kyrsyan
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We've had a soda stream for a while now but I hit a mental block with it. Then one of the few sodas that my son could drink stopped being made. And then soda got more expensive period because of the aluminum can thing. Add on a few more things in life and I started looking at making syrups for the soda stream again. But that is going so so. One of the problems being ingredients to make my son's favorite. Another being the need for time to experiment to work out our other favorites.
While searching for ingredients for birch beer, I tripped across some flavor extracts/concentrates to try. They are apparently meant for the home brewer that wants to make their own soda the old fashion way with yeast and time, which I can do but really don't want to right now. Although I will probably try at least one batch that way. But you can easily convert the recipes to make syrup for use with the soda stream. I ordered one ginger beer and one birch beer. From the information I can find, each pouch can make anywhere from 2.5 to 5 gallons of drink depending on how strong you prefer the flavor to be. You get to chose the sweetener and add it because there is absolutely no sweetener in it.
I thought I'd pass on the idea because storing these pouches takes up a lot less room than storing cans of soda. It even takes up a lot less room than any concentrate I might can for later use. And a lot of us just don't have room to store the quantities of our favorite drinks that the flavor concentrates can provide. Also, like I said, they can be used to make soda the old fashioned way if I run out of CO2 for the soda stream and can't get anymore. Or just can't get any for a few weeks.
While searching for ingredients for birch beer, I tripped across some flavor extracts/concentrates to try. They are apparently meant for the home brewer that wants to make their own soda the old fashion way with yeast and time, which I can do but really don't want to right now. Although I will probably try at least one batch that way. But you can easily convert the recipes to make syrup for use with the soda stream. I ordered one ginger beer and one birch beer. From the information I can find, each pouch can make anywhere from 2.5 to 5 gallons of drink depending on how strong you prefer the flavor to be. You get to chose the sweetener and add it because there is absolutely no sweetener in it.
I thought I'd pass on the idea because storing these pouches takes up a lot less room than storing cans of soda. It even takes up a lot less room than any concentrate I might can for later use. And a lot of us just don't have room to store the quantities of our favorite drinks that the flavor concentrates can provide. Also, like I said, they can be used to make soda the old fashioned way if I run out of CO2 for the soda stream and can't get anymore. Or just can't get any for a few weeks.