I was cooking dinner tonight when I decided to make a root beer. "Woo!" I shouted as I tasted it. Then I realized how funny that really was. I called out to my husband, who was in another room, "I don't think anyone gets as excited as I do about root beer!"
It is kind of odd. One of the young men at my synagogue and I have an on-going conversation about root beer. His, he says, must have licorice in it.
"Ewww!," I responded.
"If there's no licorice in it, it isn't real root beer," he told me.
I will just continue drinking mine, then, fake or not.
I rarely have sugar, so I make mine using white soda, agave, and McCormick's root beer flavoring. I make it and drink it right away -- it's not the kind that ripens -- that always tastes way too boozy to me.
So I had one tonight. What a delight. Good thing it was -- the fish was way too salty, so all I ate was rice and broccoli. The memory of the root beer soothed my palate after the fish disappointment.
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I have never "made" rootbeer. Do you ever just drink it out of a can? It sounds like a good homeschool project.
Hi! It WOULD be a great school project, if you make it for real! Mine is, indeed, faked. If you make it like my first husband's mother does, it is very interesting!
Look at this: http://biology.clc.uc.edu/fankhauser/Cheese/ROOTBEER_Jn0.htm
This is similar to my mother-in-law's recipe. The kind that is ready in hours is not the real thing. (It is similar to mine -- which I prefer -- that I just make and drink.)
The root beer that takes some days to make will taste a bit fermented; that is why I don't like it. I don't like wines, beers, or any other liquors at all.
By the way, Mom uses the root beer flavoring you can find in the spices and flavors area of the baking aisle at many grocery stores. I have found mine at both Fred Meyer's and Albertson's.
Oh, I keep thinking of stuff. Mom has, on very rare occasion, had her rootbeer bottles explode while they were fermenting. Be sure you store them in a cool place that is easy to clean, should that happen(an enclosed area in the garage? Not in a refrigerator, unless it is turned off. In a cardboard box in the garage would be ideal because of easy clean-up, should anything happen).
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