Homemade Rootbeer

A few weeks ago we were out at Jed's parents for dinner and the subject of homemade rootbeer gets brought up. Jed and Lesa and Chad all went on and on about how good the rootbeer was that their mom and grandma use to make! So then they get this GREAT idea to go find the old bottles and pot and capper thing you use to bake the rootbeer out in the barn. So the next thing I know Jed is loading up the truck with all this stuff and we're bringing it home. So for the next two days he cleaned all the old glass bottles (about 75 of them) and then they sat on my kitchen counter for two weeks. Well most of you know I'm a bit of a clean freak and especially an anti-clutter freak so I had completely lost my patience for Jed and his grand idea to make homemade rootbeer at this point. So I did the only sensible thing.......I called his sister Lesa (knowing her same sentimental feelings towards the rootbeer bottles and equipment) and told her that if she didn't come help Jed make the rootbeer this week and get the bottles off my counter I would throw them all away when the garbage man came on Thursday! That's all it took------Lesa was there the next day and the rootbeer was made! Now any of you are welcome to come have a taste of this fine rootbeer but I've been given strict instructions that none of the glass rootbeer bottles are to leave our house! I also have to warn you that my mother-in-law Jeanne and my sister-in-law Marie and I have decided this homemade rootbeer is an aquired taste (meaning we think it has a disgusting flavor from the yeast you put in it)....but we don't say that around Jed or he gets really bitter.