Homemade Sunset Sarsaparilla! Fallout New Vegas | How to Drink

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I'm heading back to the Mojave and deep into the weeds of Fallout New Vegas to make my very own Sunset Sarsaparilla. This episode owes a lot of credit to ‪@GlenAndFriendsCooking‬, his work on homemade root beer, sarsaparilla and ginger bug were huge influences on this one, so thank you Glen!
So diving into this one, I wanted to think about what would make "Sunset Sarsaparilla" unique and different from simply standard Sarsaparilla. Fallout Lore tells us that Sunset got started in 1919, the same year as A&W Rootbeer, which makes it frankly, old. That's right up there with some of the oldest bottled soft drinks around. Moxie is another very old soft drink, deriving it's primary flavor from gentian, so thinking about the tastes in the market place at the time, maybe Sunset Sarsaparilla has a tinge of gentian in its recipe, so that's what I've done here. With or without my slight modifications, this recipe will yield an absolutely delicious sarsaparilla syrup recipe, which you can then mix with club soda to create a force carbonated soft drink, or you can ferment in bottles to create a naturally fermented beverage that would have been common in the days of the saloon.
Sunset Sarsaparilla Syrup
All by weights, not volume:
40 g. or 1.4 oz. Sassafras Root
15 g. or .5 oz. Sarsaparilla Root
5 g. or .2 oz. cinnamon stick
10 g. or .35 oz. licorice root
1 g. or .04 oz. gentian root
450 g. or 16 oz. demerara sugar
1000 g. or 35.26 oz. water
boil till water is dissolved
let steep 10-20 minutes
cool & strain & bottle
Fermented Sunset Sarsaparilla
1 part Syrup
3 parts water
2.5 oz. or 75 ml. per 2 liters of batch
mix thoroughly
add 3 drops acid phosphate per bottle
bottle & cap
let ferment at room temperature as desired
arrest fermentation by refrigeration
Ginger bug
approx. 50 g. or 1.75 oz. chopped ginger
top with water
3 or 4 tablespoons sugar
mix thoroughly
leave at room temperature to ferment
add sugar & ginger daily for a week
arrest fermentation by refrigeration
Forced Carbonated Sunset Sarsaparilla
1 part syrup
3 parts club soda
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