Like my family, my husband's family has a lot of fun when they get together. In December there is a ceremony (accompanied by song) to put a particular homemade moose ornament on the Christmas tree. On Christmas morning they go caroling to gas stations, hotels, and a hospital to bring a little Christmas cheer to people who have to work on Christmas. And on the 4th of July they have a BBQ and make homemade root beer.
The recipe is very simple. They call it 5-5-5.
5 gallons of water
5 pounds of sugar
5 pounds of dry ice
2 ounces of root beer concentrate
Words of caution:
1. Take care when handling the dry ice that is not does touch your skin. We used fairly thick gloves when handling it.
2. Do not shut the lid to the cooler all the way. Exploding coolers would definitely put a damper on a summer party.
First add about 5 gallons of water. We are using a five gallon cooler. Just make sure you leave some room for the other ingredients.
Then add a 2 ounce bottle of root beer concentrate. I could not find it in grocery stores in my neck of the woods. But it is available on Amazon. I used McCormick Root Beer Concentrate.
Add five pounds of sugar. Stir it together well. We have three generations here working on this batch of root beer. I love it!
Next add about five pounds of dry ice. I could only find dry ice in one of the grocery stores in my area. It is sold in prepackaged bags. This bag was almost 8 pounds of dry ice, but it still worked just fine. (Note the gloves to protect the hands!)
The really fun part is watching the mist!
See how the cooler lid is not shut all the way. Give that mist a chance to escape!
The root beer tastes great plain, but it never hurts to have some with vanilla ice cream too!
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