FERMENTED ROOT BEER: How to Make Homemade Soda with a Ginger Bug

[@CurrentElectrical]

@0:34 THIS is exactly why you have so many returning viewers. Hello from Ontario Canada. Thank you for another excellent recipe and tutorial. I am totally new to all this and you have made it a lot easier to get out of my comfort zone and start a new adventure. Play safe. 😎

[@rachelmalin8851]

This looks so yummy! And easy to make too! 😋 Love your cameo in the 1940s footage 😂

[@TheBruSho]

Haha had to do it!

[@troydaigle1260]

I have always loved good root beer. Thank you sir for your recipee.

[@JodiwithNeye]

Sorry if this is duplicated! This was a great video for a BruSho newbie! QUESTION: If I bottle this for extended periods of time ( lets say several weeks to a month) with the flip tops, do I need to burp it like with Ginger Beer! I am happy to brew-sit, a little burp goes a long way! I let the air out of my ginger bug beer almost daily. TRUST ME, I have yet to loose any natural carbonation! It's truly amazing. I can't wait to see your other videos, as I love my little bug. It's the gift that truly keeps on giving!!!

[@TheBruSho]

Hey! I would say it’s very similar to ginger beer so if you do the burping that is totally fine for this. I will say it will last much longer in fridge and you won’t have to burp as much if you plan to keep it for a long time. But never hurts to burp

[@Grooovie725]

YOu have just made my day!!! I have a ginger bug brewing on my countertop RN!!! ❤

[@annareali8470]

Howdy from Bozeman MT 🤠 I love your style of instruction easy to follow along. I made my first batch tonight 🤎 I was able to find glass gallon containers on Amazon. Looking forward to my first homemade batch and a Root beer freeze!!

[@waaagh3203]

Who admits they're from Bozangeles?

[@tomknight2366]

Oooooh I've looked at the extracts but thought I had to wait to have a keg to try making root beer. Another great use of ginger bug! Love things like this to keep some non alcoholic brews around too, something for the non-drinkers, and for the drinkers after 4-5 glasses of the other homebrew ;)

[@TheBruSho]

Haha exactly my thoughts. A nice break!

[@samsonchazbak5387]

just to let you know "anything" you ferment contains alcohol. less fermentation equals less alcohol more fermentation more alcohol

[@Hellbrews]

Awesome! Now I want this with a chillidog !! Cheers 🍻🍻

[@TheBruSho]

Man sounds great! I had a place when I was young I used to go all the time for a mug of root beer and a dog

[@nicholass1218]

Can you please link you keg and any tools need for that process? Ty!

[@samuelgates5935]

Did you read the ingredients in the "root beer" extract? Caramel color, artificial flavor, sulfiting agents, FD&C RED Lake

[@Bk-uc8fe]

Love all your videos on fermented drinks besides beer.

[@TheBruSho]

Thank you! I really enjoy them too. A nice break from the higher alcohol stuff and easy to make

[@difsadlmensenada2188]

In Los Angeles you can find spices, herbs and roots at herbs of Mexico in East LA or Huntington park

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

That looks really good Trent! I like the idea of adding ginger to it!

[@TheBruSho]

Thanks! I think it really highlights the flavors. I’ve been really enjoying these ginger bug recipes

[@tjf42193]

Mountain Dew was my favorite! Love to see a Mountain Dew fermented drink video?

[@CarlPapa88]

😄 Yeastie Boys. That's good stuff. I think thia brew jumped to the top of my to-brew list.

[@TheBruSho]

Haha enjoy it’s a fun one to make!

[@ElementaryBrewingCo]

Looks super refreshing!!!

[@TheBruSho]

You should make some for the fam!

[@PartyTimeBrewing]

Like the old timey effects (could have upped it by riding an old timey bicycle into the scene one handed with a root beer in the other). Looks delicious. Cheers!

[@TheBruSho]

Haha shoot I knew it was missing something!! Ha

[@Jason__________]

Dude you crack me up! @35 seconds 🤣

[@ThisGuysThoughts]

Greta video and information. I enjoy a good root beer from time to time.

[@TheBruSho]

Thank you, yeah I’ve been enjoying it as a break from alcohol. Scratches that itch

[@TheAlchemistsBrewery]

Impressive video editing!

[@TheBruSho]

Thank you! 🍺

[@thehoppyhour6297]

Mr Pibb was / is my favorite. Can you send me a link to that plastic growler?

[@TheBruSho]

Mr Pibb is great, and yeah I just updated the links in the description, including the 1 gallon jar fermenters!

