Root Beer!

Last year we bought the kids a root beer making kit for Christmas.  We made once batch then put it away and kind of forgot about it.  Today was the day for batch #2!

measuring the sugar

and the flavor syrup

Lots of sugar - eeks!

stirring

Quinn supervising

takes a lot of stirring to melt the sugars

Snuggle break

Mixing the flavor syrup with water and giving it a final shake.  After this it goes into those bottles on the back counter and sits in the pantry for 3-7 days to let the yeast carbonate the root beer.  No pics of the final result but it was YUMMY!!!  Root beer floats with homemade vanilla bean ice cream.