Soda Extracts

Main Street Homebrew has the following soda extracts available for sale:

Root Beer
Birch Root Beer
Sarsaparilla
Spruce Beer
Cherry Soda
Strawberry
Ginger Ale
Ginger Beer
Cream Soda
Passion Fruit
Cola
Egg Nog
Orange Soda
Raspberry Soda
Lemon-Lime

The cost of each vial is $6.25, and each vial will make 4 gallons of delicious homemade pop.

Please see the instruction sheet on soda-pop-making for further information. This explanation also includes some warnings about the potential hazards of bottling soda-pop and using natural carbonation procedures with living yeast.

Main Street does **not** recommend bottling soda-pop in glass bottles. It is potentially very dangerous. We sell one-liter plastic bottles at the store, or you can use recycled one and two-liter plastic soda-pop bottles that you would buy sodapop in from the local grocery store.

If you decide you are going to naturally carbonate using living yeast (either in plastic or glass bottles), two packets of champagne yeast (necessary for each 4 gallons) will cost $1.70 (85 cents apiece).

NEW SODA EXTRACT


Straight from New Orleans, we are now carrying Zatarain's Root Beer Extract. Zatarain's has gotten very good reviews from our customers over the past few months, and each vial makes five gallons instead of four, perfect if you are going to keg your soda pop in a Cornelius keg.

Each vial of Zatarain's Root Beer Extract costs $4.95.

Here is a recipe for an old-fashioned root beer float using Zatarain's root beer extract:

Homemade Root Beer Floats
No need to go to the ice cream parlor for a great tasting root beer float! Make it at home with Zatarain's® Root Beer Extract.

Makes 4 servings.
Prep Time: 10 minutes

Ingredients
1 cup water
3/4 cup sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons Zatarain's® Root Beer Extract
1 bottle (1 liter) cold seltzer or club soda
1 pint vanilla ice cream

Directions
1. Bring water to boil in medium saucepan. Add sugar; stir until dissolved. Add Root Beer Extract; stir until well mixed.
2. Refrigerate until ready to serve. Slowly pour seltzer into root beer mixture until well blended.
3. Place 2 scoops into each of 4 tall glasses. Slowly pour root beer between ice cream and side of glass. Serve immediately.

We also carry the definitive book on making homemade root beers, fruit sodas, cream sodas and other assorted beverages. This is the Bible of making sodapop.

Our price: $17.95