History of root beer, and a collection of from-scratch recipes for brewing at home.

A collection of recipes that involve the use of Coca Cola.

Recipe for syrup concentrate, using stevia and ginger root. Served with club soda or sparkling water.

Yeast free and raw food recipe using juiced green apples and ginger, served with sparkling mineral water. From Living and Raw Foods.

Recipe for syrup, using ginger and vanilla. Also has history of Vernor's soda.

Instructions and pictures to make this recipe requiring dry yeast, tartaric acid, lemon, and fresh ginger roots. Finished product, slightly alcoholic, keeps for three days.

Yeast based recipe from the Harrowsmith Reader, requires cool storage.

From the New Orleans Times-Picayune, August 1980.

As given on a radio cooking program in Georgetown, British Guyana (now Guyana) in 1961-62. Made with ginger root, green lemon, sugar, and a few grains of barley.

From Guyana's Ministry of National Development and Agriculture and Carnegie School of Home Economics, 1973. Made with pounded green ginger, lime, a few cloves, sugar, and white rice.

Potato and corn meal based.

An African recipe made with ginger root, yielding a spicy drink. Fruit juices, other than the ones called for, make interesting variations.

Syrup made with water, honey and ginger root, is added to seltzer water to consume.

Easy to follow recipe for syrup made with ginger slices, to be served with sparkling water. Also recipe to make ginger candy using the same syrup.

Fresh ginger, lemons, cream of tartar, and yeast, are the main ingredients of this recipe.

This recipe uses champagne yeast, and ginger beer extracts.

Old fashioned recipe using honey, sassafras, and sarsaparilla.

Recipe using champagne yeast, sugar, root beer extract.

Advanced soda recipe using sarsaparilla bark, dandelion and burdock root leaves.

Recipes for homemade root beer and ginger beer.