Progress Report Recipe Number: 1.0 Batch Number: 1 Stage: Carbonation Elapsed Time: 45 hours Well, the first batch has to be somewhat disappointing. I opened up Bottle #1 and there was no carbonation what-so-ever. The color has continued to mellow towards amber and the floating sediment has arranged itself at 2 particular levels of the [...]

Progress Report Recipie Number: 1.0 Batch Number: 1 Stage: Carbonation Elapsed Time: 35 hours After looking up that tidbit about the foam rings, I went down to check the bottles again to see how things are going. The good news is that the foam rings are gone! In it’s place is a very slight ring [...]

[From "Homemade Rootbeer, Soda, and Pop" by Stephen Cresswell (ISBN: 1580170528) page 97]: “Those who are experienced in making homebrewed beers know that one telltale sign of an infected batch is a ring around the neck of the bottle. While such a ring may also mean your soft drink batch has been spoiled by bacteria [...]

Progress Report Recipie Number: 1.0 Batch Number: 1 Stage: Carbonation Elapsed Time: 10 hours Checked the bottles in the box and things appear to be going very well. The color of the liquid is an orange/amber and is fairly cloudy with slightly pronounced particulate in the solution. There is a partial ring of foam at [...]

Batch Report: Recipie Number: 1.0 Batch Number: 1 # of bottles: 8 (16oz clear EZ-Cap) Recipie 1.0: (From “Homemade Rootbeer, Soda, and Pop” by Stephen Cresswell (ISBN: 1580170528) page 32) 0.25oz Dried Sassafras Root Bark 4qts filtered water 2cups Granulated Refined Sugar (Unknown brand, it’s what I’ve had on hand) 0.125tsp Red Star Champagne Yeast [...]

Shopping List from 12/27/2002: from Midwest Homebrewing and Winemaking Supplies 1 large Tea/Herb Ball ($4.25) [Catalog #6301] 2 rubber stoppers for the Carboy (@$0.99 ea = $1.98) [Unlisted in catalog] Total: $6.23 Comments: There’s always something to be said about convenience. Midwest is right on my way home from work and it just makes it [...]

Ooooo… New look. Very spiffy. I like the way that the Brew Blog was looking, so I figured I’d adopt it more places on my site. Besides, the old design was getting _very_ stale. Tags: brew

Fixed a lot of formatting issue’s with the template. I think it’s likely that I’ll adopt this for my main blog as well. It’s needed an update for quite awhile and now’s as good a time as any. No tag for this post.

How to possibly reduce the incidence of catastrophic carbonation: Adjust the recipie to include a set amount of consumable sugar for the yeast to activate, then sweeten with left-handed sugars (usually known as sucralose). This would essentially make it a “diet” soda, but it should not taste any different than if you had used an [...]

Obviously my previous searches on google weren’t as good as the ones I’m using today. Another link that is quite good for content, though the navigation needs some work. No tag for this post.