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silverspoons
Joined: 21 Dec 2010 Posts: 555 Location: Webster NY
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Link Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 8:45 pm Post subject: Fermented Root Beer |
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Since we had such a good discussion about Maple and Birch Syrup Beer, here's a new one.
A local large brewery ( 6th in the nation) just released a 6% bottled root beer. Fermented with Hefeweizen yeast. Sold and labeled as an ale.
It tastes exactly like regular root beer, no alcohol flavor at all. I actually knocked down a full glass like it was water, then they told me it was 6% alcohol.
Has anyone every done this?
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Roadie
Joined: 13 Oct 2013 Posts: 127 Location: Charleston, SC
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Link Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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I haven't tried any yet but my cousin said that "Not Your Father's Root Beer" tastes just like root beer and as I like a good root beer that I should try it. On my list of things to do!
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Creepy
Joined: 04 Feb 2014 Posts: 127 Location: North Chicago Burbs
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Link Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2015 5:58 am Post subject: |
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Roadie wrote: | I haven't tried any yet but my cousin said that "Not Your Father's Root Beer" tastes just like root beer and as I like a good root beer that I should try it. On my list of things to do! |
"Small Town Brewery" brews that up right here in a northern Chicago suburb. They are distributing nearly nation wide in bottles I believe. But if you should find yourself in the Chicago area you have to find it on tap. The bottled version is about 6% but the draft is 10.5%. The stuff is dangerous! Amazingly good. Tastes just like root beer. I went so far as to make a root beer float with it one time. Now that made the alcohol come thru... Tasted like a float from A&W with a few shots of vodka. Drink it straight. Skip the ice cream.
As to how they brew it, no clue. Apparently the Feds went to their brewery one time to observe a brew day because they swore the guys had to be illegally distilling to make that hooch. Turns out, it's beer.
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Castermmt
Joined: 03 Jan 2011 Posts: 863 Location: Lowell, In
Drinking: Steelhead Porter, Alt-Toids, Hefty-Weizen, Terry's Kolsch, African Amber, Pumpkin Ale, Double Dog Ale
Working on: Janet's Brown Ale, Terry's Kolsch, Pilsner
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Roadie
Joined: 13 Oct 2013 Posts: 127 Location: Charleston, SC
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Link Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2015 2:51 pm Post subject: |
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Creepy wrote: | The bottled version is about 6% but the draft is 10.5%. The stuff is dangerous! Amazingly good. Tastes just like root beer. I went so far as to make a root beer float with it one time. Now that made the alcohol come thru... Tasted like a float from A&W with a few shots of vodka. Drink it straight. Skip the ice cream.
As to how they brew it, no clue. Apparently the Feds went to their brewery one time to observe a brew day because they swore the guys had to be illegally distilling to make that hooch. Turns out, it's beer. |
i heard that the 10% bomber/draft version is much better than the regular bottle version as they contract brew the normal bottles and something is lost in translation. I'd still like to try it though as I guess the bombers/draft is impossible to find outside of Chicagoland.
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