How to Make Old Fashioned Root Beer that Won’t Kill You

[@Geraki0n]

The alcohol concentration of beer isn't enough to kill pathogens actually. However, during the production of Beer you have to boil all of the water. And that *does* kill off the water borne pathogens.

[@anubis8181]

Lies

[@SubCapt]

Indeed the alcohol content in small beer is not enough to kill off bacteria or even stop their growth. The boil is an additional safety factor, but quite a few ancestral beers across the world are not boiled and still safe to drink. They're not necessarily hopped either, which also would be an additional factor, from 10-12 IBU up. The main safety factor here is the acidic pH. Most pathogens (bacteria that cause disease) can't develop in acidic environments below pH 4.6 (and before you ask: viruses are even more fragile). The target pH for beer, would be around 4.3, even is they don't taste sour. Sour beers such as traditional lambic can go all the way down to 3 or so. Which means beers are pretty safe just from the fermentation, just like joghurt, sauerkraut, kimich and such.

[@corysmith8956]

Looks like @apprentice58 finished Chemisty

[@ashamoosmith5805]

@TC Sans i think that might have just been a typo

[@genericusername8337]

@@anubis8181 Have you tried googling it? There are also videos on youtube that talk about sterilization and killing germs.

[@thomabb]

I remember when I was a teenager there was a big story about how scientists discovered black pepper was a carcinogen. Being inquisitive, I hunted down the study paper. They were liquefying black pepper and injecting it into the veins of rats. Thus began my lifelong journey of being a skeptic.

[@Grewyn7]

Just shows you how science and statistics can be tilted in whichever direction you wish. I dont consider anything "settled". Keep testing and questioning everything

[@mokutomedia1253]

Fun fact, one of the things claimed to be a carcinogen in pepper is, you guessed it, safrole...

[@myceilauniverse9096]

Orginal studies on marijuana toxicity was with monkeys.. they strapped facemasks on and pumped pure cannabis smoke into their lungs with no 02... until they died... took around hour until they died... was it o2 starvation or marijuana overdose?? Definitely overdosed.. THE DEVILS LETTUCE WILL TAKE YOUR SOUL AND BODY!!

[@nokiatheinvincible1219]

@@myceilauniverse9096 umm I smoke a lot and never overdosed lol I think it was the o2 starvation but what do I know I'm just a pot head

[@azerohiro]

@@nokiatheinvincible1219 clearly............ does pot take away your ability to infer sarcasm?? *vapes my solo*

[@eneira0827]

This guy looks like an 80s coke dealer, solid work my guy.

[@OinkFanMayne]

Pretty accurate considering hes working with sass.. which is used to make another upper

[@TigerGreene]

Just by chance he crossed the diamond with the pearl . He turned it on the world, that's when he turned the world around.

[@TheoZaHero]

Fortunately the only coke he's dealing is of the cola variety.

[@UnitedNationXScar]

Insult him in one line compliment him on the next damn🤣

[@nine24one1]

He also look like that hacker from GTA5, and he kind of sound like him too lol

[@Gary-Eng]

This guy looks like hes gonna tell Michael the plan for the heist.

[@awooga64]

*Don’t say anything I don’t know you... or maybe I do I can’t remember*

[@M0rzone]

What?

[@ReplayStation]

r/rareinsults

[@abdul4717]

Hahaha

[@LatinaCreamQueen]

"Hurry up, I don't have all day"

[@suddenshadow]

"I wonder if she's still making that mead with the juniper berries"

[@eveakane6563]

Sorry, but you need Alchemy 30 for that.

[@captainkuijt]

Funny, when I was a boy, Imperial walls and towers used to make me feel so safe.

[@sedition4267]

I use to be an adventurer like you guys, but I... Ah, you know the story.

