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Sassafras root is still used to flavor traditional root beer, although since sassafras was banned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration because of the carcinogenicity of its constituent safrole, most commercial recipes do not contain sassafras. Some commercial root beers do use a safrole-free sassafras extract.
How Beer is Made. Beer is typically made from 5 classes of ingredients: water, malt, hops, yeast and sometimes adjuncts. Water is beerâs most abundant ingredient. We use Albany city water, after removing the chlorine. It is very good brewing water. Malt is the next most abundant ingredient in beer. It gives the beer its sweet, malty taste and aroma, is the only source of a naturally-made beerâs color, and provides the food that the yeast will convert into alcohol and carbon dioxide. Malt is very important!