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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.
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.<p><a href="https://cube-cola.org/" rel="nofollow">https://cube-cola.org/</a><p>I think you'd end up paying less, too. I paid about 20 bucks for the concentrate bottle plus shipping, made 1.75L of it, thought it was <i>fine</i> 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.
Jumps through 100 hoops to make coke... doesn't add cocaine?! :)<p>Add modifinil and peptides and you'll have your latest soylent startup.
Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola (It Took Me A Year) - LabCoatz : <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDkH3EbWTYc" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDkH3EbWTYc</a><p>This content creator used a mass spectrometer to find the flavoring used in Coca-Cola.
I liked this video about recreating coke <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDkH3EbWTYc&t=176s" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDkH3EbWTYc&t=176s</a>
There's a great book about this if you're interested. Half history lesson half recipes. Check out: Fix the Pumps (which the book tells you is old soda fountain slag for check out a woman's breasts)
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.
A easy solution might be to mix the concentrate with sparkling/carbonated water?
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:<p>- cook the water to remove any other disolved gasses<p>- Cool it down to as cold as you can. A sludge of ice and water is very close to zero °C<p>- keep some ice unmelted<p>- carbonate<p>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