Home Brew Root Beer

For our Sunday spring brunch, I thought I should brew up some soda. There's nothing particularly new here, but I'm trying for 11 bo...

Basically, another attempt to get the root beer to carbonate properly. It's going into capped bottled since the swing tops are going to...

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...