Recently splurged on a jug of Sprecher’s Cream Soda mix and made a keg of it. Lo and behold it tastes just like the real thing. But for the money I think I’ll stick to Gnome or Rainbow concentrates for future batches.
Posts Tagged ‘soda’
Sprecher Cream Soda Mix
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010Rainbow Cream Soda
Saturday, October 10th, 2009Made and kegged a two-gallon batch of Rainbow’s Cream Soda and it’s pretty good. Heavy vanilla and honey up front but there’s a small woody/anise thing around the edges mixing it up a bit. Also at the end is an unexpected ginger bite. Not bad for $6.
Sarsaparilla Soda
Saturday, August 30th, 2008Made 6 liters (a Tap-A-Draft’s woth) of Rainbow’s “Old Fashioned” Sarsaparilla Soda today after brewing. I already had the sanitizer mixed up so why not. I used the ingredient ratios recommended in the instructions and the uncarbonated soda tastes pretty good. There’s a good vanilla kick alongside a strong spicy, barky sarsaparilla element.
Root Beer
Monday, May 26th, 2008I made my first batch of root beer today. For 7L I used:
- 3cups cane sugar
- 2oz sarsaparilla
- 0.8oz wintergreen leaves
- 0.25oz licorice root
- 0.5cups honey (added at end of boil)
- 2T molasses
- 0.25t nutmeg
The recipe is a simplified version of this person’s. I boiled for about 45 minutes, cooled, and pitched a little less than a quarter teaspoon of champagne yeast. It tastes pretty good, but perhaps too sweet. Next time I might tone down the cane sugar and bump up the licorice. The sarsaparilla tastes and smells absolutely wonderful! I sourced the licorice, wintergreen & sarsaparilla from Northern Brewer.
Ginger Ale – Now With Lime!
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008Taking an established beverage and adding lime flavor is a popular trend so I decided to follow suit with my ginger ale recipe. In a 6L batch I added the zest of two limes as well as the juice of 1.5 of them (the other 0.5 went into another recipe). Additionally I bumped up the ginger ratio to 3.9 oz/gal (I used 6.1 ounces of peeled root). The batch has a good ginger heat and the lime flavoring is very nice. It’s not as strong as a 7-UP might have, it just provides a nice compliment to the potent ginger flavor.