Thread: Halloween Root Beer, or "Spooky Witch's Brew!"

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Tools you need: A cooler or some other container that will hold more than five gallons , and a stirring spoon.

Ingredients:

At least five gallons of water, or replace some with crushed ice
one bottle of Root Beer Extract (2.5oz size)
five pounds of sugar
five pound block of dry ice.
Directions
1. Pour water into cooler
2. Pour entire bottle of root beer extract into water
3. Add sugar. Mix sugar, root beer, and water together. Put block of dry ice in.
(WARNING! DON'T TOUCH ICE-- IT WILL BURN YOU!!!!!!)
Put a cover over it with a cloth so that the mixture doesn't splash out from the bubbling dry ice . BUBBLING DRY ICE CAN BLOW THE LID OFF IF IT'S TIGHTLY SEALED.
4. Let it sit for twenty to thirty minuets, and drink!!!
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Dry ice root beer is great. Another great tip is to mix up the flavors a bit. You can add things like cherry flavor extract, vanilla extract, etc... to change it up a bit.


-Tucker
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I thought you weren't supposed to use dry ice in things you ingest? What if a small piece gets in the glass?

This may be a dumb question, but why not just buy some root beer and be done with it? I'm not a root beer fan so it's possible I'm just not getting it.
Just wondering...

Yes, very true... you never want to eat/drink dry ice. You need to wait long enough for all of the dry ice to sublimate before drinking the root beer. Whenever I made it, I was just smart about it and made sure it was all gone.

Originally Posted by Madame Leota

This may be a dumb question, but why not just buy some root beer and be done with it? I'm not a root beer fan so it's possible I'm just not getting it.
Just wondering...

It's the same as any other recipe. You can go buy that apple pie, but it's not gonna taste like your mom's home made.

One of my favorite childhood memories was a friend's Bday party. Lucky sucker born in October. His mom donned the witch costume and made some rootbeer in a giant cauldron.

Or the days when Grandma would make and bottle her own.

Glad to see a recipe on here.