Root beer? Riiiight…
I helped Jeff and Hannah (Jeff’s truly accommodating better half) move into a new neighborhood today. The same neighborhood that Joel and I plan to move into in the next few years ? and the neighborhood in which we hope to open our brewery.
Not only was it cool to start to see our vision of a location-based business/life combo start to evolve, but I had a treat awaiting me when I got back home: root beer soda extract!
Monday Night Brewery will soon be venturing into the wonderful land of sodas. Some people may disparage this decision, but keep in mind that this is only an experiment. We want to become more family friendly, so we’re going to see if we can make a decent root beer. I think we’ll be able to brew root beer fairly easily, especially since we already have all of the kegging equipment. We’re going to use extract for the first batch… if all goes well, who knows? And we will also NOT be brewing less beer. That would just be silly.
I’ve found some great information on brewing root beer here and here. But if anyone out there has any tips, lay them on us. We don’t want to blow up anything. (Joel wants to blow up everything).
Sounds like a fine idea. There are people out there who don’t drink beer. Kinda hard to believe, but, alas it is true :-)
Be careful doing root beer in the same system that you put beer. It has a way of hanging around. I would dedicate a keg and plastic lines to soda so you don’t have to worry about it. Because there is nothing worse than root beer in your IPA!
@Jack: Thanks! I think that’s the plan… I’ve read a few horror stories. And since we’ve got like 40 soda kegs I think we’ll be able to find one to dedicate to root beer.
Yeah I used to work at a restaurant and root beer (of all the sodas, especially) sticks to the lines, the hoses, everything…if someone ever accidentally hooked up the root beer syrup to the Coke dispenser the Coke would taste like root beer forever until we got the lines professionally cleaned.
I’m glad you’re not totally scrapping the real beer!
40 soda kegs?!?!? You guys aren’t f-ing around. Ever get them all full? Actually…don’t answer that. Never know who’s reading! If you are filling them all, you are probably breaking the law. Silly laws!