[@TYRANT_GODS]

@@sedition4267 "took an arrow to the knee" lol

[@OMG_ITS_NG]

But... But... But... They got curved swords. 😂

[@damanrando7608]

I poured my root beer into a square glass... Now it's just beer... 😢

[@aethere.mp3190]

I... i don't know if I should be angry, upset, or happy

[@ProfessorKitchen]

I love randomly running into math jokes in comments sections.

[@moonbeamstry5321]

😋😂😂😋

[@timtwohig8040]

Pi =R2...... no..pi r round!

[@bigbluebuttonman1137]

LOL.

[@Darke_Exelbirth]

"Sassafras is toxic." "I found it in a health food store!" Ah yes, poison, the most common thing found in health food stores.

[@heatherheaven8592]

🤣🤣🤣

[@mysmirandam.6618]

Yep lol

[@MooCowPoopPoop]

How?

[@maymay5600]

question if the natives been using this, wouldn't it affect them or they knew what to do with it

[@smartalec2001]

Hey, everything's poisonous in the right (wrong?) doses!

[@DrSpooglemon]

Government: "Wow, sassafras is dangerous!" Also government: "Cigarettes? Yeah, they're fine."

[@iamthehype3684]

Well one makes significantly more tax money then the other. We all know how that works.

[@greenghost7907]

exactly

[@boredgamer7841]

@@iamthehype3684 "Vaping? Now that hurts our tax money! Quick tell people how dangerous it is!"

[@anthonythorp7291]

Government: "Crap, sassafras grows in the wild, we can't tax it. Let's say it's dangerous. He he.

[@ItsOverYT]

Gasoline is pretty general, I think you mean a solvent. Which is done in almost every single “extraction” process.

[@infinite3365]

Oh could you please do cream soda next? It is one of my favorite sodas right next to root beer and dr. pepper. Also I would like a sticker

[@lel3450]

Infinite33 i found you my doppelgänger. I too love cream soda, root bear and dr. Pepper in that order. Hardest struggle is even find root beer in fast food restaurants let alone cream soda.

[@mulethedonkey2579]

@@lel3450 Your usernames combined could take over the universe

[@Meg-ul8nw]

I AM INEVITABLE I know! they need to add cream soda to more restaurants, because it’s so good.

[@idkwhattonamemyself9647]

Meg fax

[@elizabethregina2515]

Fatties

[@tzisorey]

"This stuff will give you cancer - like, actual, literal cancer" "I found it in the health-food store"

[@Orinslayer]

Yeah that's a better description, only place you can find healthy foods, dangerous quantities of specific chemicals in vitamin form and vials of water they call medicine.

[@jesbendova7592]

I used to help my grandmother find and dig up roots for sassafras tea when I was a boy living in Missouri. We drank most of our tea that way. They drank tea made this way with dug up roots their whole lives. My grandparents were born in the late 1800s. I've been drinking it and loving it my whole life. They lived long healthy lives and had no issues with drinking boiled sassafras root. Enjoyed your video. Think I'll make me some today.

[@quintontravis9551]

your grandma the oldest person alive

[@SgtBeetle1]

I was the same way I grew up digging it up for grandma, and she would make tea for me and gramps.

[@valterzc8187]

Here in Brazil people also use sassafras in chimarrão( traditional mate tea) it is not the same sassafras as in the US, but a tree rich in safrole too. As long as I know it is only dangerous in high doses

[@justinland1208]

Damn, me and my cousins used to dig up sassafras for tee all the time as kids.

[@illumanaatiplayz1684]

*tea

[@indiemusicmuncher]

Also don’t worry at all. The amount of safarole in your tea or root beer is such a small amount that it won’t ever hurt you. To give you an idea, if you drank the same amount of beer as the amount of root beer to harm you, you would have died from alcohol poisoning like 6 times over m.

[@kylekauz4384]

Same here lol

[@surprisedchar2458]

Gekko yep, the FDA was known to take a better safe than sorry route over anything shown to be carcinogenic in lab rats, even if the amount they were exposed to was absurdly high.

