How to Make Old Fashioned Root Beer that Won’t Kill You
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- Опубликовано: 2 май 2024
- Today I will make a root beer from scratch using roots and spices. The main ingredient in root beer however, Sassafras can cause some issues.
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============= Ingredients ==================
40 grams (1.5 oz) Sassafras Root
1 star anise
1 cinnamon stick
20-30 Juniper Berries
1 pinch Cassava powder (optional)
25 grams (.8 oz) Wintergreen
1 kg (2.2 lb) Light Malt Syrup
10 mL (2 tsp) Mollasses
5 mL (1 tsp) Vanilla Extract
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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.
Lies
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.
Looks like @apprentice58 finished Chemisty
@TC Sans i think that might have just been a typo
@@anubis8181 Have you tried googling it? There are also videos on youtube that talk about sterilization and killing germs.
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.
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
Fun fact, one of the things claimed to be a carcinogen in pepper is, you guessed it, safrole...
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!!
@@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
@@nokiatheinvincible1219 clearly............ does pot take away your ability to infer sarcasm?? *vapes my solo*
This guy looks like an 80s coke dealer, solid work my guy.
Pretty accurate considering hes working with sass.. which is used to make another upper
Just by chance he crossed the diamond with the pearl
. He turned it on the world, that's when he turned the world around.
Fortunately the only coke he's dealing is of the cola variety.
Insult him in one line compliment him on the next damn🤣
He also look like that hacker from GTA5, and he kind of sound like him too lol
"I wonder if she's still making that mead with the juniper berries"
Sorry, but you need Alchemy 30 for that.
Funny, when I was a boy, Imperial walls and towers used to make me feel so safe.
I use to be an adventurer like you guys, but I...
Ah, you know the story.
@@sedition4267 "took an arrow to the knee" lol
This guy looks like hes gonna tell Michael the plan for the heist.
*Don’t say anything I don’t know you... or maybe I do I can’t remember*
What?
r/rareinsults
Hahaha
"Hurry up, I don't have all day"
I poured my root beer into a square glass... Now it's just beer... 😢
I... i don't know if I should be angry, upset, or happy
I love randomly running into math jokes in comments sections.
😋😂😂😋
Pi =R2...... no..pi r round!
LOL.
Government: "Wow, sassafras is dangerous!"
Also government: "Cigarettes? Yeah, they're fine."
Well one makes significantly more tax money then the other. We all know how that works.
exactly
@@iamthehype3684 "Vaping? Now that hurts our tax money! Quick tell people how dangerous it is!"
Government: "Crap, sassafras grows in the wild, we can't tax it. Let's say it's dangerous. He he.
Gasoline is pretty general, I think you mean a solvent. Which is done in almost every single “extraction” process.
"This stuff will give you cancer - like, actual, literal cancer"
"I found it in the health-food store"
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.
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
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.
@@lel3450 Your usernames combined could take over the universe
I AM INEVITABLE I know! they need to add cream soda to more restaurants, because it’s so good.
Meg fax
Fatties
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
is it bad to drink or should i take it out of the drink all together just in case
@@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.
"Sassafras is toxic."
"I found it in a health food store!"
Ah yes, poison, the most common thing found in health food stores.
🤣🤣🤣
Yep lol
How?
question if the natives been using this, wouldn't it affect them or they knew what to do with it
Hey, everything's poisonous in the right (wrong?) doses!
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.
your grandma the oldest person alive
I was the same way I grew up digging it up for grandma, and she would make tea for me and gramps.
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
The safrol in sassafrass can be also be used as a precursor in the production of MDMA. That is the real reason it was made illeagal. Many recipies that used sassafrass also contained sarsparilla. Sassafrass can damage your live but sarparilla is a liver protectent that hopefully counters damage to the liver. Many older recipes for root beets were actually "roots beer" because they contained a number of roots, like beets, carrots, parsnips, turnups ets. These roots contain a lot of sugar that the yeasts can feed on with the byproduct of alcohol.
You got a recipe for that MDMA? Asking for uh..... research purposes.
It was made illegal long before MDMA was a thing. Just because dots might connect doesn't mean they do.
