Does anyone know where I can buy Root Beer in the UK?

Question

It used to be my fave drink (remember McDonalds used to sell it?) But I can't see it anywhwere in the shops.

Answer 1

You can get it from Asda, its with the cans. But its not that great. Also Sainsbury do an Austrialian one. None are as nice as A&W though!

Answer 2

Here are some links to making your own at home, MUCH BETTER!

http://www.leeners.com/rootbeer.html

Now homemade can be timely so they do sell extracts that you just combine with soda water.

Go here:
http://www.caneandreed.com/Pennsylvaniadutchfoods.html#Pennsylvania%20Favorites

Answer 3

here are two recipes to make it (to see pics on the first one click on the link below it)

How to Make Root Beer

Making root beer at home is easy, once you gather all the necessary supplies. It's a great family project and a way to teach the younger ones that not everything tasty comes from an aluminium can. And it's delicious, too!
Steps
1.

Using a clean bottle and a dry funnel, add the ingredients in sequence as stated in the steps that follow. First add a level cup of table sugar, (or cane sugar). Adjust the amount to achieve the desired sweetness.
2.



Yeast on sugar
Measure out 1/4 teaspoon powdered baker's yeast, and place in the funnel. The yeast should be fresh and active, and any brand that is available will work.
3.

Shake well to make sure that the yeast grains are distributed evenly into the sugar.
4.

Swirl the sugar/yeast mixture in the bottom in order to make it concave and enable it to catch the extract in the middle.
5.

Replace the funnel, and add 1 Tbsp of root beer extract on top of the dry sugar.


Notice how the extract sticks to the sugar. This will help dissolve the extract as seen in the next few steps .
6.

Fill the bottle halfway with fresh cool tap water that has only a little chlorine. Pour through the funnel and use this opportunity to rinse extract stuck to the funnel and tablespoon. Swirl to dissolve the ingredients.
7.

Fill the bottle to the neck, this time with fresh water, leaving only about an inch (2.54cm) of head space. Securely screw the cap so as to seal the bottle. Invert repeatedly to thoroughly dissolve the contents.
8.

Place the sealed bottle at room temperature for about three or four days until the bottle feels hard to a forceful squeeze. Then move it to a cool place (below 65 F (18 C)). Refrigerate overnight to thoroughly chill before serving. Crack the lid of the bottle just a little to release the pressure slowly.

Tips
·There will be a sediment of yeast at the bottom of the bottle, so that the last bit of root beer will be turbid. Decant carefully if you wish to avoid this sediment.
·Fermentation has been used by mankind for thousands of years for raising bread, fermenting wine and brewing beer. The products of the fermentation of sugar by baker's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae (a fungus) are ethyl alcohol and carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide causes bread to rise and gives effervescent drinks their bubbles. This action of yeast on sugar is used to 'carbonate' beverages, as in the addition of bubbles to champagne.
·Artificial sweetener cannot be used to replace the sugar. Sugar is required for yeast to generate carbon dioxide which carbonates the beverage. No sugar, no carbonation. You might experiment with less sugar, and add a substitute to make up for the lower sweetness, but it is not known just how little you can add and still get adequate carbonization.
·Use bottled water instead of tap.

Warnings
·Do not leave the finished root beer in a warm place once the bottle feels hard. After a couple weeks or so at room temperature, especially in the summer when the temperature is high, enough pressure may build up to explode the bottle! There is no danger of this if the finished root beer is refrigerated. Move to a refrigerator overnight before opening.
·There might be alcohol in this home made soft drink. The alcoholic content which results from the fermentation of this root beer has been found, through testing, to be between 0.35 and 0.5 %. Comparing this to the 6% in many beers, it would require a person to drink about a gallon and a half (5.7 L) of this root beer to be equivalent to one 12 ounce (355 mL) beer. It can be said that this amount of alcohol is negligible, but for persons with metabolic problems who cannot metabolize alcohol properly, or religious prohibition against any alcohol, consumption should be limited or avoided. However, there are many high school biology labs who have made this beverage without any problems.

Things You'll Need
·
clean 2 liter plastic soft drink bottle with cap
·funnel
·1 cup measuring cup
·1/4 tsp measuring spoon
·1 Tbl measuring spoon
·cane (table) sugar [sucrose] (1 cup)
·Zatarain's Root Beer Extract (1 tablespoon)
·powdered baker's yeast (1/4 teaspoon) (Yeast for brewing would certainly work at least as well as baking yeast.)
·cold fresh water
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Root-Beer

Root Beer Soda

Time: <10 minutes Serves: 8
Ingredients
Instructions

2 cups sugar
1 cup water
1 tablespoon root beer extract
64 ounces carbonated water

1. Stir 2 cups sugar into 1 cup of water and just heat until all dissolves and is clear.
2. Add 1 tablespoon of root beer extract to complete syrup.
3. Place 2 ounces of syrup in a 12-ounce soda glass.
4. Add a little ice and soda to fill: 8 ounces of soda to 2 ounces of syrup. Stir only once so that you don't work out the carbonation.


Root beer syrup is available at a good pharmacy (no prescription needed of course) but may be cheaper and available in larger quantities if you buy online. Google it or here are the two sites mentioned above http://www.caneandreed.com/Pennsylvaniadutchfoods.html#Pennsylvania%20Favorites
http://www.leeners.com/rootbeer.html

Answer 4

Try a shandy, it's much better, for rootbeer you'll need to go somewhere all American that imports.

Answer 5

dodgey corner shops all over england are likely to sell em, they sell anything to make money :P

Answer 6

Adsa did do it. you could check their site on line.

Answer 7

I don't know but you can look it up on www.google.com and I'm sure you'll find it there.

Answer 8

try somerfield im sure they sell it

Answer 9

try home an bargain if not Morrison's !

Answer 10

asda sell it!