 You just basically make a tea out of it and then cool it down, and then you add your sugar, your sweeteners, whatever you want to taste, and then carbonate it with dry ice or however you want to carbonate it. Yeah, and I'm going to say if you're going to try making your own root beer and you're not going to use an extract, go with a known recipe first. This is not to say that you shouldn't experiment further with it,