 Greentime Episode #8 - Brewing Soft Drinks
from Greentime
May 15, 2007
We ve been featured in Riptide, the blog of New Times Miami, a newspaper dedicated to local culture! Thanks go out to Tamara Lush for making this possible. You can see the article about us here. Rhett shows you how to use a brewing technique similar to methode champagne to put bubbles in flavored sugar water and make your own soda. This is the traditional technique for making soft drinks such as ginger beer and sasparilla, and it makes for something sweet to serve with dinner or at parties. Rhett s ginger beer recipe: place 1/2 cup sugar, 1/8 tsp yeast, 1 tbsp (to taste) ground ginger root, juice of 1/2 lemon, and water to fill to 1 head room in a 1L bottle. Cap, shake, and let the yeast do the hard work for 24-48 hours at room temperature. This easy recipe came to us via this WikiHow article. This technique can be adapted to any number of flavorings and levels of sweetness. The only limit is your imagination! If you d like to make cola, a good recipe can be found in OpenCola. WikiHow provides a simple-to-follow recipe. Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), MPEG-4 Video (protected) (.m4v) Tags: soda, homebrew, diy, diet, do it yourself, reduce, green lifestyle, green, environmentalism
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