Discussion
DIY soft drinks
aitchnyu: Disappointed there is no carbon dioxide injection. In the 90s till date in this corner of India, Mr Butler is a compact pure mechanical device which can make nose tickling strong sodas. If I were a soda fan, I would have DIYed and rejected the flat mop water that most commercial sodas have become.
s0rce: I liked this video about recreating coke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDkH3EbWTYc&t=176s
atombender: I made Open Cola once, and hooked it up to CO2 canisters and a beer tap (the other tap had home made beer). It's certainly better than mixing with soda water or using a SodaStream.
_Microft: A easy solution might be to mix the concentrate with sparkling/carbonated water?
AdmiralAsshat: Last time I tried this...it was alot easier to just buy the concentrate from Cube-Cola rather than trying to source all of the essential oils separately and shear them together.https://cube-cola.org/I think you'd end up paying less, too. I paid about 20 bucks for the concentrate bottle plus shipping, made 1.75ml of it, thought it was fine but couldn't quite replace Coke in my diet, and didn't buy again. Had I done it all from scratch, I'm pretty sure I would've paid more and had a bunch of essential oil bottles leftover, going to waste.
toast0: 20 bucks for 1.75ml of cola seems like pretty bad value.
quobnk: The trick to have well carbonated beverages if all you have available is a sodastream-like device:- cook the water to remove any other disolved gasses- Cool it down to as cold as you can. A sludge of ice and water is very close to zero °C- keep some ice unmelted- carbonateThis is a bit annoying to do especially step one (I skip it, it seems to help bit not to a huge degree) but it helps making very carbonated water to mix with the sirup
AdmiralAsshat: To be clear, it made about 1.75L of syrup, not cola. I kept the cola syrup jug in a fridge for like a year, and when I wanted a glass of "cola" I'd add about an oz of the syrup concentrate to a glass of carbonated water (which I pre-carbonated with my DrinkMate), and stirred to combine.I used like half the amount of sugar the cube-cola recipe recommended, because it seemed high. It wasn't Coke sweet but it was still plenty sweet for a soft drink, to my palette.EDIT: Originally said 1.75 ml, meant to say Liters.
IanCal: Do you mean L? ml to me would be millilitres and one fluid ounce is ~30ml.
AdmiralAsshat: Yes, typo on my side. Thanks for catching!
atombender: Nice, I will have to try that!
nchmy: I bottled 20 litres of kombucha yesterday with ginger and lemongrass. It'll be very fizzy and ready to drink in 3-5 days. Costs next to nothing and quite healthy - water, black tea, sugar, (gifted and self-reproducing) scoby. The flavourings are what costs most, depending on what you use.
tareqak: Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola (It Took Me A Year) - LabCoatz : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDkH3EbWTYcThis content creator used a mass spectrometer to find the flavoring used in Coca-Cola.
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