Make Your Own Root Beer Syrup
Have you ever tried to make your own soda pop? Depending on where you live you might call it, soda or pop or soda pop. I used all of these names over the years, but I think in our area most people use the word pop. But anyway have you ever tried making it yourself?
When I was young we used to go to the beach at least once a year. There was an A&W restaurant close to where we would stay and we would eat lunch there on our way home. I would always get some kind of root beer when we had lunch. It might be just root beer or a root beer shake or a root beer float. But when we went to A&W you had to have root beer.
After lunch my mom would always buy a gallon jug of the root beer syrup to take home, to make our own root beer soda. She would purchase a 2 liter of carbonated water and we would have the traditional root beer sodas.
Once that ran out, my sister and myself would just add water to the root beer syrup and enjoy it that way, until it was gone.
I was thinking the other day about making my own root beer. I figured how hard could it be? After all I can get root beer flavoring at the grocery store.
So I set out to make our own root beer syrup for making root beer soda.
I think you will be surprised at just how easy it is to make your own root beer. I’ve seen lots of recipes that use yeast to make the root beer frizz. But I thought, I would stick with just using club soda from the store. I know if it’s a simple recipe, I will make it again and again.
To start, you’ll need to make a simple syrup. It’s basically sugar added to water and boiled. Then stir in the root beer flavoring and you have the root beer syrup.
Just add the syrup to the carbonated water and you have homemade root beer. Easy peasy and so delicious on a hot summer day! And no high fructose corn syrup either.
Make Your Own Root Beer Syrup
Ingredients
- 2 cups Water
- 2 cups Sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons Root Beer Concentrate
- Club Soda for the Fizz
Instructions
- Boil the 2 cups of water in a sauce pan on high heat.
- Add the sugar and stir until it is dissolved.
- Cool the sugar water.
- Stir in the root beer concentrate, place into a clean glass jar and refrigerate until cold.
To Serve
- Pour 6-8 ounces of chilled club soda into a glass.
- Add in 4-6 tablespoons of root beer syrup or to taste and stir.
- Enjoy!
Where to get Root Beer Concentrate,
I usually purchase the Root Beer concentrate in the spice aisle at the store. I find it near the vanilla. But if you can’t find it in the store you can get it at Amazon. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Here’s the brand I use, Watkins Root Beer Concentrate. (referral link)
What do you call soda? Is it, pop, soda, coke or soda pop to your family?
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I love how easy this recipe is, Shelly. 🙂 I had no idea how easy it was to make your own root beer syrup at home.
Easy recipes are always good to have. If it’s too complicated I know I less adapt to make it more than once. 🙂
Root beer floats in large goblets, root beer with H&S fish-n-chips, pepperoni pizza with root beer are some of the childhood standard memories in our family. So when I found your recipe I knew I’d have to grab it, save it, pin it, make it.
I’ve made my own ginger ale before, and the recipe is very similar. But then, ginger ale does not use root beer concentrate. hahaha
Thank you so very much. I’ve subscribed and will share. Unlike Gen. MacArthur though, I really will be back.
Back in the 1980′ s we had a root beer hotdog stand that would sell rootbeer that was non carbonated . I actually used to prefer it that way. Will be making it with and with out the fizz.
Mike, Wow that’s interesting that you used to see root beer that was non-carbonated, my father-in-law likes root beer without the fizz and would have loved your hot dog stand.
I grew up in Massachusetts and called everything tonic. Now I live in Georgia and everything is called coke, even if you want rootbeer.
Beth, calling everything coke would be really confusing. Do you say, I’d like a root beer coke? If you want a root beer soda?
This has been around for many years. My mom used to make homemade root beer all the time when we were kids in the 60’s.