[@corysmith8956]

So cool, but tea is spelled wrong, LMFAO

[@princeofmadness100]

I remember reading somewhere that real beer is actually like 7 times more carcinogenic than sassafras.

[@jonahszaro3545]

Cancer got me acting strange 😝😝😝

[@zombiefinatic7033]

Yeah and grill charred meat also has a potency of being carcinogenic but that doesnt stop me or applebees from a nice steak now and again. Life isnjust about a little risk here and there.

[@buddyduddyful]

I cheerfully remember when as a child the joyful memory of my family going to our neighborhood A&W drive in and there ordering 4 frosty glass mugs of root beer. Perhaps it was my young pallet at the time, but incidentally no root beer since has been quite as delicious.

[@ericdee6802]

Yes, Hot dogs washed down with a frosty mug of A&W, those were the days.✌️

[@ActuallyRocatex]

What the fuck A+W is a restaurant? I always thought that they just made root beer

[@mikemarks6136]

@@ActuallyRocatex your too young for this video then

[@RedmoonStudiosYT]

Rocatex Yes, their restaurants still exist. I haven’t been to one in years though. i remember liking the cheese curds and they still serve root beer from the tap into frosted mugs. It’s also about region in the U.S. Not age as one comment said.

[@Luda_chris]

There's an A&W in Branson, MO that my family and I visit every once in a while when we take a trip there. As an avid root beer lover, I cannot describe just how delicious their root beer is. I have never had anything as good as their root beer "from the tap." Absolutely love it.

[@rayg7647]

The most prominent reason sassafras is restricted from buying in the US is because safrole is the starting compound for making MDA, MDE, and MDMA... xD

[@crusader_boi440]

is it bad to drink or should i take it out of the drink all together just in case

[@impulse_xs]

@@crusader_boi440 You could just use root beer extract to be safe but I’m pretty sure safrole is in such small trace amounts that it’s safe to drink. Pretty sure beer has more carcinogens.

[@sunnyztmoney]

Safrole oil from sassafras is also used to make MDMA

[@music2thepeople]

If you wish to make root beer from scratch you must first invent the universe.

[@chantalx388]

😁 Sagan 💫

[@Doktracy]

My great aunt used to make real root beer and I got to drink it back in the 70s when I was in grade school. I have lots of wild sassafras trees on my property and have been searching for a good recipe to replicate that wonderflavor. Thank you!

[@stormv7204]

Let’s make some together???

[@ranger7237]

I grew up drinking sassafras all the time so did everyone in my family for generations. Never had any problems because of it. Plus it's some of the best tea you'll ever taste

[@BillGilbert427]

I have been drinking Sassafras tea all my life, and I am 67 years old and in good health. There is NOTHING wrong with Sassafras!!! My parents drank it all their lives, my grandparents drank it all their lives, and so on. Going back many generations. Our family tree has been traced back to before the American Revolution, and I would bet that they all drank Sassafras Tea!! At least since coming to America.

[@FatBoy42069]

Having drank real sassafras root beer my whole life you should be more worried about the baldrick root seeing as it looks a lot like poison hemlock.

[@oukid2633]

wasn't expecting a new video this awesome, and love the history segment!

[@GuitarGuy4647]

*Googles sassafras oil* >DEA has entered the chat

[@dragonballtalk8527]

It's mdma it's good

[@OinkFanMayne]

MDA

[@dragonballtalk8527]

@@OinkFanMayne I want some

[@OinkFanMayne]

Dont we all!

[@dragonballtalk8527]

@@OinkFanMayne 20$ and a buncha phone calls

[@Salmontres]

I don't want the stickers, but I want some of the root beer. Please send it to me in a manila envelope, along with some of the sassafras crystals for additional flavoring.

