Root Beer
#1
Posted 31 August 2012 - 09:53 PM
#2
Posted 31 August 2012 - 10:32 PM
#3
Posted 31 August 2012 - 10:51 PM
#4
Posted 01 September 2012 - 04:07 AM
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Posted 01 September 2012 - 05:06 PM
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Posted 04 September 2012 - 03:50 AM
#7
Posted 05 September 2012 - 10:11 PM
Well, there are a couple of options in the instructions:Low calorie - 4-6 tbsp of sugar to each gallon of mix, then add artificial sweetener to taste.Full sugar recipe - 2 cups sugar per gallon. It says for the natural carbonation using yeast that it makes no alcohol. That goes against everything I know about yeast, isn't alcohol one of the byproducts of the yeast consuming the sugar? Alcohol and Co2???Please Note: This post is mostly speculation and questions by somebody who has never made a soft drink. AKA - FWIWI thought sodas typically were made with water saturated with sugar. Coke, Pepsi, root beer, all have as much sugar as you can dissolve into a given volume of water.If your recipe is for bottle carbing, wouldn't you assume all the sugar added will be consumed by the yeast andproduce CO2? You wouldn't put 1 lb of sugar in 5 gallons and say, "4 ounces are for carbing, 12 ounces are for sweetening the root beer." If you put 1 lb of sugar in 5 gallons of root beer with yeast and bottled it, you would get gushers and/or bottle bombs.This is why I never made root beer. You can't bottle and carbonate a drink with sugar in it. Or at last sugar that is used to sweeten it. I I could keg, I would use not yeast, add a ton of sugar and force carbonate.To answer the OP, I would make the root beer, add zero sugar and taste it. If it need sugar, I would add it.
#8
Posted 05 September 2012 - 10:32 PM
There is sweetening and there is carbonation. You can't tell the yeast to eat only the first 4 ounces and then stop and leave the last couple pounds for sweetening.Two cups per gallon? That is way more sugar than used to prime a beer. Way more sugar = way more carbonation = explosive.Yeast will consume sugar and one of the byproducts is alcohol. At 4 ounces per 5 gallons, that is almost no alcohol. Some? Yes, but not enough to be a distraction. "Regular" apple cider can have some alcohol, but so little nobody worries about it.If they tell you to use 2 cups per gallon, there is no way you should put that in a bottle. For carb in a keg with a good auto pressure release valve.Well, there are a couple of options in the instructions:Low calorie - 4-6 tbsp of sugar to each gallon of mix, then add artificial sweetener to taste.Full sugar recipe - 2 cups sugar per gallon. It says for the natural carbonation using yeast that it makes no alcohol. That goes against everything I know about yeast, isn't alcohol one of the byproducts of the yeast consuming the sugar? Alcohol and Co2???
#9
Posted 06 September 2012 - 04:05 AM
#10
Posted 06 September 2012 - 01:29 PM
So do I just use the amt of sugar they say or back it off some being I'm force carbing?I made up a batch of rootbeer a couple years ago and accidentally left it in my basement a few weeks force-carbed up. Evidently there were a few yeasties that got in there..... it started seeping from the pressure relief. I thought the valve might have been bad so I sat the keg in the sink and released pressure to swap the lid. I was greeted by about a phone booth's worth of foam. once I got the pressure down I removed the lid and dumped it, more incredible foam.Now they get force carbed overnight after being mixed up and go in the fridge the next morning.
#11
Posted 06 September 2012 - 05:24 PM
doesn't really matter. only say a couple percent of the sugar is for carbonation.So do I just use the amt of sugar they say or back it off some being I'm force carbing?
#12
Posted 19 December 2012 - 12:22 AM
Edited by Braindead, 19 December 2012 - 12:26 AM.
#13
Posted 19 December 2012 - 10:14 PM
Took me awhile, but I done did find most of the clan.Holy crap!! Braindead!!!!!
Edited by Braindead, 19 December 2012 - 10:15 PM.
#14
Posted 19 December 2012 - 10:29 PM
Pretty tuff the past 5-6 years, but trying to climb back up out of the hole. Trying to get in touch with my Bud Hightest, that's what led me here the Hightest Honey Haven web site. I lost touch with him, and trying to see how he is doing and trying to back into some home brewing again. How have you been Bud?Welcome to our new home! How has life been?
#15
Posted 20 December 2012 - 07:04 AM
I recognize your name from the board of verde. welcome back. always nice to see a familiar face from the days of oldPretty tuff the past 5-6 years, but trying to climb back up out of the hole. Trying to get in touch with my Bud Hightest, that's what led me here the Hightest Honey Haven web site. I lost touch with him, and trying to see how he is doing and trying to back into some home brewing again. How have you been Bud?
#16
Posted 20 December 2012 - 06:17 PM
I'll double that. It's great talking to you again and seeing alot of the old gang here. We need to find HighTest and do a group brew for old time sake?My year has been utter shit. Even the last few days on top of it all.
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Posted 14 January 2013 - 10:17 PM
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