• @over_clox
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    515 hours ago

    Dumb question, but does anyone know if you can brew root beer into actual beer with alcohol?

    • @idiomaddict
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      413 hours 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

      • @over_clox
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        413 hours ago

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

        • @idiomaddict
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          412 hours 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

          • @over_clox
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            212 hours 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…

      • @over_clox
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        115 hours ago

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

          • @9point6
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            211 hours 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

    • Jesus
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      214 hours 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.