Lacto-fermented Ginger Ale. I love making homemade ginger ale because I get to control the ginger's strength.
I like it strong. I've even found my personal upper-bound. From my kitchen notebook: Try This! Easy Homemade Ginger Ale. We have had an epiphany.
And it’s called homemade ginger ale. You have to try this. We’ve made a version of this before using homemade ginger syrup, but this is a whole different ball game.
How to Make Soda at Home - Easy Steps to Make Your Own Pop. Brew Your Own: The How-To Homebrew Beer Magazine - Story Index - Miscellaneous - Pop Art - Brewing Excellent Soda. With the same equipment it takes to make beer, you can brew your own soda in a fast, easy and inexpensive way.
A soda expert shares her recipes for ginger ale, coffee soda and other sparkling brews. Brew your own...soda? Well, why not? If you have the equipment to brew beer at home, you have the equipment to make your own soda. There are a lot of reasons to make soda. There are several options available to home soda makers.You can choose to use a premade kit, make your own soda base and add fruit extract or other flavorings, or make your soda entirely from scratch. The Basics Compared with brewing beer, making soda is fast, easy, and cheap. Unless you have a kegging system and can carbonate artificially, you will be using natural carbonation supplied by yeast.
If you use natural carbonation, bottle and add yeast to start the carbonation process once your soda base is at about room temperature. If you need a comparison, try squeezing a commercial plastic bottle of seltzer. The Ingredients. OpenCola (drink) OpenCola is a brand of open-source cola, where the instructions for making it are freely available and modifiable. Anybody can make the drink, and anyone can modify and improve on the recipe as long as they, too, license their recipe under the GNU General Public License.
Since recipes are, by themselves, not copyrightable, the legal basis for this is untested.[1] The flavouring formula for OpenCola is:[2][3] Ingredients of OpenCola 2.36 kg plain granulated white table sugar2.28 L water30.0 mL caramel color17.5 mL (3.50 tsp.) 75% phosphoric acid or citric acid10.0 mL (2.00 tsp.) flavouring formula2.50 mL (0.50 tsp.) caffeine (optional)[2][3] After mixing up the concentrate to the prescribed recipe (including all recommended safety precautions – see links), the syrup is diluted 5:1 with ("preferably sodium-free") soda water to make the finished drink; at this dilution, the above combination of ingredients will yield approximately 24 litres of OpenCola.
Coca Cola - How to make Coca-Cola at home. Codenamed "Merchandise 7X", the list of ingredients that go into Coke - 922 million litres of which were drunk in the UK last year - has been kept carefully shrouded in mystery since the drink's inventor, a medicinal chemist called John Pemberton, first wrote it down in 1886.
These days it is supposedly kept under 24-hour guard in a vault in Atlanta, Georgia, which is odd considering that author Mark Pendergrast published it in his exposé of the cola industry For God, Country & Coca-Cola (Basic Books) in 1993. The company maintains that this recipe is not the same as the one it uses. Kate Rich and Kayle Brandon are bar managers at the Cube Microplex, an "alternative" cinema in central Bristol. Opposed in principle to the business and environmental practices of the Coca-Cola corporation, the Cube bar has never served Coke.
That doesn't mean there isn't a demand for it. After conducting various taste tests, they felt the preference had less to do with flavour than the power of the brand. Soda Pop « Not Dabbling In Normal. Soda Pop July 29, 2010 by Unearthing This Life In spirit of those of you that have not the taste for alcoholic beverages (hic!)
I’m here to share some basic recipes for making soda pop at home! What could be better than a frosty ginger ale to help cool off during these hot summer days? If ginger’s not your thing, how about a lemon-lime soda or an orange-ade? Do note that some of these recipes contain yeast, and as yeast feeds on sugars it releases alcohol and carbon dioxide as by-products. Ginger Ale Mildly sweet and spicy with a hint of lemon (prepare 3 days prior to drinking) Bottled Citrus Lemongrass Soda Recipe.