Black As Night Brew

There is nothing quite as exciting as a bubbling brew

for Halloween Night or for any party for the little ones.

We know our goblins - young and old love dry ice.  Beaulah gets

a big kick out of dry ice too.  She would like me to let her

bubble and brew.

This easy punch just oozes with fun as it creeps up

and out of our Poison jar. 

We bought our Poison punch jug at Smith's grocery store

in town, but you could sure make one using a Cricut machine.

(I JUST GOT ONE - FINALLY - BUT WAITING WAS GREAT

BECAUSE I GOT THE CRICUT EXPLORE AIR AND I DON'T

HAVE TO BUY THEIR CARTRIDGES!  WOO HOO!!)

But back to the punch - don't you just love it crawling down

the sides of the jar?  Don't ever add dry ice to a jar with a closed

lid - it can explode.  So ---- I put some stick on pads or rubber bumpers

around the lip of the jar to hold the lid up and off the jar as I wanted

to look with the lid on.

You can see little bits of dry ice dancing around in their

Poison brew.  

We just added orange and purple food coloring to 

root beer to get a dark color.  Of course, our favorite is homemade rootbeer,

which makes a five gallon batch, but you could cut it in fifths to make a gallon

of it.

Homemade Rootbeer

(Regular 5 gallon rootbeer recipe cut in fifths for a one gallon container.)

1 lb sugar

1 gallon water

1/5th of a bottle of rootbeer extract

1-2 lb dry ice

Orange and Purple food coloring

Mix the sugar and water together.  Add the rootbeer extract.

Add 1 lb dry ice to make it carbonated.  Add purple food

coloring to get a darker color for your brew.  Wait until the bubbling

stops, then add additional dry ice for serving.  You get most of

the smoking action right at the beginning.  Add it and watch

the kids eyes.  Everyone loves it.

Substitute bottled rootbeer if desired.

Brew up a little fun for Halloween!