I made my first batch of root beer today. For 7L I used:

• 3cups cane sugar
• 2oz sarsaparilla
• 0.8oz wintergreen leaves
• 0.25oz licorice root
• 0.5cups honey (added at end of boil)
• 2T molasses
• 0.25t nutmeg

The recipe is a simplified version of this person’s. I boiled for about 45 minutes, cooled, and pitched a little less than a quarter teaspoon of champagne yeast. It tastes pretty good, but perhaps too sweet. Next time I might tone down the cane sugar and bump up the licorice. The sarsaparilla tastes and smells absolutely wonderful! I sourced the licorice, wintergreen & sarsaparilla from Northern Brewer.