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.

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_Microft 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

A easy solution might be to mix the concentrate with sparkling/carbonated water?

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atombender 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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.

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quobnk 8 hours ago | parent [-]

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

	▲	atombender 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Nice, I will have to try that!