Thread: Soft beer brewers

I must ask, with my more recent success in soft beer brewing and with the recent threads about hard beers I was wondering if there were any soft beer brewers out there?
I have made some root beers lately with a few different recipes including my own, some found newer style recipes and some from my family recipe book.
I am going to start a few new batches of sarsaparilla with enough time to bring some to the Spokane meet.
I would like to learn more from others who do and any help would be appreciated. I am looking for recipe suggestions, sites, suppliers, even your methods.
Right now I use a combination of more traditional approaches and newer adaptations. I brew from scratch, clean using bleach, usually use ale yeast and use a method quicker to bottle than some. All of my bottles use a resealable bale and I don't filter out the yeast like some do.
This is a basic overview and according to the gentlemen at the Yakima meet this last weekend I did pretty good. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated as I am planning on upping my production and eventually work into hard beers, wines, meads, etc.
Anyone else want to get into this hobby please also post as I will share all that I have learned as I continue to learn this additionally addictive hobby.

dont forget to brew a good birch beer, and when you do have a good recipie, send it to me, i gave up drinking quite a few years ago, but the pa dutch heritage in me loves birch beer. lol

Read the sig. Can't live this long w/o having one. I have an old family recipe which is strong and I have a newer recipe.
This one was just given to me

1?2 oz. dried birch bark
1?8 oz. dried licorice root
1 tsp. fresh ginger sliced thin (about 1")
1 tsp real vanilla
2 qts. water

2cups molasses
1/8 tsp Yeast
This is an untested recipe and quite small for me. If I were to test this I would check it periodically.
Hope it works for you.
Remember to use plastic bottles for your first few batches.
If you need detailed soft beer instructions let me know.

pm me those instructions, you have just made me a very happy man, that will give me something to play with later on when the weather warms more