Dr Cronk’s Sarsaparilla Beer Recipe. Cronk is the drink! Cronk is a fermented ginger and molasses root beer; from a much earlier time. It was promoted as a health drink, it was promoted as a temperance drink, it was promoted a safe drink at a time when the water supply was in doubt.Cronk T-Shirt: https://thebigsteak.com/products/cronk-is-good-t-shirt(I am not affiliated with the T-shirt maker, nor do I profit from the sales)Ingredients:6.81g sassafras*27g sarsaparilla 14g hops6.81g camomile6.81g cinnamon34g ginger15 mL extract sarsaparillaBoil them all together 2 hours, then strain out the solids.Add the above liquid to a fermentor, and add the following:3.4g steeped green tea (in 500 mL water)570 mL molasses6L water½ Pkg of yeastOpening Gravity:Brix: 6.7%DS: 6.5ºP: 6.4D20: 1.025D60: 1.026Final Gravity:Brix: 2.6%DS: 2.5ºP: 2.4D20: 1.009D60: 1.0102.9% ABV*There is a popular misconception that sassafras is toxic... sassafras was deemed toxic in one flawed study where rats were forced to consume the equivalent of 9,000 gallons of root beer. Some of those rats got cancer (as expected) and safrole (a component of sassafras root and other foods we eat) was linked as the culprit; leading to safrole being banned from commercial root beer. No mention was ever made of the other spices, and herbs that we consume daily that contain safrole (cinnamon, anise, nutmeg, basil, etc, etc, etc) and no effort was made to ban those or the actual consumption of sassafras in products such as Filé in Cajun / Creole cooking. The study was later revealed to be flawed, and sassafras / safrole was found not to be any more toxic / carcinogenic than anything else we eat or drink - in moderate quantities. But the ban was and still is in place, but only for the compound 'safrole' and only in commercially made Root Beer in the United States. However sassafras (with safrole) has never been banned, so you can legally buy and sell in the US.*#LeGourmetTV #GlenAndFriendsCooking
