Homemade Root Beer! [View All]

I almost never allow soda pop in the house. The only exception we have is on special occasions I may spring for a six pack of good quality root beer which my kids love. I can remember when I was a kid, my dad and I used to make homemade root beer, so I decided to give it a try. The results are fantastic and incredibly easy.

I ordered my root beer extract from Zatarains, but I think when it runs out I'm going to try some of the Hoptech flavors. A rough guess is 4 oz of extract is going to make about 20 liters of root beer give or take. You can substitute just about any flavoring for the root beer extract and make whatever kind of soda you want. I just followed the directions contained in this website:
http://biology.clc.uc.edu/fankhauser/cheese/rootbeer_jn0.htm

On Dr. Fankhauser's web site, you'll also find directions on how to make cheese, bread, and yogurt from scratch. I really like some of his methods and I'm going to give more of them a try.