer and MDMA. Oh how I love thee sassafras albidum root.

 

[myjaja]

It's planted roots and some beer on the side.

 

[Brutuskend]

On a side note.

Did you know that Sassafras trees have 3 distinctly different shaped leaves on them?

Some with one leaf others with 2 and some with 3.

Only tree I know of that is like this!

My dad and I used to go hunting for Sassafras trees when I was a kid, we would dig up some roots and make Sassafras tea.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Heh, my dad bought some Sarsaparilla instead of Cream Soda on accident, its pretty good, tastes kinda minty

 

[ChooChooChooseMe]

Originally posted by: Chompman

Originally posted by: SKORPI0
Not sure .... goes back to drink his glass of A&W.

:thumbsup:

And root beer is here to stay unlike so many other pop/soda seeing how root beer has been around since 1869.

And to prove my point they had this drink still in deep space nine so another few hundred years this baby will last.

Its called antimatter replicators stupid

 

[feralkid]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
On a side note.

Did you know that Sassafras trees have 3 distinctly different shaped leaves on them?

Some with one leaf others with 2 and some with 3.

Only tree I know of that is like this!

My dad and I used to go hunting for Sassafras trees when I was a kid, we would dig up some roots and make Sassafras tea.

I LOVE sassafrass tea.

It's hard to find.

I guess one could get the root and steep it, but I'm lazy and instead use concentrate.

I've used "Pappy's" (made in Cinncinnati (sp) ) But I found that in Kentucky. (I'm in Arizona)

Any suggestions would be welcome.

 

[Brutuskend]

Originally posted by: feralkid

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
On a side note.

Did you know that Sassafras trees have 3 distinctly different shaped leaves on them?

Some with one leaf others with 2 and some with 3.

Only tree I know of that is like this!

My dad and I used to go hunting for Sassafras trees when I was a kid, we would dig up some roots and make Sassafras tea.

I LOVE sassafrass tea.

It's hard to find.

I guess one could get the root and steep it, but I'm lazy and instead use concentrate.

I've used "Pappy's" (made in Cinncinnati (sp) ) But I found that in Kentucky. (I'm in Arizona)

Any suggestions would be welcome.

Here you go!

 

[PCHPlayer]

What about Birch Beer?

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Must, get, Cream, Soda

 

[TwoBills]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend

My dad and I used to go hunting for Sassafras trees when I was a kid, we would dig up some roots and make Sassafras tea.

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My dad and I used to do the same thing.