There are lots of beer and wine kits out there, but here’s a brewing kit that will be fun to use with the whole family: the Root Beer Brewing Kit.
You can make 4 gallons of delicious old fashion root beer naturally carbonated with yeast and bottled in your own recycled plastic soda bottles. The kit includes 2 oz. root beer extract, special brewing yeast, funnel, project guide, blank labels, storage container. You have to provide your own of these items: two 2-liter plastic soda bottles with screw caps or four 1-liter plastic soda bottles with bottle caps, 2 cups of sugar, a pot large enough to hold a gallon.
The kit is about $15.
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Oh, I don’t think that it’s a matter of being wrong! It’s no doubt much more cost effective to make it yourself, but for myself (for example), I never in a million years would have thought about doing it until I saw this kit. Sometimes packaging is the most important part of the whole experience
I guess I stand corrected on these kits. A co-worker bought 20 of them from Bed Bath and Beyond on black friday to send to everyone he know who never made root beer with their kids. I guess I am in the minority for doing it yourself.
It’s true, but I still think this would make a fun gift to get someone going! Or for someone who wanted to do it once, but not on a regular basis. Sometimes the packaging is what catches my eye
We used to buy hundreds of dollars of Edmund’s products too when my kids were young. Now my husband just looks wistfully at the catalog and dreams of grandchildren…
As much as I love Edmunds (my kid’s xmas is $300 of stuff from them (so far)) and the old alliance that they had with American Science & Surplus (awesome places – I live at the Milwaukee store and grew up at the Chicago one) The simple fact that Hires extract is available for under $2 a bottle and only requires a large tub, sugar, water, etc. as well as a surplus bottle capper makes this a little expensive.