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Good recipes to share for a full scale brewery?
 
 
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Joey
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 6:27 pm    Post subject: Good recipes to share for a full scale brewery? Reply with quote

We have a full scale microbrewery in which we've made rootbeer from concentrate only. Does any beer brewer have a recipe they are willing to share suitable for a full scale (7 barrel) brewery operation? Or info on how to convert the recipes listed for home use to a grander scale?
  
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parsa
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 6:05 pm    Post subject: Re: Good recipes to share for a full scale brewery? Reply with quote

I guess if I were going to make huge quantities of root beer, I wouldn't use sassafras root. Especially since the FDA might not like it.

If you look at the recipes in that link, you'll see that they are basically Black birch beer. Methyl salicylate from Black birch trees used to be a big industry in America. The oil is called oil of birch, but is the same as oil of wintergreen.

A purist wouldn't call it root beer though. They'd say it was birch beer. Most commercial root beers are actually synthetic birch beer. I had my chemistry students make methyl salicylate in class as part of an esters lab. It was pretty easy.

Root beer should smell like sassafras, which smells pretty darned good. Methyl salicylate smells like Ben-Gay. I personally like the smell of wintergreen, but some people think it smells like medicine.

Some companies like Bulldog Roor Beer reportedly use a commercial form of sassafras extract that does not contain the supposed carcinogen safrole.

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aruzinsky
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 6:53 pm    Post subject: Re: Good recipes to share for a full scale brewery? Reply with quote

Joey wrote:
We have a full scale microbrewery in which we've made rootbeer from concentrate only. Does any beer brewer have a recipe they are willing to share suitable for a full scale (7 barrel) brewery operation? Or info on how to convert the recipes listed for home use to a grander scale?


Since my last post, I found the perfect site for you and give it here:
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