Originally Posted by Iceblossom

We used to make our own root beer, I think it was Hires that had an extract and instructions just for that. It wasn't like the canned version.

I forget exactly what happened (it was back in the 70s) but we did have a batch we forgot about or something and it exploded pretty spectacularly... fortunately they were stored down in the laundry room and it was relatively easy to clean up.