Price: $19.99
(as of Nov 11, 2024 10:38:07 UTC - Details)

Product Description

Copernicus Toys for Curious Minds

Copernicus Toys is a family-run specialty toy and gift brand. We design activity kits, science kits, games, and novelty products to cultivate interactive discovery and exploration for all ages.

For students of the fantastic and collectors of the remarkable!

Made in the USA

Copernicus Toys makes GLUX in the USA. Finding toys that aren't made in China or another faraway place can be tricky, so we work hard to create cool toys here in the USA!

Designed in Virginia

Some of our ideas seem out of this world but they all are designed in Charlottesville, Virginia. We design toys to be fun with the unexpected benefit of being educational.

Made with Love

Copernicus Toys makes our products with the help of exceptional individuals challenged with intellectual, physical, and other disabilities. They work as a team to develop vocational skills and economic self-sufficiency. We employ workers in Pennsylvania and Virginia.

Our Toys & Gifts promote

THINKING

Our toys spark the imagination and create a hunger for learning more.

Our toys show that the world is rich in the fantastic & remarkable.

DELIGHT

We love whimsy and joy.

We strive to create toys that bring joy & delight.

the UNEXPECTED

We see shelves and shelves of mundane toys. We hope to bring the unexpected to your favorite toy stores. Enough generic!

Go for the unexpected!

Brew your own root beer
All natural ingredients
Yummy fresh root beer soda
Kit includes Sasafras extract, yeast, a funnel, labels and instructions
Made in the USA
Reviewer: @LSieu
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Perfect if you follow the instructions! Great flavor! Finer carbonation than commercial or Sosa stream and MUCH healthier for yo
Review: This kit, and especially the extract, worked perfectly for me. The flavor and the carbonation was perfect! I choose to go for a longer fermentation time so that I would have more flexibility in the checking process by using a scant less of the yeast than recommended. With day temps in the mid 70s inn my dark utility room, the carbonation process was perfect after 72 hours.For those first time home brewers be aware that 2 things will ruin your results, and they have nothing to do with this kit. Besides the obvious "follow the instructions" 1) know that home brewed doodads like ginger beer & root beer have a much finer fizz that commercial or Soda Stream sodas because the fizz is a yeast driven natural carbonation that will not leach the calcium out of your bones like injected carbonation. 2) you must use bottles designed to seal and stand up to the necessary carbonation processes and do not open the bottles to check them until the instructions tell you to do so.

Reviewer: MyTwoCents
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fun process, but taste not awesome
Review: Fun kit and activity. Product a little disappointing but process was fun experience.

Reviewer: James D Conley
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Surprisingly useful
Review: Gave this to my niece for Christmas as an interest to share with her father who brews beer. She made it and served it to friends at her birthday party. Turned out to be a hit.

Reviewer: Freebrownies
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Nice smell. Small, expensive package
Review: I bought this as a gift for my son. We haven't made the root beer yet, but we are sure looking forward to it. The package has a wonderful smell of root beer.From the packaging, I expected there to be much more to it and its contents. Here is what you get:One 2 oz bottle of "Rainbow Flavors" Homebrew root beer extract (readily available for just over six bucks elsewhere).One packet of Red Star Pasteur Champagne yeast (readily available for under a dollar elsewhere).One standard 3-inch funnel.Four standard blank labels.One photocopied sheet of paper with instructions (readily available all over the web).The 5" tall cardboard container pictured above(from the rest of the contents, this must therefore be worth about 8 dollars)Not included: bottles.So buy this product if you really like the packaging. Otherwise, order it much cheaper from a local or web-based source.

Reviewer: Marc J Benoit
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: False Advertising!
Review: I brew beer and have soda kegs for my homebrew. I thought that this kit would be fun for my kids and we could put it on tap in one of my corny kegs. The description says that it makes one-four gallons of root beer but the packaging and tiny kit that comes states that it makes 2 gallons of root beer so while this may be a fun kit for people that want to try their hand at doing this and re-purposing soda bottles it is way expensive for what you get which is a tiny bottle of extract and a small packet of champagne yeast. Much cheaper to go to your local homebrew store and pick up a large bottle of extract for five bucks. After reading the instructions I'm even further confused as they state that this kit only makes 4 liters of Root Beer which equals one gallon of root beer! So the Ad says up to 4 gallons, the packaging says 2 gallons and the instructions tell you how to make 1 gallon of root beer! Just so anyone considering this is aware, by using yeast to carbonate this is will end up with about 1% alcohol by volume so you may not even want to let your kids drink it! I overcame this by using CO2 to carbonate it but all in all this was a very disappointing purchase.

Reviewer: Sonoran Nomad
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Yummy and Fun
Review: Our child wanted to do something 'sciency' and picked this kit, along with a few other more science filled toys. This was amazing! He sat down, read the instructions and got started right away. Making his own root beer took more time than we had thought though, so be prepared for that! It takes a couple days from start to finish. Overall though, an awesome kit.

Reviewer: Linda DeWeese
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: My Grandkids has fun making the Root Beer!!
Review: It was a fun experience for the Grandkids to create their own Root Beer! They loved it!

Reviewer: Jason
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Neat product and teaches some science
Review: It seems very easy to make. My boys have only made one batch so far and it was ok. It smelled just like root beer when making but smelled a little like real beer after it sat for a day, fermented I guess. I’m sure they’ll get better at it with each batch made. Cool product.