My fiancé and I are both brewers, and our wedding is coming up very soon. As our wedding favors for our guests we are giving bottles of our light beer, which is one of my favorite recipes. For the children and those who do not drink beer, we are giving out home made root beer. This was our first attempt at brewing root beer, so we were not quite sure what to expect.

Rather than requiring our guests to keep their root beer bottles cold, we decided to force carbonate the root beer. If you use yeast to carbonate the root beer, it will have a tendency to explode if you do not keep the bottle cold. The way that we force carbonated the root beer was to fill up a 5 gallon cornelius keg and put it under pressure. We kept it in the refridgerator so that the root beer would absorb more of the carbon dioxide and made sure that the pressure was kept high for a few weeks.
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