Homemade Root Beer Ingredients

There is not one true or authentic root beer recipe. There are many different combinations and brews.  Root beer has contained various herbs and spices such as allspice, birch bark, coriander seed, ginger and ginger root, hops, dandelion root, spicewood, wild cherry bark and bitters, wintergreen and wintergreen oil, yellow dock, prickly ash bark and even, molasses.

Today's root beer is made from a mixture of flavorings, sweeteners and carbonation.  Depending on the brewer root beer still contains a vast number of herbs (sarsaparilla root, ginger root, juniper berries, wild cherry bark, birch bark, etc.), oils (anise, lemon, artificial wintergreen, etc.), sweeteners (sugar, molasses, corn sugar, brown sugar, etc.) and carbonation (yeast, artificial, forced carbonation.

Here you will find links to our root beer recipe and how to keg your homemade root beer.  If you have further questions or comments, please use the contact us link above and email our experts.