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Cooking & Baking

shireen

(8,333 posts) Fri Sep 28, 2012, 06:43 PM Sep 2012

Homemade sodas? [View all]

Has anyone tried making homemade sodas, either with yeasts, carbonating the beverage, or using tonic water with syrups?

I love Gus extra dry ginger ale but it's pricey. So I'm looking for a way to make dry ginger ale at home. I'd also love to try making sodas out of apple, passion fruit, and raspberry juices.

Also interested in making ginger beer, you know, the kind with alcohol in it.

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Homemade sodas? [View all] shireen Sep 2012 OP

A friend has one of those soda machines and loves it. cbayer Sep 2012 #1

I've done ginger ale using yeast Retrograde Sep 2012 #4

You add the CO2 BEFORE you add flavoring eridani Sep 2012 #5

Yeasted sodas are very tricky Warpy Sep 2012 #2

I never thought it was all that tricky Major Nikon Oct 2012 #15

I make my own "syrups" and add club soda or sparkling water. no_hypocrisy Sep 2012 #3

I've done this, too Denninmi Sep 2012 #6

how do you make ginger ale syrup? shireen Oct 2012 #7

Two recipes no_hypocrisy Oct 2012 #9

thank you so much! shireen Oct 2012 #10

You're welcome. Hope you prefer your own brand to store-bought. no_hypocrisy Oct 2012 #11

Ginger syrup jackbenimble Oct 2012 #13

exactly what i need! shireen Oct 2012 #21

thanks everyone, those are great ideas. shireen Oct 2012 #8

there's a work around for the expense of the CO2 NMDemDist2 Oct 2012 #12

If you wanted to go that route there's no need to buy the sodastream at all Major Nikon Oct 2012 #16

oh great .... shireen Oct 2012 #20

Here's what you'll need Major Nikon Oct 2012 #24

but getting CO2 from a welding company is not food grade CO2. shireen Oct 2012 #19

crap! now you tell me! we've been using it for 3 years NMDemDist2 Oct 2012 #23

CO2 is CO2 Major Nikon Oct 2012 #26

When I was a kid, we has one of these... TreasonousBastard Oct 2012 #27

I have a pretty good amount of experience doing it Major Nikon Oct 2012 #14

thanks, i really like that ginger beer recipe. shireen Oct 2012 #18

There's no diffence really Major Nikon Oct 2012 #25

very yummy imgbitepolitic Oct 2012 #17

this is one of the reasons i love DU shireen Oct 2012 #22