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Bottling Homemade Root Beer
If you are using the recommend plastic soda bottles with screw on caps please note that your bottles must be cleaned and sanitized prior to each use. The following chart will help you determine how many bottles you will need per gallon of root beer.
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Using a funnel, pour root beer into the bottles so that there is about 1¼ inch of air space left in the neck of the bottle. Leaving to little air space will cause the root beer to remain flat.
Leaving to much air space will cause the root beer to over carbonate and may cause the bottles to gush when opened or even explode. Fill used plastic soda bottles in the same manner. -
Seal the bottles tightly and store them for 4 to 7 days at room temperature. This will allow the yeast to eat some of the sugar and carbonate the soft drink. You can check the carbonation by squeezing the plastic soda bottle. When it is hard, the soda is done and must be refrigerated.
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Allow the bottles to chill for at least 1 week prior to serving. The root beer will improve in flavor with time but it must be stored in the refrigerator.
WARNING: We do not recommend that you use glass bottles for homemade soft drinks because of the risk of injury do to over carbonation.
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case of 24These are new food grade plastic bottles with re-usable screw on caps. We recommend using plastic bottles for homemade soda because they are child safe and you can easily tell when carbonation is complete. Caps have tamper proof rings. |
bag of 24Replacement caps for PET bottles. Caps have tamper proof rings. |
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