Home Carbonation!
 

Since Sodastreams are a complete rip-off, I decided to make my own home carbonation kit. Got the parts from Canadian Tire and Princess Auto, and the tank used (that's why I was looking for a used co2 tank).... all told <$50!


All put together:

https://public.bay.livefilestore.com...rbonation.jpg?

we got the sodastream for xmas its awesome IMO. Saves us a lot of money on soda.

I've built pretty much the same rig, works well. Use it to carbonate my home brew as well as for bubbly water. Need to be careful though, any high pressure tank can be dangerous if you get careless. Eventually I hope to put together a 'kegerator' for the beer, bottling is a pain. 'Cornelius' kegs are hard to source around these parts though.

While its cool and all... how much soda do you all drink? :surprise::surprise:
I would have to drink a ton of it to even consider something like this...

Ryan

People like me Ryan. I'm not going to divulge how quickly I rip through cases of diet pepsi. I'll just say "quickly".

Ugghh... I can't even get through i case of diet pepsi without getting sick of it. I get that with most "Diet" pop though. Not sure how you drink so much of it Brett.

P.S. You lose your trainers? :twised:

when i was working in construction i was known to go through over 4l of coke a day sincethen i have cut back but still only drink coke unlessi have the odd flavoured nestle waters. i think im down to under 2l a day lol

lots when our house is used as the main party house lol and with 4 people living here full time seems to be a party at least every few nights.

Wow I thought my 2 cans per day were a lot of coke.

ok.. but does it work good?

I know when I used to word at wine kitz we would cirulate the filtered beer through a line with a bubbler and back into the canister with the CO2 set at 10PSI for an hour.

Steve

It's important for the liquid you wish to carbonate to be very cold, the CO2 dissolves much quicker that way. So it takes a little planning, bottle in the fridge overnight. I generally use 1 liter plastic beer bottles. Put on the cap with valve, squeeze the bottle to remove any air, tighten the cap. Then I hit it with the CO2, a little more than 10 psi though, shake like the dickens for 15-30 seconds, turn off CO2. Put bottle back in the fridge to rest, preferably for another 24 hrs. Then bleed the valve & put on a regular bottle cap. Does take time. I've been planning on making up a few additional caps with valves so I can have more bottles ready faster.

If you're just carbonating water, there's usually no need to let it rest too long after carbonating.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AQi9...eature=related

i may try this if i cant get this used calcuim reactor to work )

Yeah, Mike covered it all. Lots of videos on Youtube and I followed instructions in this link http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-...ays-For-Itsel/

I'm trying to stop from drinking pop, and making soda water to satisfy my carbonated beverage cravings.

Just dropped the tank off to get hydrotested and filled, can't wait to get it back. Bought a ball valve for the regulator outlet at Home Depot on the way home so add another $8 to my build price.

ok so what are you mixing with the water to make pop? and could this suryop be used to make slushies and stuff?

Steve

I don't make pop, mostly just carbonated water. Sometimes I'll add a touch of lemon juice. There are ready made syrups available to make pop if you wish. There are also recipes to make your own flavours, some of them quite close to commercial products.... probably healthier. You just need to invest some time in the whole process, or lay down the cash for the ready made stuff. No clue about the slushie deal, but I don't see why not.

Found this site: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-OpenCola

Although I would never attempt to make my own syrup, I find the term OpenCola amusing.