[@thndrpnts]

I made a sarsaparilla stout with sarsaparilla root. For my 2.5 gallon batch, I added an ounce at 10 minutes left in the hour long boil, and then tinctured another ounce in honey bourbon. After a week of fermentation, I added the entire tincture into the fermenter, and bottled a week later. My main problem with my brew was the use of an English ale yeast that offered too much yeast character, and having too many roasty malts. They definitely masked the sarsaparilla flavor, despite its prominence in the boil and during fermentation.

[@richardpowell4281]

"Safrols may be carcinogenic" **POKES FINGER IN SAFROL CONCENTRATE**

[@aii1717]

*says Sassafras Roots* Me: *immediately thinks of the song by Green Day*

[@GUNNYTV]

Thinks immediately about the song from Tenacious D

[@aii1717]

@@GUNNYTV omg lol I love that song!

[@mynamebejonas]

Holy fuck, an enemy stand user!

[@ayylien6148]

Gay

[@illumanaatiplayz1684]

Shut the fric kup EMO

[@r.n.holmes5625]

This is absolutely fascinating cooking is basically just another form of chemistry!😄 I'm so glad I found this channel 😁

[@gabet3754]

I missed a few steps, now I have cancer and made wood stain.

[@truthinchrist3001]

I made a comment that makes me look like a I shoved the JAB in my face!!

[@jelloz6982]

I remember my dad making root beer. He always left it in a pot overnight.

[@Reub3]

I know a mexican confectionary who makes his own root beer. That the safrol is broken down during the boiling process(45 mins of boiling). I don't know how true this is though. Also you skipped the whole brewing process. Other than that. I'll try out this recipe for sure. Looks delightful.

[@mulethedonkey2579]

if it tastes like root beer than it might as well be :)

[@vhcxhbvg]

How was it? Worth it?

[@pachucodreams]

"indigenous peoples of north america" Liked and subscribed. You alright, man. You alright. *cheers with glass of root beer*

[@billy-mild]

About a year ago, I started a GoFundMe as a joke to raise money to build a carbonator. I never met my goal :P However, this makes me want to cough up the cash to actually build it. :)

[@billy-mild]

Heck, here's the link to the campaign for lols. Turns out it was five months ago. www.gofundme.com/carbonator

[@michaelsorrell601]

GROWS EVERYWHERE ON MY FARM IN S.E.GEORGIA.

[@cheesebandit6148]

I want to visit said farm now.

[@demonlordotrt754]

I have 5 or more trees growing i. My grandparents yard and i loved takin 3 ir more leaves and crushing them up in my hand and brathing deep it smelled so good...

[@dracenas6625]

@@demonlordotrt754 your spelling makes me think you've lost brain cells

[@danpolimac8362]

Hey man have you ever considered making a patreon because I really like your videos and would love to donate.

[@FlavorLab]

Thank you! A Patreon may be underway at some point soon. In the meantime, posting the videos to Reddit (especially r/videos) really reallly helps the channel. Thanks for the support, it really makes it worth it to see nice comments like this one.

[@kornis666]

Fake you lier

[@DarthDerpOfficial]

Kornis Funny ok kornis

[@mulethedonkey2579]

@@kornis666 come on Kornis whats so unbelievable

[@corysmith8956]

@@kornis666 some people like videos like this, maybe you should calm your tiddies and let Science People like us, enjoy our videos

[@francescaa8331]

Small amounts of sassafras once in a while are unlikely to make you sick, unless you allergic to it. And may be some health benefit to it. You can get sassafras in the health food store, as you know.

[@tpe54]

In the 60s around Buffalo NY they used to sell Rochester Root Beer. It was always served in frosted mugs that they kept in a freezer. Like you said it had a herbal medicinal honeyed flavor and was wonderful.

[@FlavorLab]

That sounds like a really special experience. I love hearing stories like this!

[@michaelsorrell601]

Drank Sassafras all my life but never had problems.

[@ericdee6802]

Goes to show the chokeholds this Government has on us.🤔

[@ericdee6802]

@Mααrʈεn M Lol, it just might help you with your tiny peepee problem.😂🤣

[@michaelsorrell601]

@Mααrʈεn M Yes it will, and not the only thing longer.

