Root beer/Ginger ale?

I'm trying out some Butterbeer recipes and most of them say I have to use root beer. Now, as far as I know, we don't have root beer over here. However, we do have Canada Dry ginger ale.

Could I replace the root beer with ginger ale? Or is it something entirely different?

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6 replies since 27th May 2012 • Last reply 27th May 2012

Reply #1:

It's very different, lol root beer is like sasparilla. It's molasses based not ginger based like ginger ale. I don't think it would work very well to swap root beer for ginger ale.

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Reply #2:

I don't like root beer any more except for a root beer float maybe once a year. I love ginger ale but only seem to have it when I'm sick...

anyways have you ever tried Cock N Bull Ginger Beer? It's a ginger ale/root beer mix you can get at the grocery store (at least here in Cali). It's very authentic flavored so its actually a little hard to drink do to it's intense taste but I bet it would taste good in a butter beer malt. Happy

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Reply #3:

I'll look for it, but I doubt we have it. Happy Is there anything I could replace it with? Or should I just drop the recipes that require root beer? :p

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Reply #4:

Hmmm... Check the baking aisle for root beer extract and maybe add that with sugar and club soda? If you can't find anything maybe Dr. Pepper would work as a substitute Tongue

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Reply #5:

I found a recipe on here that calls for cream soda. Here's the link: http://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/butterbeer

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Reply #6:

I forgot about cream soda o.o good call!

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