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Yield: 7 to 9 pint jars

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Making and canning your own

Ingredients

Homemade Root Beer
Carbonated with yeast.

Mix together 5 lbs. sugar and one teaspoon baker's yeast. Add one 4 oz. bottle of The Big H Root Beer Extract http://store.hiresbigh.com/rootbeer-extract and 4 gallons of cold water and mix thoroughly until the sugar and yeast have dissolved. Pour the root beer into clean bottles leaving about an inch of head space. Cap the bottles and let them sit at room temperature for 3 or 4 days. (If using plastic bottles, the bottles will feel hard when squeezed.) Store the fermented root beer in a refrigerator or other cool location. Bottles left in a warm environment will explode.

Quantity: 4 gallons.