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#1 2004-03-12 10:35:24
- Palomar
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Re: Homemade Beverages
[http://www.acplace.com/alstuff/rbeer.htm]Click
*Has anyone here ever made homemade root beer? A franchise restaurant in my hometown made it fresh every day...marvellous! I'm considering making my own, since I can't find any homemade around here.
What about ginger beer? I've never had it.
I've had sarsasparilla...didn't care for it. :-\
I've seen kits for sale on the 'net. Which do you think would be better, making it from a recipe or buying a kit?
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Also, what about making stuff like this on Mars? Yeah, I know they'd have to have the wherewithal to make it. Then there's regular beer and wine (I dislike both, of any sort).
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#2 2004-03-12 11:14:18
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Re: Homemade Beverages
[http://www.leeners.com/sodapop.html]Click
*Another good site...includes kits (of many soft-drink types), ordering special ingredients, etc.
--Cindy
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#3 2004-03-12 11:40:43
- Byron
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Re: Homemade Beverages
Sounds like fun 
I'd recommend ordering a kit, at least the first time. I'm almost tempted to try this myself 
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#4 2004-03-12 11:41:44
- John Creighton
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Re: Homemade Beverages
I've only mad regular beer and wine.
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#5 2004-03-29 16:13:18
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Re: Homemade Beverages
Having screwed around with beer, root beer and ginger beer, I can attest that the results are either really good or REALLY BAD. One big variable is the water. Find a water source that works well and stick with it. We once went from boiled tap water to bottled water and completely lost fermentation on several batches. Lost of bottle water like Dasani remove enough trace elements from the water that the yeast can't grow any more. Alternately, you could use pure water and get yeast nutrient packets. It would be the most reliabel method but probably kind of expensive over time.
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