Homemade Root Beer

Mirj's Note:

For some extremely peculiar reason, there is no root beer available where I live, but there is McCormick's root beer concentrate. I scoured the world to find a recipe and here it is. It's not exactly A&W, but as close as you can get to the real thing, if you can't get the real thing.

• Total Time: 5 mins
• Prep Time: 5 mins
• Cook Time: 0 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 5

• ¾ cup sugar
• ¾ cup hot water
• 1 quart cold seltzer water
• ½ teaspoon root beer concentrate (McCormick is what I use)
• 1⁄8; teaspoon root beer concentrate (yes, more of this stuff)

Directions:

1. Dissolve the sugar in the hot water.
2. Add the 1/2 and the 1/8 teaspoon of root beer concentrate and let it cool.
3. Combine the cold root beer mixture with the seltzer water.
4. Pour into a glass, make a pretend mug handle with your thumb and pinky, and drink.

Reviews

[Heather Sullivan]

It's not quite root beer but it's a good subsitute for the real thing when you can't get the real thing. I used Shank's birch beer concentrate which is similar to root beer.