@@johnscott8955MDMA was created in 1912 by Merck
Sassafras was banned as a flavor in the 60s. 40 years after the creation of MDMA....
@@johnscott8955right? lmao
Does sarsaparilla have a similar taste?
This is like the green m&m scare.. they found out you had to eat about a truckload to get enough to cause the issues.
What was the green m&m scare?
I believe that was red M&Ms not the green ones
So the red or green color was found to be toxic but only in extreme amounts. Apparently the same thing happened with black Pepper. In that case they liquidated it and injected the pepper into mice.
Damn, me and my cousins used to dig up sassafras for tee all the time as kids.
*tea
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.
Same here lol
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.
So cool, but tea is spelled wrong, LMFAO
If you wish to make root beer from scratch you must first invent the universe.
😁 Sagan 💫
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.
Yes, Hot dogs washed down with a frosty mug of A&W, those were the days.✌️
What the fuck A+W is a restaurant? I always thought that they just made root beer
@@ActuallyRocatex your too young for this video then
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.
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.
I feel like a collab with NileRed would be awesome. He would’ve been able to separate out that safrole like nobody’s business. And he does edible projects a decent amount of the time
Great idea
I think NileRed would absolutely be able to do that but I'm afraid safrole is partially (if not mainly) responsible for the sassafras flavour.
I remember reading somewhere that real beer is actually like 7 times more carcinogenic than sassafras.
Cancer got me acting strange 😝😝😝
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.
Safrole oil from sassafras is also used to make MDMA
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!
This is true, when looking how to filter out Safrole, this is one of the things people were interested in doing with it.
@@FlavorLab best thing is put it in a labelled organic compound waste container then dispose of it.
@@mrslinkydragon9910 lol or just throw it away?
@@ChristopherFranko no because thats also illegal
@@mrslinkydragon9910 I bet youre fun at parties.
*Googles sassafras oil*
>DEA has entered the chat
It's mdma it's good
MDA
@@OinkFanMayne I want some
Dont we all!
@@OinkFanMayne 20$ and a buncha phone calls
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.
wasn't expecting a new video this awesome, and love the history segment!
It's a crime that your channel is underrated
This is absolutely fascinating cooking is basically just another form of chemistry!😄
I'm so glad I found this channel 😁
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
Exactly what I was looking for. Very well done sir, thank you!
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.
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!
Let’s make some together???
Can i just say this channel is beyond amazing.
So excited to make this!
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!)
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.
Back in the '70s, the kids from the neighbourhood would gather in our yard for Victoria Day fireworks. My Da used to make enough root beer for everyone in repurposed beer bottles. We have pictures of a backyard full of kids holding beer bottles. Good memories.
that made me smile 🧡
My new favorite youtube channel! Amazing work! Thank you for all of your videos!
Why does this video look like it was shot in the 70’s?
I just noticed how correct you are
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. :)
Heck, here's the link to the campaign for lols. Turns out it was five months ago.
www.gofundme.com/carbonator
Absolutely love this man i want to make one sooo bad really appreciate you making this video im a big root beer guy thanks again!
Amazing research and product.
Flavor Lab, you rock! I have been researching for years (not actively) for a great homemade root beer recipe and every once in awhile, I search again. This is hands down the best video I have come across. I loved the history and the complete making of segment. A&W has a flavor like no other root beer. Do you have any insight or hypothesis as to what they may be adding to get that unique flavor? I'd love to hear your thoughts. Thanks again!
To me, A&W and many other popular root beers nowadays taste like bubble gum with a prominent vanilla flavor. Recently I've been drinking Abita root beer, from Louisiana, made with cane sugar, and they claim, spring water. At first it didn't taste like the root beer I'm used to, but I came to like it better-- it has more of a wintergreen/licorice/anise flavor, which I find refreshing. Perhaps why I liked Hires root beer, the first root beer marketed in the United States, and the best, which I drink when I was a kid, because it probably still contained sassafras, but seemed to change in the 1970s, which, not coincidentally, was when sassafras was banned. Actually there are different reports of that--most of them say it was banned in in 1960 or 1961. I think there is some confusion as to whether it was sassafras or safrole that was actually banned at different times. So it could have been because they no longer used sassafras that the flavor changed or it could be because they changed ownership and the quality wasn't maintained.
