Root Beer take 2 (FAILED)

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I purchased some brewing yeast (Ale) for this batch. I have it boiling now, house smells like a root beer factory. My wife loves the smell, I do to.

Ingredients:)
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Peppermint extract? I had no idea! Looks like a good batch of stuff that should taste good in the end!
 

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Here's the quantities & 30 minute boil in 1 gallon spring water. Stir in lime juice when you cut off the fire at the end of 30 minute boil. Place covered pot in sink of cold water until wort is 70 degrees or below. Remove the lid after 20 minutes and check it's temperature.

Inoculated, airrated, bunged and airlocked.
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Original Gravity = 1038ish... 3 lbs of fermentables (dark cane sugar). It should finish out around 1010 final gravity, so that would be around 4.8% alcohol contents or there abouts.
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Was good tasting going in to the carboy, hoping for a successfully ferment :fl
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Day 4 - I like the way it's fermenting nice and peaceful with Ale brewing yeast, instead of ginger bug that I used in my failed batch. It looks like it still has a few days left to go. Seeing very little trub in the bottom of the carboy but the bubbles inside the carboy seem to be more white now. So I would guess it looks like the yeast eat through the sassafras root sugars first, probably because it was a more of a simple sugar than the dark brown sugar cane sugars are. It'll be interesting to see what the yeast does when it breaks down the more complex sugars from some of the other multiple ingredients.

You can really see the bubble color difference by comparing both day 1 and day 4 pictures. Yeast I'd a very interesting organism.
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