Comment on No shitpost, just posting the best soda in America

over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Late to the party, but yes. In fact, you can buy brewing kits with yeast and sugar to create the carbonation, which are the same components you’d use to brew and ferment beer.

  No idea what the alcohol content would be, but it would be more than typical soda.

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• idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Root beer used to be commonly mildly alcoholic (.5-1%). We made traditional root beer in my AP bio class in high school, and weren’t allowed to drink it because of the alcohol

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Damn, how they gonna have you make a consumable product in class and not even allow you to taste it?

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    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The teacher was pretty cool, so I feel like she would have let us try it, but I’ve never met a science teacher who doesn’t have a viscerally negative reaction to the idea of eating something made in a lab. Honestly, the alcohol was probably an excuse

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      • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Fair enough, teacher basically covering her own ass. Still, it couldn’t be any more alcohol than a sip of cough syrup just to taste it…

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• Mr_Blott@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That’s how they make Jagermeister

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Huh, really? Cuz I like root beer every now and then, but I absolutely hate Jager!

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    • Mr_Blott@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I promise you they both taste the same if you’re not a yank! 😂

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      • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Also not a yank but I can definitely tell the difference IMO

        Root beer tastes like medicine, Jaeger tastes like if Coca-Cola made an aniseed & mint version and you drank the syrup straight

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• simplejack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I guess you could add root beer to fermenting grain, but the end result probably won’t taste like what you expect it too.

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