Gave for a gift and very unique, cute idea. The box and products could not be cheaper. Root beer ended up tasting awful, like a root beer barrel, not like root beer really at all. But for the price and the idea and fun of making, worth it. Just don't expect any real or delicious root beer.

My 14 YO son has gotten really into root beer. He's a bit of a connoisseur. He's always looking for new brands of root beer to try. He ranks each new root beer he tries based on a few criteria. So ,this seemed like a good idea for a gift. It was a huge success. It was easy and fun to make and it is really delicious. It's number 2 in my son's list of rankings. The entire family loves this root beer.

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Gave this to my hubby for Christmas. Just had our first batch, the flavor was great-- just what I expected from a bottle of rootbeer. Now I'm thinking about gifting it again to someone else in my family that enjoys rootbeer!

passably good root beer. The 2nd batch was better once I got flavouring from a brew store but that is a matter of taste. The kit performs well and as described.

Got this kit for the first time earlier this week. That evening I opened it and got together everything I needed to mix it. Sanitized everything. Got things gathered to mex. Did so, no problem. An easy mix. Added the yeast. mixed it up well in the gallon jug I was using. Then did the pour into the jugs. Capped them. The caps are interesting. I like the small inserts that allow excess pressure to get out of the bottle. Anyway, the next morning when I checked the jugs, one of them was almost hard. So figured it had gotten more of the yeast so I put it in the fridge. The other jugs were still soft. That afternoon, just on a whim, I checked the bottles again and found another one that looked ready so I put it in the fridge as well. The last two bottles were still soft. That evening the last bottles were hard and I put them in the fridge. Next day, as I had waiting, anxiously I admit, for the first bottle to be refridgerated for a full day, I opened it up and my son and I shared it. I liked it. The carbonation was fine for me and the flavor was fantastic. Reminded me of the old fashioned root beer I used to buy many years ago. My son liked the taste, but prefered more carbonation.So since we had a soda maker gadget that did its own carbonation, we poured the rest of this rootbeer into one of its bottles and hooked it up and gave it some extra carbonation. Worked good. Just had to be careful not to get overly anxious to unhook it. Let it sit a couple of minutes and then poped it to relieve the pressure and then we shared the root beer result. And it was perfect for my son. Lots of fizz and a nice bite for him. He got a pretty good sugar rush once done. The extra CO2 takes away alot of the surgary taste and gave a real bite. Anyway, this is great. We have been drinking this off and on the last couple of days. Even my wife likes it...without the extra fizzing. As do I. My sons, prefer adding fizz, but I think that is from the age difference. They grew up drinking commercial sodas with alot of fizz. I grew up when getting a soda was a rare treat, and especially a root beer. Only on trips to town. I grew up on a farm. We went to town once a week, on Saturaday. Thats when I either got a soda at the gas station, or got one at the root beer stand in town as a float. So guess this shows my age.Anyway, follow the directions, watch the results closely, and if needed, remove the ones that are ready early and refridgerate them. The tast will be great I am sure. Have already ordered a couple more refill kits so we can have these on hand. And if you like more fizz, if you have one of those soda machines, use it to give your drink more fizz. Just remember to crack it first to relieve the pressure, let it sit another minute, then remove and enjoy. If you have your own keg setup with CO2, you can use the output from your co2 canister and add co2 that way. They have some special connectors available here on amazon just for carbonation of sodas and other drinks that are pretty inexpensive and will work well. I plan on getting them and a 5 pound co2 tank so I can add co2 to this and other things as needed, though as far as I am concerned, this drink has plenty of co2 in it for my taste. But tastes vary.

We bought this for our teenagers over Christmas to make and enjoy. The process to bottle is very easy, but it takes TONS of sugar. The hold-time is only a day or two for carbonation. Make sure you plan for this - our kids expected root beer the same day. The root beer is very good, but very sweet. There's almost a licorice taste too it; definitely not what the kids would be used to from fast food joints. All-in-all, it was a hit. No one could drink the whole bottle at once because of the rich,sugary taste. It's definitely worth trying again.

I ordered this product so my son and I could brew it together. He loves root beer and was very excited about our little project. We followed the easy to follow, step by step instructions and ended up with a delicious home made, gourmet style root beer. Shipping was incredible. Less than 24 hours!

This is a fun kit that makes good root beer rather quickly. There is also some science information about yeast and brewing and some "kitchen chemistry" experiments to try. You need to pay close attention as to when to refrigerate the final product. Too soon and you get flat root beer, too late and you get super fizzy stuff that spoils the taste. As an all-natural product, it doesn't have a long shelf life, so if you worry about your kids drinking large amounts of soda in short periods of time, you won't be brewing often. I found that the thrill of making root beer wore off after about 3 tries and I haven't made any since. It was fun while it lasted though

I was skeptical of this home brew root beer kit but found it very easy to make if you following the instructions precisely.Be certain to read the instructions thoroughly prior to starting, especially the part about what you need from your own kitchen.Aside from the typical measuring utensils and a bowl, you will need a gallon sized container. The instructions call for a gallon milk jug which if used, will fill the bottles perfectly. If you use a pitcher with a lid, you risk the chance of not adding enough water which will lead to not completely full bottles of root beer.Although the taste is excellent I don't believe I will be purchasing again. The root beer syrup has the ingredients listed on the back of the package. I'm not too fond of the preservatives and dyes listed but the one that especially stands out of the propylene glycol which is a chemical used in antifreeze and de-icing solutions used on air crafts. Granted this chemical is biodegradable and apparently listed as an approved substance from the FDA, I think I will pass this product up next time around.