[@jt-xn8bw]

Ground Sassafras leaves is used in making Gumbo thicker it's called file' gumbo and is so good

[@laurarichards4667]

Oh. Wonderful. Havent had a decent rootbeer since I moved fr Canada 2 New Zealand. Was home in Oct 2018 and shared a rootbeer a day with my dad. Hes now 91.

[@mrslinkydragon9910]

The main reason safrole is banned because it can be made into mdma, if the fda was concerned about carcinogens in food then they would put stricter regulations in the beef industry!

[@FlavorLab]

This is true, when looking how to filter out Safrole, this is one of the things people were interested in doing with it.

[@mrslinkydragon9910]

@@FlavorLab best thing is put it in a labelled organic compound waste container then dispose of it.

[@ChristopherFranko]

@@mrslinkydragon9910 lol or just throw it away?

[@mrslinkydragon9910]

@@ChristopherFranko no because thats also illegal

[@ChristopherFranko]

@@mrslinkydragon9910 I bet youre fun at parties.

[@johndoudna7055]

I really enjoyed the chemistry lesson of separating sassafras saferols from the tea, especially after you tasted it liberally first!! I guess I can blame all my shortcomings in life on the sassafras tea I loved infrequently as a child on a farm many decades ago. Thanks.

[@isabellen.1753]

it's great seeing you back! it was super fascinating to hear about the history behind root beer (sidenote: i'd love to get a sticker!)

[@Eremon1]

Safrole isn't that dangerous. My neighbor has been drinking sassafras tea for over 60 years. He's in his 80's and is very active and healthy. I've always enjoyed the flavor of root beer. I used to think that sarsparilla and root beer were the same thing, but now I know it's modern day flavorings that just make it seem like that. Two totally different plants. Cool video, thanks.

[@showmastercharlie2449]

Could you make birch beer that’s my favorite? I would also love a sticker Because I really like your channel it has a personal feel

[@wendijackson8844]

In East Texas, sassafrass grows wild. I pick the leaves, dry them then grind them into powder for filé in gumbo.

[@quackerjax]

Saffrole isn't that toxic, the level of carcinogen in it isn't really that bad, you'd have to drink a gallon of sassafras tea a day for a couple years to have an effect

[@quackerjax]

@milkman good point, all in moderation

[@quackerjax]

@milkman yeah, but when you start to believe having a crystalline rock by your bed will make you sleep better because (insert spiritual crap about the earth), i feel that kind of inhibits people from trusting judgments you may have made, even if it's about something you're worried about

[@jshicke]

Grandmother used to make Hires root beer at home. You boiled a gallon of water, put it in a jug, stirred in the contents of a packet sold by hires which contained the spices and other flavors, left it in the cellar for day or so to carbonate, and tada, you had root beer.

[@julesinspaaace]

Root beer is my favorite drink! I'll have to try this recipe sometime :) (Would love a sticker too!)

[@FlavorLab]

Ask and you shall recieve. I will organize them in a few days

[@vhcxhbvg]

You ever try it? Is it amazing?

[@FlavorLab]

Hello! I had a major sticker debacle, but a year later they are in. If you are still interested, please send me an email with where to mail this at [e-mail]!

[@Burnie42093]

@@FlavorLab can i get a sticker plz?

[@83quez]

I’m 30 Years old and i remember being in the third or fourth grade and we’d went on a field trip and the tour guide gave us sassafras tea and called it the original root beer . That was bk in North Carolina. It’s crazy it’s banned now lol

[@Dylan069]

4:00 this guy looks like Lester from Grand Theft Auto V

[@kenhutch7727]

From what I've read Wintergreen has the same issues as sassafras when broken down but we still use it. It has not been banned.

[@sidarist]

We have an antibacterial cream in the UK called Germoline. Root Beer tastes and smells exactly like that. Loads of people hate it, but I quite like it.

