Ciderguy1523
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Anyone try to make hard rootbeer. Just rootbeer a carboy and some yeast ?
I'm in the process of making this right now. A friend had the spechers? in Chicago and loved it. She challenged me to make it. It is quite a multistep project and not very cheap. I am using a very simple beer component to get some body and alcohol. For the test batch I did not do a mash and just used LME and DME. The base was 1.105 OG. The goal after back sweetening was to have a 9% ABV. Used a white labs 99 high gravity yeast in a 2 liter starter. After two weeks in fermenter it is only down to 1.065 and 5.5% Abv. I am not sure if it is stuck yet. Once that gets to about 1.020 I'll kill the yeast and add in the sweetners and herbs. It probably would be a lot simpler to add in syrup, but I decided to go all in. I'll post more as it comes along.
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