[@skylovecraft2491]

Where can i buy sassafras root? Im in ontario canada

[@archbishopgregori3642]

Trent, I just watched the video on How to Make Homemade Soda with a Ginger Bug, the one for Fermented Root Beer., and I plan on trying it in a couple of days. In the video, you showed a fermenting keg. What type of one gallon keg would you recommend, for someone like me who is retired and living solely on a very small monthly social security security check. I had been using jars and bottles, but have ended up with too many bottle bombs and jars breaking.

[@TheBruSho]

Thanks for watching! I have a little 2.5 gal keg I got off Amazon. It was about $70 when I got it. But well worth it. Check my 3 day cranberry cider video for a link to it! Good luck

[@lyndaharper5164]

Will fermentation stop if left more than 3 or 4 days? Can you add sugar to get it going again?

[@andysantillan5632]

Love this

[@TheBruSho]

Cheers Andy!

[@wolfy1987]

Love the vid. I have rootbeer syrup. Maybe I'll give this a try

[@FJlittlebluerose]

How was it?

[@lescobrandon1011]

Couldn't a person just use some tipple of ale yeast? Would that increase the abv?

[@markknudsen1755]

Very cool! Wondering, have you done (Coke) Cola variant?

[@Fordop87]

Looking forward to brewing some root beer! I have had trouble getting my ginger bug to work. It's like it always goes rancid. I have an off topic question though. What music are you using in this video. The surf rock is so cool. Lol

[@TheBruSho]

Haha thanks, it's royalty free stuff from DeWolfe Music/Artlist

[@cadendreyer8585]

Could you make it alcoholic after the 1st fermentation by adding champagne yeast.

[@TheBruSho]

Sure I would just add more sugar to raise the original gravity before dropping in yeast

[@cadendreyer8585]

Ok👍 thanks for the tip.

[@billmthacker]

If i pitchedbrewers yeast or wine yeast would this kick up abv%

[@TheBruSho]

Yes it would!

[@bharatkhatwani9677]

Can I lower alcohol levels by decreasing quantity of Sugar as I want to keep alcohol levels very not more than 1%.

[@TheBruSho]

Yep, just use less sugar!

[@spencerbarr4638]

Any idea what amount of alcohol (if any) is created during the fermentation? Thinking of making this for the kiddos...

[@deathatthefeast5326]

He said less than 1%. Anything under 2 honestly is not noticeable.

[@xanadu6802]

This is amazing! Did you happen to take the ABV? If not, what do you think it was?

[@TheBruSho]

I didn't but I would guess under 1%

[@alanizako]

Do you keep the ginger bug at room temp or in the fridge?

[@TheBruSho]

Room temp during fermentation. Fridge for long storage

[@pattayaguideorg]

Great vid Trent, been wanting to give root beer a go for a while, recently made an awesome Ginger beer and It got me thinking About my childhood, grew up around Bundaberg Australia, famous for its Bundy rum and softdrinks, anyway, they used to brew a softdrink called 'horehound', it was the best drink of all time! Unfortunately the horehound plant was declared a noxious weed and about 20 years ago they stopped making the drink, alot of people are still really unhappy about it, just wondering if you know of it in the States (a beer made from the horehound plant that is), I am sure you would love it.

[@TheBruSho]

I haven't heard about that plant or beverage but sounds really interesting. Actually when researching for this video I found out that sassafras has a component that is carcinogenic and big root beer companies no longer use it, they use some artificial flavor. Interesting how some of these classic drinks have some deadly ingredients.

[@pattayaguideorg]

@@TheBruSho Yeah, the deadly ingredients must kickstart your immune system making you feel better lol, mate, if you could brew some Horehound beer, you would be a legend and bring back the lost brother of root beer and ginger beer, horehound is awesome and needs to be brought back to the eye of brewer's before it is lost forever, please do a little research on this classic drink, your the man to do it, cheers mate.

[@TheBruSho]

@@pattayaguideorg I definitely will look more into it. Thanks for sharing about it!

[@wolfy1987]

@@TheBruSho The study that led to declaration of sassafras as carcinogenic was heavy flawed. To get the same results they got in lab rats a normal human would have to drink gallons of rootbeer every day. Not only that, but the oil can be removed without too much trouble. I should mention as well, the study that they did in the 1970s on rats was the only study ever done on sassafras' so-called carcinogenic properties.

[@vaunthompson]

I loved the horehound drinks too..!! (Grew up in Brisbane). I'm trying to experiment to make something like the Bundaberg Sarsaparilla (from scratch). Have you tried yourself? (Not using flavoured extracts)??

[@HungLikeScrat]

I've been wanting to make something like Not Your Father's Root Beer, higher ABV and not much black licorice flavor. The extract you bought, does it have that Barq's bite (that pungent black licorice taste), or is it more like A&W? I hate black licorice, so the less there is the better.