I’d imagine their “secret” to their flavor involves lots of high fructose corn syrup and artificial sweeteners lol.
@@impulse_xs I would use Florida Crystals organic sugar. It's what I use for my coffee.
Personally I'd have favored molasses, as it was a fairly ubiquitous sweetener at that time, albeit a different kind then most commonly used now.
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.
This was my introduction to your channel. Great video. I like the way you explain things, tone and voice, pacing...all of it. I'll be looking for more. I gave a like, btw. Keep it up.
*says Sassafras Roots*
Me: *immediately thinks of the song by Green Day*
Thinks immediately about the song from Tenacious D
@@GUNNYTV omg lol I love that song!
Holy fuck, an enemy stand user!
Gay
Shut the fric kup EMO
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.
if it tastes like root beer than it might as well be :)
How was it? Worth it?
Stickers sound sick amigo, love your channel
Awesome video. Definitely subscribed. Keep it up!
I remember my dad making root beer. He always left it in a pot overnight.
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.
I would love to make this, as root beer is my favorite beverage. Thank you for this, friend!
Thank you for this awesome video!
Hey man have you ever considered making a patreon because I really like your videos and would love to donate.
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.
Fake you lier
Kornis Funny ok kornis
@@kornis666 come on Kornis whats so unbelievable
@@kornis666 some people like videos like this, maybe you should calm your tiddies and let Science People like us, enjoy our videos
Root beer is my favorite drink! I'll have to try this recipe sometime :) (Would love a sticker too!)
Ask and you shall recieve. I will organize them in a few days
You ever try it? Is it amazing?
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 flavorlab@flavorlab.xyz!
@@FlavorLab can i get a sticker plz?
Very informative! Thanks for this!
such an informative video really wan to try it i love root beer and i have tried birch beer which i liked
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
GROWS EVERYWHERE ON MY FARM IN S.E.GEORGIA.
I want to visit said farm now.
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...
@@demonlordotrt754 your spelling makes me think you've lost brain cells
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.
This sounds delicious!
Drank Sassafras all my life but never had problems.
Goes to show the chokeholds this Government has on us.🤔
@Mααrʈεn M Lol, it just might help you with your tiny peepee problem.😂🤣
@Mααrʈεn M Yes it will, and not the only thing longer.
Am one of the first here and I didn't even knew that your channel existed. Pretty glad tho
Thank you!
Nice video, thank you for researching this... i've been looking for a classic southern root beer recipe... you taught me a lot and i appreciate your effort... i currently have a home-brewed IPA bubbling away at home... now i want to make a low alcohol root beer, lol
Hey same here, have you got any tips for home brewing root beer?
BEAUTIFUL!
A&W root beer fresh from the tap...35 cents for a quart. A great memory growing up. The small wintergreen plant is way too small to harvest in large quanties. The wintergreen flavor we're familiar with is actually the oil from Black Birch tree twigs. Scratch the bark and smell the wintergreen as fragrant as the tiny plants growing on the ground.
Would love to get a sticker, and I want to ask where you go about finding interesting recipes to make. Like what resources do you usually use to find the recipes and what is the process for finding video topics?
I assume he randomly comes up with stuff he wants to try it. Then, he may research for recipes anywhere on the internet (In this case, it would've likely been in a fair few journals, as this is 'old' root beer.
This is speculation, and may/may not be correct.
This is correct! I usually wonder how something is made an then follow it where it leads. Sometimes it's really cool!
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Okay, so this is my first comment ever on youtube, since, well the birth of it! I just want to tell you, that you do an awesome job! And thanks to you, I kinda gifted myself a dehydrator and coffe grinder and dried some selfgrown tomatoes.
So, thank you, again and I would love to proudly run with your sticker around :)
This was fun to watch. My grand kids asked me how it was made so we watched together.
Wintergreen is a real thing? I always thought it was a made up breath mint/gum name
Yeah, like orange flavored gum
@@dolphinboi-playmonsterranc9668 Dont you be tellin me oranges are real too!?
