Home Brew Root Beer

My brother is coming to town, and I thought I should put on a batch of root beer to celebrate. Basically, this is recipe #5, except I'm ...

Walking around my neighborhood last weekend, I walked past several rosemary and lavender bushes and it inspired me to try a new concoction. ...

For Christmas, my dad built me a thermostatically controlled lightbulb and fan so I can carefully control the temperature of the oven at fer...

Since I lost recipe #4, I went back to #3, upped the bitters, as I suggested, and added wintergreen. 4 Tbsp sassafras 4 Tbsp coarse birch ba...

I brought pre-mixed ginger and herbs to North Carolina to whip up a batch of ginger ale while visiting my brother's family. Just had to...

zest of 1 small lemon peel of 2 mandarin oranges 1/3 oz piece of cinnamon bark 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg 1 anise star 1/2 tsp kola nut 1/6 oz fr...

2 1/4 oz. young ginger 6 cardamom pods, broken 2 Tbsp juniper berries 1 tsp white pine bark 1/4 cup yarrow flowers 1 1/2 tsp fresh lemon zes...

A couple weeks ago, I visited the new pizzeria in my neighborhood, Pi Bar . I spied in their cooler a tiny bottle of Fentiman's Ginger B...

So, this batch was so finicky, and ended up taking so long, that I have misplaced the ingredient list. It might be lying around somewhere,...

The ginger beer I posted about a couple weeks ago seemed a little simple to me, compared to the super-simple Trader Joe's based concoct...