[@AaronErnst]

When the guy talks it looks like he is lip syncing with someone else’s voice.

[@markmikhail4279]

Aaron Janx because you heard his voice prior to seeing his face, common phenomenon

[@cambad9900]

Mark Mikhail , no its because he sounds like a teenager and looks like a used car salesmen. It’s like an episode of drunk history lol

[@AaronErnst]

Visna Sous 😂😂😂🇺🇸

[@LCFC81]

He's Rita Repulsa's son.

[@TheShizzlemop]

@@cambad9900 LOL

[@eldsdrak]

I have made a few experimental beer brews with bogmyrtle. It was one of the plants used in beer and other alcoholic drinks in europe before we started using hops. In Sweden were I live, it was one of the plants that was used in a herb-/spicemix called grut, gruit or gryt. That was the dominant way to give beers bittering and also add preservatives before hops took over the market. The earliest find in sweden where hops is used is from the 900s, and in the same context there is bogmyrtle, juniperberries, crowberries and other berries. Bogmyrtle have reputation to cause bad headaches. It is not poisonous, but atleast one of the other plants that is commonly associated with grut is slightly poisonous.

[@steveskouson9620]

2 minor suggestions, leave off the cassava starch, and switch your malt to 1/2 wheat malt, and 1/2 amber malt. I would use DME, dry malt extracts. Malted wheat is a well known trick for "head retention." in the home and micro brewing industry. Amber malt, some more malt flavor. (I need to make a 5 gallon batch of this, for my kegerator!) steve

[@m.a.packer5450]

My family has a scandal revolving around rootbeer that folks in my county talk about to this day. I had a great aunt who used to shame folks for getting store-bought root beer, going on and on about how homemade was just so much better, especially her recipe. It was indeed very good root beer, and any event where people brought food, she would bring a giant cooler of her famous homemade root beer. Well, another great aunt went to her home one 4th of July to see if she could borrow something. Went in through the back door and spotted my great aunt pouring bottles of store bought root beer into her cooler and tossing in chunks of dry ice. She never lived it down when word got out

[@karlblume9419]

There was a stand of sassafras in Grummaw's plot. She made root beer every year, really good stuff, bottles lined the walls of her basement. One year, the summer was unusually warm, the bottles popped their hand-applied caps in a series of salvo-like explosions. We kids spent much of our vacation scrubbing the sticky mess out of the basement.

[@skeetersaurus6249]

I'm an old guy that remembers DIGGING UP Sassafras Roots when I was a kid, and making Sassafras Tea in the kitchen! All it took was knowing how to identify the trees, then a small spade and my trusty hatchet...and I'd come toting in a bag of roots! I hit 60, and hear 'the roots are carcinogenic'...ok...well, I drank GALLONS of it in my youth, and no signs of cancer... MILLIONS drank 'Sarsaparilla' (Sassafras Root Beer) in the 'Old West'...and you didn't really hear of a 'cancer pandemic' from the 1800's, did you?

[@skeetersaurus6249]

Addendum: I also want to echo what Collin482 said below, quoting the National Institutes of Health in saying that 'Breathing is a greater risk to safrole exposure HERP index than Sassafras roots are... "Before the 1964 ban in the U.S., a person consuming a glass of sassafras root beer per day for life, would have had a HERP [Human Exposure/Rodent Potency index] value of 0.2% (Ames et al., 1987)." According to the same paper, exposure to typical household air for a day has a HERP value of 0.4%, and a serving of beer has a HERP value of 1.8%. Based on these numbers, I'm comfortable consuming safrole-containing root beer on the odd occasion. toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cpdb/pdfs/herp.pdf

[@orionhearts]

@@skeetersaurus6249 Thank You Wise human

[@Senriam]

This is what we call “anecdotal evidence” and can be thusly dismissed. Go away, boomer.

