Incredible Tasting! Root Beer Recipe From Scratch - Glen And Friends Cooking

Our Root Beer Recipe From Scratch - can be naturally fermented or naturally carbonated (a real root beer with alcohol), or as a sweet soda pop syrup that you mix with carbonated water.
This is a traditional base recipe, there are so many ways to make this taste like you want it.

Ingredients:
1L water
35g fresh ginger, unpeeled and chopped
5g cinnamon stick
20g dried sassafras root bark
10g dried sarsaparilla root
10g dried liquorice root
7g dried cherry bark
2 mL (½ tsp) salt
450g (500 mL / 2 cups) Demerera brown sugar
75g (125 mL / ½ cup) lactose (optional)
15 mL (1 Tbsp) vanilla extract

Method:
Bring 1L water, chopped ginger, and cinnamon to a boil.
Boil for 2-3 minutes.
Remove from heat and add: sassafras, sarsaparilla root, cherry bark, liquorice root.
Cover, and let steep for 15 minutes.
Using a coffee filter strain solids out of root-infused liquid.
Quickly cool liquid, so any fine particulate will 'drop out'.
Carefully transfer cooled liquid to a pot - leaving behind any 'sludge'.
Add, brown sugar, lactose (if using) and salt, whisk and bring to a simmer to dissolve sugar.
Cool and add vanilla extract.
This root beer syrup can be mixed 1 part syrup to 3 parts carbonated water for a 'non-alcoholic' root beer.
Makes about 1L syrup.

**For a naturally carbonated root beer:
Mix 1 part syrup to 3 parts water.
Pour into pressure safe bottles, filling to within 2" of top but no higher.
Cap and set aside at room temperature to let ferment for 2-3 days.
Check fermentation - then chill / store in refrigerator.
This will be 3-4% alcohol when finished.
MAKES 4L

**For non-alcoholic / Force carbonated Root Beer:
Mix 1 part syrup to 3 parts carbonated soda water.
Or Mix 1 part syrup to 3 parts water, and force carbonate in a corny keg or ISI bottle.

Other possible Root beer ingredients:
Anise
Birch Bark
Wintergreen
Burdock root
Dandelion root

*There is a popular misconception that sassafras is toxic... sassafras was deemed toxic in one flawed study where rats were forced to consume the equivalent of 9,000 gallons of root beer. Some of those rats got cancer (as expected) and safrole (a component of sassafras root and other foods we eat) was linked as the culprit; leading to safrole being banned from commercial root beer (and ONLY root beer). No mention was ever made of the other spices, and herbs that we consume daily that contain safrole (cinnamon, anise, nutmeg, basil, etc, etc, etc) and no effort was made to ban those or the actual consumption of sassafras in products such as Filé in Cajun / Creole cooking.
The study was later revealed to be flawed, and sassafras / safrole was found not to be any more toxic / carcinogenic than anything else we eat or drink - in moderate quantities. But the ban was and still is in place, but only for the compound 'safrole' and only in commercially made Root Beer in the United States. However sassafras (with safrole) has never been banned, so you can legally buy and sell in the US.*

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[GlenAndFriendsCooking]

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[jacobsedgwick]

when i first started watching these videos i thought "oh, glen & friends. i guess he'll have friends come by and make videos with him from time to time." then i figured maybe that meant julie, but they'd call it glen & julie cooking likely. finally i realized that we're the friends, and i think that's really nice.

[dudeistpriest]

My father's whole family worked for the Hires Root Beer Co. in Philadelphia from the 1890s through their sale in 1960. My old man was chief of maintenance and was the last guy out in 63. I grew up with Hire's root beer and concentrate in the house. Their recipe included carbonated water, sugar, dextrose, caramel, plant extracts of birch, sassafras, licorice, vanilla, spikenard, sarsaparilla, hops, wintergreen, pipsissewa, ginger and flavor.

[micheleoftheoaks]

This reminds me of when I was a kid and my step-father decided to make homemade rootbeer. He and his friends saved glass beer bottles and sterilized them to put the rootbeer in. They had a device that put caps on the bottles by hand. Nobody but my little brothers and their friends liked the rootbeer, so there were a bunch of little boys running around the neighborhood drinking from beer bottles all summer.

[collinjohnson]

It’s almost embarrassing how much I have been looking forward to this video!

[GreenSpleenSubmarine]

Whenever I'm feeling stressed or overwhelmed about something, I always find that it's good to hop on over to your channel to see what you're cooking up. The lack of music and fancy intros makes for a very quiet and calming viewing. Thank you for everything you do!

[bdadamovicz]

Can't get enough of these soda videos. So many tasty drinks in the "Bark Beer" family. Over the years root beer has really gone for that added vanilla/honey profile, I really enjoy when they have some wintergreen and that bite. Probably why I enjoy birch beer so much, as I remember birch bark and wintergreen have several of the same chemicals/oils.

Please keep these coming, they're practically your bread and butter, and if you can figure out Dr Pepper you will be an absolute hero

[dwighthires]

I am the great grandson of the creator of Hires Root Beer and possess a hand written recipe written by my grandfather.. If you know your history, Hires is the very first root beer made and sold commercially in the world, (it has it's origin in a drink made by the indigenous people of this great land). You are closer than many at getting to the source of complex flavors of genuine root beer. Yours is closer than is the majority I have seen Good job at experimenting to seek a great flavor.

[guitartunes]

This guy is like the new Bob Ross but of Cooking

[lokkib]

"Yes, I know, this isn't true cinnamon" saying it to me as if I even know what cassia is lol!

[hatcherluke]

This is a fantastic series. Would love to see your take on Dr. Pepper.

[hennysaud]

Thank you for posting this, my wife loves root beer and I’ve always wanted to show my appreciation by crafting some for her!

[georgeh]

I've only been watching for a minute and I already love this wholesome man just vibing with his roots

[adrianobueno]

Thanks Glen, looks really nice. I do have one suggestion: how about if start to sell the dry ingredients (roots) in your store as a kit? That would help us a lot since not all the ingredients are easy to find and also we could be sure to be as close to your recipe as possible.

[jonathanzink]

Pretty much say 'welcome friends' with him every time the video starts.

[existenceisrelative]

I watched this entire thing. At regular speed.
That is the best compliment i can give.

[unicornsqueezins]

Wow! Your recipe is remarkably similar to my own! Even the measurements are similar. Only difference is mine has star anise, juniper berries, and wintergreen leaves also.

Also, try using powdered sassafras root next time; the flavor comes through much stronger.

[trumpetmano]

My German great grandmother taught us how to find Sassafras in the woods and she would make rootbeer for us. She would send my dad to the bar to get carbonated water. Best ever!

[rlwalker]

I loved her remark, "Of course you did." when referring to buying several rootbeers to compare with the homemade variety. lol

[dustinwilliams]

I love how honest and genuine these two were during the taste testing. Although I'll likely never make this myself, it was interesting to watch the process.