Old Fashioned Soda Extracts

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Old Fashioned Soda Extracts

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Picked up a bottle of their Sarsaparilla extract on a whim when I was ordering my last batch of beer parts (because I'm 30 going on 90 when it comes to my taste in sweets it seems.)

I followed their recipe and the result tastes good but is pretty flat. Next time I'll try it with ale yeast instead of fleischmann's baking yeast. It's nice to be able to tonic without aspartame or corn syrup though, and doesn't take long at all. One 4 dollar bottle of extract makes 4 gallons of tonic.
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mrzero wrote:Picked up a bottle of their Sarsaparilla extract on a whim when I was ordering my last batch of beer parts (because I'm 30 going on 90 when it comes to my taste in sweets it seems.)

I followed their recipe and the result tastes good but is pretty flat. Next time I'll try it with ale yeast instead of fleischmann's baking yeast. It's nice to be able to tonic without aspartame or corn syrup though, and doesn't take long at all. One 4 dollar bottle of extract makes 4 gallons of tonic.

Where did you get these knowledges? I love carbonated beverages.
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MrZed, I have a (probably highly dangerous) booklet on how to build your own carbonation rig. I haven't tried it, but it looks straightforward.

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CP wrote: Where did you get these knowledges? I love carbonated beverages.
Well the extracts have a piece of paper in it with instructions, it's real simple. Just google "Old Fashioned Soda Extracts". I got mine from Northern Brewer where I order my grain and sundry fermenting goodies from.
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GoDogGo! wrote:MrZed, I have a (probably highly dangerous) booklet on how to build your own carbonation rig. I haven't tried it, but it looks straightforward.

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I'm investing in kegging equipment later this year, and already know how to force carbonate once I have the gear.
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mrzero wrote:
I'm investing in kegging equipment later this year, and already know how to force carbonate once I have the gear.
But not with risky, homemade equipment. That's what makes it COOL.

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CAN'T YOU MAKE MOONSHINE WITH THAT STUFF?...
or is it not the right gear? :partyman:

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Michaelbcn wrote:CAN'T YOU MAKE MOONSHINE WITH THAT STUFF?...
or is it not the right gear? :partyman:
Don't bother. I've been offering him wormwood for years so that he can make absinthe, but he's terminally timid.

I've also offered him achewood so that he can make achewater; same result.

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Michaelbcn wrote:CAN'T YOU MAKE MOONSHINE WITH THAT STUFF?...
or is it not the right gear? :partyman:
You need a still to make spirits.
Stills are illegal for anything but 'making essential oils', without a very expensive permit and a shit tonne of taxes in the USA.
Stills are very easy to make though, but they also have a tendency to explode in very large balls of fire (it's that whole vapourized alcohol + exposed heat source.)

If I happened to live in the right part of the world, though, I might check out a resource like homedistiller.org
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any of you guys drink moxie? I love that shit.

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mrzero wrote: Stills are very easy to make though, but they also have a tendency to explode in very large balls of fire (it's that whole vapourized alcohol + exposed heat source.)
In moonshining lore, that's a lot more rare than the common (and hideous) mash burn. Apparently a big glob of boiling corn mash will really do a number, like napalm.

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moxie is really excellent stuff.
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I've always wanted to get a tattoo of the guy on the can pointing his finger at you. Every year in Maine they do a Moxie festival. I've never been but a friend of mine has won a few of the recipe contests. He had a moxie bbq sauce and a chicken that was baked with a can of moxie inside.

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greystuff wrote:I've always wanted to get a tattoo of the guy on the can pointing his finger at you. Every year in Maine they do a Moxie festival. I've never been but a friend of mine has won a few of the recipe contests. He had a moxie bbq sauce and a chicken that was baked with a can of moxie inside.
Eh? the last time I bought Moxie (years ago) there was just that woman with the sheaf of grain on her shoulder. Hang on.

WTH? I can't even find that logo online now.

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I've never seen the logo of which you speak. However, I have yet to see a can of moxie since I moved to the west coast. In Maine and New Hampshire it's always the same man on that good ole orange can.

Check it right here.

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