[@NumbaOne]

I Agree with u, but the part on "cancer epidemic" people didnt live that long back then and its not like today where u get news on some guy in africa coughing, back then it was mostly word of mouth etc, thats why things seem worst now, because we have the means to hear even the small cases and people freaking out makes more money than most other emotions

[@elizabethregina2515]

Makhno Bakunin - no need to be rude.

[@RabornTau]

Your malt will flow faster/easier if you let it sit in warm water for 10-15 minutes and poke a couple holes on the opposite side of the lid.

[@mathiastheapprentice]

I only remember root beer from CoD BO double tap root beer. Might be because I’m 15 and European...

[@mathiastheapprentice]

@Matthew Lawton i have no idea. I just know regular beer.

[@erie3936]

@@matthewlawton9241 That's Dandelion and burdock and it's only in Great Britain.

[@presmasterflash7555]

Love that Virgil’s root beer. It truly is heavenly

[@mithenmedina540]

Am one of the first here and I didn't even knew that your channel existed. Pretty glad tho

[@FlavorLab]

Thank you!

[@DSpeir-pi6tm]

I'm from the southeast also . I love your channel and the fact that you did the historical research . I'm definitely making this . You have a new subscriber . Thank you !! 👍 👍 🙂

[@robertstarkey8677]

Great video. You should try to say "actually" a bit less. Like when you're boiling the water, you say "the next step is to actually boil water" and its like this is you teaching us, the audience, how to do something. We don't have a preconceived notion if how to do this, so "actually" is not needed. Just me being nit picky, but I think it would improve the quality a little bit. Purely constructive :)

[@MNIU_]

Thank you for this recipe I’m buying a soda stream and really wanted a natural root beer this seems like a concentrate I can make and then just make carbonated water in the soda stream

[@ccorbin83]

My mom had some sassafras tea. I didn’t like the taste. I never liked the flavor of rootbeer. I wonder if I omit the sassafras in this recipe, would I find the rootbeer to my liking.

[@ChristopherFranko]

so you want to make juniper berry, herb beer?

[@edhammock3427]

Hello from Tn I am a older man and have been drinking sassafras tea each spring for years more years than you have been around but I don't drink it year round. Thank you for the wonderful video great job..

[@amythompson6869]

My grandpa used to go out & dig up sassafras roots years ago & boil them down to make tea. It never hurt him. I actually remember when they sold it in the grocery store too.

[@abandonwareguru]

Northeast US here, Pennsylvania Dutch Birch Beer gang for life.

[@MichaelSabani]

love the vids and would love a sticker! don't poison yourself any more!

[@FlavorLab]

Hello! I had a major sticker debacle, but a year later they are in. If you are still interested, please send me an email with where to mail this at [e-mail]!

[@doc1439]

I've made rootbeer with sassafras and sarsaparilla root b4. I used sassafras, sarsaparilla, birch, licorice root, wintergreen, star anise, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, allspice, nutmeg, vanilla, and a bunch of honey with a lil molasses and brown sugar. Essentially it was rootbeer mead brewed with champagne yeast to about 18 to 20% alcohol. Safrol never hurt me at all. I just used the regular sassafras and boiled everything. Also I've used juniper berries b4 but I prefer it without. Still good with it tho

[@arrayzbeatz2002]

I didn’t know Lester could make root beer

[@zark6249]

Arrayz Beatz LMAO IM 💀

[@arrayzbeatz2002]

Zark 😂😂😂

[@albasu_]

As someone who grew up hunting down and digging up the sassafras root and would chew on it like candy. I can tell you it's perfectly fine for you

[@teavis2762]

As a kid, my sister and I would always go out to Wako Beach in Michigan and find fresh sassafras roots on the dunes. I aint dead lol. Good times

[@-8_8-]

As a retired home brewer, I'm tempted to make my own LME. Though, if i have to buy it, i think I will try DME, as i can keep it longer. Also, anyone who accidentally poisons themselves for an experiment is a scientist, by historical measures, and worthy of subscribing to.

