Comments on: Bugged by a crazy idea http://www.robertmitchellevans.com/2009/11/10/bugged-by-a-crazy-idea/ It is better to have written a crappy story than none at all. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:28:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Fish http://www.robertmitchellevans.com/2009/11/10/bugged-by-a-crazy-idea/comment-page-1/#comment-112 Fish Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:01:25 +0000 http://www.robertmitchellevans.com/?p=866#comment-112 I find it funny that this is still hanging around in your head. I thought I was the only person who got those ideas that gnaw like a pissed off chihuahua. Honestly, if sweetie will go for it, I'll help you install and possibly even chip in so I can steal a glass on game nights ;). I find it funny that this is still hanging around in your head. I thought I was the only person who got those ideas that gnaw like a pissed off chihuahua. Honestly, if sweetie will go for it, I’ll help you install and possibly even chip in so I can steal a glass on game nights ;) .

]]> By: Melissa http://www.robertmitchellevans.com/2009/11/10/bugged-by-a-crazy-idea/comment-page-1/#comment-111 Melissa Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:42:37 +0000 http://www.robertmitchellevans.com/?p=866#comment-111 I have made soda from scratch. Do not waste time or effort on anything that makes less than 2-5 gallons. Making you own soda is dead easy, cheap as it gets (my dad did it in the depression to save money.)and actually tastier than most commercial stuff. I assume you mean to make regular soda - not diet. (If you are going to go diet, all bets are off. I have tried to make home-made diet and it simply doesn't work. Yet.) You need: a container to hold at least the total quantity of liquid you plan on ending up with, sterilizing solution (check out a brewing supply store for this. You can use bleach, but it is hell on plastics and anything metal), bottles to age and store in, yeast, soda concentrate, your preferred sweetening solution, and caps with your preferred capping/sealing device. Myself, I prefer to use a five gallon, food grade plastic bucket with a spigot attachment in the lower side and a tube with a little pressure stop on it to bottle - but I also use this for alcoholic beverages so it is extra worth it. Your sweetener needs to be in liquid form. There will be directions on the concentrate. Follow them. Do not add hot sweetener to your mixture. You need the whole thing to be between 80-100 degrees F. (Too hot will kill your yeast and there will be no fermentation.) Sterilize anything your finished product will touch. Mix everything together according to concentrate directions. Bottle. Wait at least one week (two is better.) Refrigerate. There's the soda. I have made soda from scratch. Do not waste time or effort on anything that makes less than 2-5 gallons. Making you own soda is dead easy, cheap as it gets (my dad did it in the depression to save money.)and actually tastier than most commercial stuff. I assume you mean to make regular soda – not diet. (If you are going to go diet, all bets are off. I have tried to make home-made diet and it simply doesn’t work. Yet.)

You need: a container to hold at least the total quantity of liquid you plan on ending up with, sterilizing solution (check out a brewing supply store for this. You can use bleach, but it is hell on plastics and anything metal), bottles to age and store in, yeast, soda concentrate, your preferred sweetening solution, and caps with your preferred capping/sealing device. Myself, I prefer to use a five gallon, food grade plastic bucket with a spigot attachment in the lower side and a tube with a little pressure stop on it to bottle – but I also use this for alcoholic beverages so it is extra worth it. Your sweetener needs to be in liquid form. There will be directions on the concentrate. Follow them. Do not add hot sweetener to your mixture. You need the whole thing to be between 80-100 degrees F. (Too hot will kill your yeast and there will be no fermentation.) Sterilize anything your finished product will touch. Mix everything together according to concentrate directions. Bottle. Wait at least one week (two is better.) Refrigerate. There’s the soda.

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