Turn ordinary tap water into a refreshing summer spritzer with your own, homemade carbonated water system! If you, or someone in your group loves to tinker around, making cool gadgets, then continue on reading to discover how soda, or any other carbonated delight can be yours on the cheap for years to come! Even if you are not too technically savvy, completing these fun tasks are easier than one would imagine! Plus, we have discovered two more ways to create carbonation for your cocktails and more, providing you with now three solutions for your fizzy water needs!

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Why Make A Machine Instead Of Purchase One?

This is obviously a valid question. The main reason is after long-term use, the savings are astronomical! Replacing those CO2 cylinders will surely add up over time…Checking the current best price seems to hover around a whopping $30 per can!? Therefore, each litre is about $0.30, which seems ok; but how about dropping that cost to only $0.05 per litre? Already sounding better for those that love 2L a day of their fave carbonated beverage!

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3-Ways To Create Bubbly Water At Home!

#1: The True DIY Carbonation Rig

This method will provide the best results and savings over time. Yet, it will be the most costly to start-up, as well as the most challenging to build. If you are into home brewing of beer, then many of these parts will already be known. And if not, all these pieces can be obtained on-line, at your local brewery store, or hardware store.

Parts:

• 5lb CO2 tank around $80 (Fill at Keg Store or Wedding Shops)
• Plumber's Tape, around $2
• Stress Controller, around $46
• Ball Latch-On Gas Line Assemblage, around $14
• Carbonator Lid, around $12
• 1-Liter plastic beverage or club soda containers, around a buck

Total = $155

Once you have acquired all your goodies, it’s time to bring on the bubbles!

Steps:

• Connect the tank to your stress controller, aka pressure regulator. Ones utilized for extracting beer from a keg is ideal! Setting the pressure for approx.. Under 60psi will ensure safety for all!

• Attach the Ball Latch Assemblage to the pressure regulator. Use lots of gas line!

• Place the other end of the gas line into the carbonator lid.

• Chill your water in your excess bottle.

• Tighten the carbonator lid to the bottle.

• Set your regulator for 40psi and hit it!
  

Learning the tricks of the trade regarding shaking the newly formed carbonated liquid, to expelling a bit of gas, then carbonating once more, to which syrups work best can all be researched online. Many folks have taken a fascination with home craft soda making!

Ultimately, when you have mastered your new DIY carbonation maker, the price will be right. Did you know that with one-5lb tank of CO2, you can concoct 5 kegs of soda!? That will provide a lot of drinks on the cheap over time!

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#2: Whipped Cream Canister

This little secret is every bartender’s friend! Replacing nitrous oxide with CO2 into a whipped cream canister turns it into a soda syphon! Refrigerate until as cold as you can get your beverage without freezing, the gently release the pressure using a few clever techniques found, once again, online. Creating eclectic cocktails at home using this method will surely impress your dinner guests! We wouldn’t recommend making a family a five everyone’s favorite soda utilizing this technique: It is timely.

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#3: Online Syrup & Grocery Store Soda Water

This one comes from those that really, really want to save their dough, but just love their favourite flavour. If you check out the newest, latest & greatest brand in home carbonation machines, Aarke, they have created some of the most unique and refreshing flavours on the market today. So, if you like, let’s say Wild Strawberry Essence Drops, just simply purchase it, and a bottle of cheap soda water, and mix together. Hey, we guess it does work in a pinch…

Safety Concerns:

Building your own carbonation device can seem a bit risky, with pressure and gas being involved, but the chances of malfunction are slim to none. The worst situation typically is a very wet and messy kitchen. Proper research will allow you to become a

home carbonator, enjoying all the delicious drinks of your labour!

There is a tad of an online debate into which CO2 is safest for human consumption. Purchasing your gas as food grade will guarantee your vodka soda will be ready for the pool, and not the doctor’s office. Studies have shown that even paintball grade CO2 cans can be safe and effective for home carbonating, but we would never advocate that. Staying safe by purchasing at a home brewing supply store, or a beverage distributor, as well as a reputable online dealer of CO2 gases, and most wedding shops carry the safe, human acceptable CO2 gas for purchase/ refill.

Getting The Best Results!

It is paramount to super-chill your liquid first! Getting the water as cold to freezing as you can will be a great start to obtaining a “higher fizz” success at the end. Make sure to fill the bottle you are using only 75% full. The chemistry needs to brew up in there! Thereafter, shaking it like a polaroid picture will help further agitate the reaction to the prefect gin fizz. We suggest carbonating twice as well. This really brings the party to your mouth!

Which Is Best, DIY Or Store-Bought?

Aarke - White Carbonator III Sparkling Water Maker

SodaStream has been around forever, offering up a plethora of syrups with their line of carbonation makers. While the price looks appetizing at a starting point around $70, things do, and will add up quickly with this brand unfortunately.

Aarke, as mentioned earlier just came onto the scene in 2013. They do deserve a bit of applause with their futuristic, yet timely rendition of a soda jerk machine updated for today’s usage. Although a bit more than a SodaStream, or building your own, this company’s attention to style and detail are worth every penny!

And as for the DIY-Styled carbonation maker, it is up to how you first feel about going through the steps of purchasing parts and building a device. Some people love these fun hobbies, while others would never dream of even starting something like this project. If you love to fabricate stuff, and ultimately enjoy saving some cash down the line with a pretty cool machine you built by hand, then by all means, have at it, and good luck.

The whipped cream cannister is a neat party/ bar trick that does work. It is not something you would want to do daily if you are one who drinks many glasses of carbonated water with a splash of real lemon juice for health reasons. This option would be too timely and costly with the little CO2 cartridges that fit into a whipped cream dispenser.

Adding flavours to store-bought soda water is far from a genius recipe. It works though! So, there you have a few ideas on how to keep sparkling at your next soiree! Everyone loves something fizzy, whether it be alcoholic or non, so make up a batch this weekend for everyone to enjoy!

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