[@jong.7836]

"actually, I actually drank the actually toxic safrole and actually it didn't actually kill me, actually..." 🙄

[@Jimbowholivesinsoup]

wow man, what effort. Really cool. Live outside US, so some ingredients Ive never heard off, but Ill put my best effort. Thanks once more for Yours !

[@ericclaptonsrobotpilot7276]

Sassafrass is perfectly safe in moderation. You will be fine. That sugar is more carcinogenic over time than saffrole. The FDA makes a big deal out of anything they can. Keeps them in a job.

[@lesterxxx7642]

my grandmother also drank the & made the best root beer. ya would love a sticker. I to got root beer from grandma, as a young boy it was truly the very best. I still have the farm & sassafras trees still grow there today. I'm going to try it. thank you I enjoy this

[@taliesinlabrie9591]

That’s why my mint gum tastes like root beer

[@MooCowPoopPoop]

wut

[@mayathedreamgirl1357]

MooCowPoopPoop Herbs were used in old fashion root beer as mentioned. Mint wasn’t used in the making of root beer, but is considered a herb.

[@MP-rq8fd]

I actually have a new drinking game. You actually have to take a shot every time he actually says "actually". 😂😂

[@TheRusty]

Pardon me, just gonna crack up about you getting worked up about safrole but say nothing about all that methyl salicylate in the wintergreen...

[@bag3lmonst3r72]

"How to Make Old Fashioned Root Beer that Won't Kill You" Well, that's reassuring.

[@chasecuttinkitchen2101]

totally making this. tumors be damned

[@DouglasEKnappMSAOM]

Beer has a much higher toxic HERP index. Skip one beer and drink 5 root beers instead!

[@Shastavalleyoutdoorsman]

Well my grandma made old fashioned sassafras when I was a kid. I drank it a few times and I have not died.

[@tholepin]

It's not toxic, it's a controlled substance because it's one of the main ingredients in mdma.

[@kyleboettcher1276]

I've been drinking sassafras tea by the gallons for 35 years. So far everything fine

[@geoffstockton]

For the last 30 years, I KNEW I was picking up wintergreen in the flavor of rootbeer. Good to know I wasn't crazy.

[@brianfoster4493]

If you want to make root beer from scratch you first have to create the universe

[@lilithbriscoletti7005]

My great grandpa used to make rootbeer from scratch and would serve it out of big milk tins at family gatherings

[@banjofett3949]

I would love to make this, as root beer is my favorite beverage. Thank you for this, friend!

[@DisneyPro664]

Who’s thinking about Stacy Dillsen from Zoey 101 while watching this now?

[@helipilotuh1]

Ha, I made sassafras tea every morning during survival training in the military. Also chewed on the roots to fight hunger. No cancer yet. Not to mention the seasoning file’ that’s used in Louisiana cooking, guess what it’s made from.

[@__user997]

Day 8 of my quarantine.... and this is what's being recommended to me now..... oh god I can't wait to go outside again

[@scuzzyCS]

You never used 'absolute scratch'... liar...

[@forgetnumberone3335]

its about as scratch as you can get lol

[@charliechuckles4271]

@@forgetnumberone3335 where? I saw not one bag of chicken scratch during the entire video.

[@forgetnumberone3335]

Charlie Chuckles bro this dude literally boiled herbs and roots in order to make root beer. what do you want him to do, grow sassafras himself?

[@charliechuckles4271]

@@forgetnumberone3335 it doesn't take all that, just go to rural King and buy some scratch.

[@clydesmith299]

If I want sassafras, I can just go out to the farm and dig some up. It grows wild around here. But you want to chip it before it dries or it's hard to cut.

[@mouse2335]

this some yankee propaganda i tells ya

[@liamsmith1371]

For the bitterness sweetness balance you can use burdock root

[@AngelINTheMatrix]

i promise you won't get sick from the sasafrasse I have been drinking the root tea since i was a kid