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Here's a recipe:

http://www.colawp.com/colas/400/cola467_recipe.html

I've been told that it's important to use phosphoric acid, rather than just citric, to give it that cola bite.

Good luck, ...

OK, I've made a couple of batches from scratch now. The first wasn't bad, but gave me enough information to make a pretty tasty second brew. The LorAnn oils seem to be good quality. I repent of my ...

Ooh... I'd prefer to avoid working with antifreeze, if possible.

I think I'll try dissolving some oils into a bit of Everclear. That's what the local brew pub told me they use to emulsify oils f ...

Thanks for that feedback. I had no trouble with the sassafras, licorice or anise oils I tried but the wintergreen, at 1 drop in 8 oz of water, produced almost no flavor, but a repulsive formaldehyde- ...

Can you tell me about the quality of the Loranoils' wintergreen? The stuff I just got from American Spice was terrible. It had a nauseating (non-wintergreen-like) smell that completely overpowered t ...

Does anyone have experience force-carbonating in large quantities?

So far I've been carbonating in 2-liter bottles. I just moved up from a hand-held seltzer carbonator to home brewery system with ...

Thank you very much! Those are excellent sources, especially the ones with larger quantities for when I'm ready to move up to larger brews.

Kellan

In partial answer to my own question, I found a good source for essential flavoring oils and extracts:

AmericanSpice.com

I ordered food grade essential oils of anise, licorice, wintergreen, sass ...

OK, I found some licorice root. There are no local sources for food grade essential oils and I'm not having a lot of luck on the internet (at least determining which ones are food grade). Do you kno ...

I've been using the exactly the equipment that you can see in Chuck's two links (I bought it at the local home brew beer supplier). The best thing about it is that you can judge how much pressure is ...

In my quest for flavoring extracts I keep encountering a class of extracts (licorice, sassafras, etc.) that are sold in health food stores for medicinal use. Are these viable as flavoring extracts as ...

I've been doing some home brewing with root beer extracts and I'm ready to move on to experimenting with my own recipes, but I'm having a really tough time finding extracts.

The recipes in the Step ...