[@TheBruSho]

I hate black licorice too and I found this concentrate to be very good. Doesn’t have that strong anise/licorice flavor. Give it a try!

[@HungLikeScrat]

@@TheBruSho, excellent! I'll definitely pick some up. Thanks!

[@TheBruSho]

@@HungLikeScrat I threw a link in the description if that helps

[@williampennjr.4448]

Every root beer concentrate I could find, including the one in this video contain sodium benzoate. Doesn't that inhibit fermentation?

[@TheBruSho]

Usually that's something I'd avoid for fermentations but it seemed to work out fine in this one

[@77transamguy]

Man that looks good! I’ll have to find that exact you used I’ve used other brands in the past and they tasted pretty fake.

[@TheBruSho]

This one was pretty solid. I have a link to it in the description!

[@codebowl]

What was the ABV of your root beer? I didn't see you use a hydrometer to get the readings. I am DEFINITELY going to have to try this, the root beer float was my FAVORITE as a kid. I have to lookup how you made the ginger bug though :) I don't see it when I search your videos so I guess it is Google time.

[@TheBruSho]

Hey! Check out my ginger beer video. I have a recipe for ginger bug. And I didn’t take gravity readings but if I had to guess this is under 1%

[@codebowl]

@@TheBruSho I will be sure to checkout the video, 1% meh I may have to find a way to get it to at least 5% lol

[@TheBruSho]

@@codebowl haha I mean you can just add brewers yeast and forgo the ginger bug altogether if you want hard root beer ha

[@codebowl]

@@TheBruSho I may have to do that. I certainly would love a root beer that is a few more than 1% lol

[@kidgranberg9800]

cream soda

[@Frank-the-Tank-13]

PBR HARD COFFEE?????

[@TheBruSho]

Crazy!

[@Frank-the-Tank-13]

@@TheBruSho I have wasted so much time and money trying to clone it. Fail every time. Brewed coffee powdered milk and lactose with a wine yeast. How much flavor is there of ginger in this bug?

[@hotlavatube]

I tried a commercial "Hard Root Beer" (I think the Mission brand) and it was so awful. Strong dominant licorice flavor and very astringent. It was so bad, I couldn't finish the 6-pack. Not even ice cream helped.

[@TheBruSho]

Yeah those hard root beers are hit or miss. I plan to try making it on here at some point. Maybe I’ll even get the raw ingredients by then and make it from scratch!

[@hotlavatube]

@@TheBruSho I'm sure you've seen "Glen and Friends Cooking". They have a non-alcoholic root beer recipe they're quite happy with (video on their channel). You'd probably spend about $70 on ingredients, unless you can find a better herb source where you can buy just what you need. I'm not sure how the flavors will come across in the presence of alcohol or if the spices are fermented.

[@just_joosh]

What? A dog n suds reference?

[@TheBruSho]

Oh yeah! You from the Midwest?

[@just_joosh]

@@TheBruSho Lorain, Ohio. The only other one I've seen was in Illinois by the Wisconsin border. I know they were popular in the Las Vegas area too.

[@svenneve]

The reason you have a hard time finding ingredients like sassafras in stores is because it isn't sold as a food safe ingredient anymore, as sassafras is carcinogenic.

[@gabrielleangelica1977]

...and sasparilla.

[@fireworkstarter]

Sarsperilla is just sold normaly. The chemical safrol is banned in foodstuffs and it occurs naturaly in sassafras and so only that ingredient is illigal. Or not to be sold as a food ingredient ​@@gabrielleangelica1977

[@BaronOBeefDip]

Safrole was found carcinogenic at high doses in rats. Thus, it was banned by the FDA.

[@BaronOBeefDip]

It was found to be carcinogenic in rats at high doses. That is why you can't find it in stores anymore.

[@thekiwisage]

it can also be used to synthesize MDMA

[@1noduncle]

Sasafras

[@rickwilliams967]

Dude, ginger ale or root beer. Just pick one

[@TheAlchemistsBrewery]

I would put honey instead of sugar. Just my 2 cents, but I am specialized in ales, not this.

[@TheBruSho]

Sure you could definitely do that

[@roberthart1426]

I don't understand doing the work to create a fermented healthy drink but use the root beer concentrate, that is so unhealthy.

[@doddilbert]

Bro, don't tell people to brew sassafrass root or bark its toxic.

[@TheBruSho]

i didnt, i literally used extract

[@WhatstheDieleman]

I’ve done it straight from the ground and drank 6 bottles years ago. It’s not that bad. It’s not toxic there were studies done with safiol oil claiming it caused cancer.. which pretty much the fda claims almost all nature stuff these days now. Not to mention the testing was done on rats.. so you know how accurate is that source