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Apr 6, 2018 · Traditional homemade root beer is made with real roots, herbs, berries, and spices. This fermented root beer recipe is made with a ginger bug!
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Ingredients Used in Fermented Root Beer. Traditional root beer recipes often include a combination of sassafras root, sarsaparilla, wintergreen, licorice, and other botanicals. In fermented root beer, these ingredients serve as the foundation for flavor, but additional sugar and water are added to provide fermentable sugars for the yeast and ...
Jun 28, 2019 · Root beer is a distinctly American drink with a sweet, herbal flavor that's been made since the colonial era. Traditionally, brewers made the drink by fermenting an herbal decoction made with sassafras bark, sarsaparilla root, and other herbs with sugar and yeast to make a naturally bubbly, probiotic soft drink.
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Mar 12, 2024 · The main ingredients in root beer are pretty much the same as any other soda: water, high fructose corn syrup, caramel coloring, and flavoring, both natural and artificial. However, root beer’s unique flavor comes from sassafras, a tree root native to the United States.
Mar 7, 2020 · A favorite fermented beverage in our home is homemade root beer. Root beer is a healthful and very traditional North American beverage. Enthusiasts typically brew it with sassafras bark ( Sassafras albidium ) or sarsaparilla ( Smilax ornata).
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Jan 9, 2021 · The main ingredients in today’s conventional root beer are high fructose corn syrup, an array of artificial flavors, and some CO2 for carbonation. What a shame! Fortunately you don’t have to put up with the chemical-laden drinks that are on store shelves!
But as the two ingredients most closely associated with modern root beer are North American sassafras (Sassafras albidum) and South American sarsaparilla (Smilax sp.), root beer is genuinely made up of uniquely American flavors.
