• idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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      21 hours ago

      Root beer used to be commonly mildly alcoholic (.5-1%). We made traditional root beer in my AP bio class in high school, and weren’t allowed to drink it because of the alcohol

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        21 hours ago

        Damn, how they gonna have you make a consumable product in class and not even allow you to taste it?

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          19 hours ago

          The teacher was pretty cool, so I feel like she would have let us try it, but I’ve never met a science teacher who doesn’t have a viscerally negative reaction to the idea of eating something made in a lab. Honestly, the alcohol was probably an excuse

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            19 hours ago

            Fair enough, teacher basically covering her own ass. Still, it couldn’t be any more alcohol than a sip of cough syrup just to taste it…

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            18 hours ago

            Also not a yank but I can definitely tell the difference IMO

            Root beer tastes like medicine, Jaeger tastes like if Coca-Cola made an aniseed & mint version and you drank the syrup straight

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      22 hours ago

      I guess you could add root beer to fermenting grain, but the end result probably won’t taste like what you expect it too.