Winter green can't be found be the same leaf as mint
Wintergreen comes from the American Native Wild Snowberry, typically found in Minnesota. At least, the flavoring they use for "wintergreen" flavored things, is. The Wintergreen Pine exists as well, of course, as the ingredient he used in the video.
E. G. I think people in the U.S. south call it tea berry.
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
@milkman good point, all in moderation
@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
Thank you for the video. It was informative and entertaining. Well done.
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 !! 👍 👍 🙂
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.
so you want to make juniper berry, herb beer?
Awesome video with a ton of great research and info! Can't wait to try it. If you have any stickers left I'd love to get one:-)>
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 flavorlab@flavorlab.xyz!
love your content and personality bro
Thank you!
thank you, i enjoyed your video. great job!
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?
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
@@skeetersaurus6249 Thank You Wise human
This is what we call “anecdotal evidence” and can be thusly dismissed. Go away, boomer.
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
Makhno Bakunin - no need to be rude.
I heard that the safrole controversy has something to do with it being a precursor to MDMA, the main drug found in ecstasy. Love your channel! Keep it up!
also... can I sticker? C:
This is true, Safrole is a precursor to MDMA, it is probably the reason it has stayed banned. Thanks for the support, stickers are inbound but will need a few days to get organized.
Both root beer and mdma are gifts form god, where root beer is obviously being much healthier :D. If only they allowed to add Piperonal to ice creams... Another chemical that's a gift from heaven. Looks like a lot of the mdxx stuff is awesome.
Yeah ive always heard this is the real reason sassafras is banned. Also why certain preparations of MDMA is referred to as 'sass' or 'cherry coke' (it also smells like it)
You can also use it to make MDA which is pretty nice but toxic as well
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The videos are great and stuff but omg how soothing is your voice! Subscribed. 😅
Very informative. Cool stuff to know about. I used to enjoy birch beer and sarsaparilla from a local bottler. Since both flavors are so similar to root beer, I always wondered what the difference was. Now I have an idea. Thanx.
I only remember root beer from CoD BO double tap root beer.
Might be because I’m 15 and European...
@Matthew Lawton i have no idea. I just know regular beer.
@@matthewlawton9241 That's Dandelion and burdock and it's only in Great Britain.
When the guy talks it looks like he is lip syncing with someone else’s voice.
Aaron Janx because you heard his voice prior to seeing his face, common phenomenon
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
Visna Sous 😂😂😂🇺🇸
He's Rita Repulsa's son.
@@cambad9900 LOL
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..
dude this is awesome
love the vids and would love a sticker! don't poison yourself any more!
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 flavorlab@flavorlab.xyz!
4:00 this guy looks like Lester from Grand Theft Auto V
I'm glad I'm old enough to have tasted the real root beer with sassafras . It did have a better taste and the poscicles they made with it were great.
Love that Virgil’s root beer. It truly is heavenly
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
I didn’t know Lester could make root beer
Arrayz Beatz LMAO IM 💀
Zark 😂😂😂
I have to try this recipe!
Fantastic video, as always
Thank you!
Just hand over the Blue Bell and no one gets hurt...
@Originz Fishing ever hear that story about opinions and assholes?
We all have them.
@@kelseydonoghue158 ha haaaaaaa! And they all stink.. 😂
Why do you look like an older William Osman
I was just thinking this. The voice does not match the face lol
Love the Lüttje Lage reference ❤️
You deserve a million subs. I've never had root beer but this looks tasty
I advise you have one if you enjoy sodas. They are delicious, and have a really unique taste.
I believe I've had something somewhat similar to what was made here -- it was kind of a heavy, cola-like ginger beer, colored black. Tasted medical and delicious.
Also yes, flavor lab certainly deserves tonnes of subs
That’s why my mint gum tastes like root beer
wut
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.
Pardon me, just gonna crack up about you getting worked up about safrole but say nothing about all that methyl salicylate in the wintergreen...
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.
I'd love the sticker but it might be difficult in the same way obtaining sassafras root in Europe will; but I'll definitely give this a go if I manage to get ahold of the components.