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Re: DIY Soft Drinks

#11

Post by gryfft »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #9
toast0 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

20 bucks for 1.75ml of cola seems like pretty bad value.

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 stil…

An oz is ~29.57 ml (mililiters), so I think perhaps you meant that you made 1.7 l (liters)?

Re: DIY Soft Drinks

#12

Post by [deleted] »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #9
toast0 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

20 bucks for 1.75ml of cola seems like pretty bad value.

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 stil…

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Re: DIY Soft Drinks

#13

Post by IanCal »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #9
toast0 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

20 bucks for 1.75ml of cola seems like pretty bad value.

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 stil…

Do you mean L? ml to me would be millilitres and one fluid ounce is ~30ml.

Re: DIY Soft Drinks

#14

Post by quobnk »

atombender wrote: post #6
aitchnyu wrote: post #4

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.

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.

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

- carbonate

This 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

Re: DIY Soft Drinks

#16

Post by AdmiralAsshat »

IanCal wrote: post #13
AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 stil…

Do you mean L? ml to me would be millilitres and one fluid ounce is ~30ml.

Yes, typo on my side. Thanks for catching!

Re: DIY Soft Drinks

#17

Post by 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.

Re: DIY Soft Drinks

#18

Post by atombender »

quobnk wrote: post #14
atombender wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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 - carbonate This 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 wa…

Nice, I will have to try that!
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