Reddit reviews Homemade Root Beer, Soda & Pop

Super-easy ginger ale: a bottle of Trader Joe's ginger echinacea lemon juice and a quarter teaspoon of champagne yeast. Leave it on the counter with the lid cracked for 24-48 hours, seal, and put it in the fridge. Use the dregs to get the next bottle going.

I've been intending to buy this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Homemade-Root-Beer-Soda-Pop/dp/1580170528/

you forgot to promote your book, Stephen Cresswell.

http://www.amazon.com/Homemade-Root-Beer-Soda-Pop/dp/1580170528/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1311734718&sr=8-1

This book is awesome, for those of you that are inclined to try these things.

It's a bit cheaper on Amazon. I like the PET bottles. Do you also sell those caps that let you brew in the bottles? Similar to the normal caps but with a hole in the top and a rubber disk with a pinhole. I used those in the Mr. Rootbeer kit before and love them.

Good info there, man. Thanks. I'll look into all that. The wintergreen root thing came from a book I read when I was 19 and I first got into homebrewing. It was this one: Homemade Root Beer, Soda & Pop https://www.amazon.com/dp/1580170528/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_AVUcvb1G2JXRP
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1580170528/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_AVUcvb1G2JXRP

Sorry for the ugly url. I'm on mobile.

This is the book. I've yet to actually make anything, but I'm going to here once the term ends in 3 weeks. Hope this helps!

It is the same idea as bottle conditioning a beer. You seal it off to air and the CO2 that the yeast produce builds up in the bottle. Homewbrewed sodas usually have a very low alcohol content (>1%) but a little bit is in there due to fermentation. I don't know off the top of my head what yeast to use. You can buy soda making kits that are fairly inexpensive and you can also buy extracts where you basically add sugar and water. I know the yeast we used was cheap and dry (not the liquid yeast starters). We only carbed with yeast once. Since we have a kegorator, we have almost always kegged it and force carbed it. Also here is a link to an excellent book about it: http://www.amazon.com/Homemade-Root-Beer-Soda-Pop/dp/1580170528/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1312215237&sr=8-2