Soda Watch
Jan. 28th, 2014 01:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bloodyrosemccoyHave successfully made ginger ale from scratch!
I think I over-lemoned and under-sugared it, but it's pretty good nonetheless. And it's fizzy!
See, my first attempt at a from-scratch root beer has been sitting forlornly in the bathtub for almost a fortnight, and I am starting to suspect it will stay flat forever. I think I didn't manage to actually get the yeast into the bottles; it all wound up sitting in the bottom of the big jug I was using to mix everything up. This time I think I did better in getting it in there, but I was ready to leave this ginger ale in there for a week or so anyway.
Fortunately, I did check it after a couple of days, and I guess I got something right, because the plastic bottle was stiff as a brick.* With luck this heralds an improvement in my methods!
Next up is more root beer, because dammit I want to get root beer right. And then after that, who knows? I'm finding a lot of recipes online that might be fun to try. Anybody know any they want to share?
*Plastic bottles do have the advantage that you can check how carbonated they are by how much give they have when you squeeze them. Since I still prefer glass, my solution is to use ten 12-oz. glass bottles and one half-liter plastic bottle.
I think I over-lemoned and under-sugared it, but it's pretty good nonetheless. And it's fizzy!
See, my first attempt at a from-scratch root beer has been sitting forlornly in the bathtub for almost a fortnight, and I am starting to suspect it will stay flat forever. I think I didn't manage to actually get the yeast into the bottles; it all wound up sitting in the bottom of the big jug I was using to mix everything up. This time I think I did better in getting it in there, but I was ready to leave this ginger ale in there for a week or so anyway.
Fortunately, I did check it after a couple of days, and I guess I got something right, because the plastic bottle was stiff as a brick.* With luck this heralds an improvement in my methods!
Next up is more root beer, because dammit I want to get root beer right. And then after that, who knows? I'm finding a lot of recipes online that might be fun to try. Anybody know any they want to share?
*Plastic bottles do have the advantage that you can check how carbonated they are by how much give they have when you squeeze them. Since I still prefer glass, my solution is to use ten 12-oz. glass bottles and one half-liter plastic bottle.
