KFBass
Well-Known Member
my little bro is getting into homemade soda's recently. While ive been brewing for a while, he decided to keep it legal and keep it to the soda's before turning 19 and making some beer. As such, I bought him a root beer syrup extract last time I was at the LHBS.
I'm reading the instructions right now and it sounds like a disaster. Basically it's calling for 8 cups of sugar ~ 4lbs? Then says to add yeast and let sit at room temp for carbing 3 or 4 days. after that move to a cool dark place. To me that sounds like bottle bombs, unless of course that cool dark place is my fridge and means cold crashing.
Maybe 2L soda bottles will hold more pressure then traditional beer bottles and that high pressure environment will kill the yeast?
it's a "old fashioned homebrew birch root beer" extract kit made by rainbow flavors inc. I'm assuming the instructions are fine, since the company is still in business. I just worry sometimes about root beer all over the carpet.
I'm reading the instructions right now and it sounds like a disaster. Basically it's calling for 8 cups of sugar ~ 4lbs? Then says to add yeast and let sit at room temp for carbing 3 or 4 days. after that move to a cool dark place. To me that sounds like bottle bombs, unless of course that cool dark place is my fridge and means cold crashing.
Maybe 2L soda bottles will hold more pressure then traditional beer bottles and that high pressure environment will kill the yeast?
it's a "old fashioned homebrew birch root beer" extract kit made by rainbow flavors inc. I'm assuming the instructions are fine, since the company is still in business. I just worry sometimes about root beer all over the carpet.