By the way, the r/poppi subreddit has been deleted. Pepsi silencing all dissent. I would say to "pour one out" for Poppi, but I don't recommend buying these sodas, and I don't drink soda in general (water remains undefeated).
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Buy a carbonation tank and some specialty bottles/pipes/nozzle for under $200. Carbonate all your drinks for cents a gallon. Experiment with your own soda syrup or just drink sparkling water/wine. After the initial investment you just need to refill the tank every six months.
Just make sure it isn't a sodastream
I wouldn't buy soda stream or any other company. You never get enough gas for the price. A DIY CO2 tank is the way to go
The soda syrup is expensive as fuck (relative to water, smoothies, etc.) basically no matter what unless there's one people can make themselves. Even getting no-name syrup in bulk from restaurant distributors is barely cost-effective compared to getting 32 packs of soda for 15-17$ from Costco.
I was curious if I could make my own energy drink cheaper than buying and tried pricing the individual components (which doesn't even factor in the labour you'd need to do to actually get caffeine blended homogenously into it) and no matter how I worked it out I couldn't get it cheaper than buying some more ready-made product.
The ingredients are too exotic and expensive compared to making your own alcohol or just carbonated water or fruit juice or something.
750 mL of fruit syrup costs around $6. In a 1:8 dilution that's 6 liters. That doesn't beat $1 for a 2L of store-brand soda, but it's still rather cheap.
Now if you really want something fizzy and customized, you get a 1-gallon glass jar of pickles, eat the pickles, save the jar. From there, about ¾ pound of sugar ($0.45), 5 regular black tea bags ($0.30), 2 tablespoonfuls of that fruit syrup ($0.24 but you can skip this), a generous dash of vinegar ($0.05), and a kombucha starter. Brew the tea ($0.01 in electricity), fill the rest up with water, let it sit for a month, and then you have 3.5 L of a fancy, low-sugar, carbonated, probiotic drink that cost you about a dollar in supplies.
wtf, does America not have squash/cordial? I get 2 litres of Vimto concentrate for like £3, which makes about 10-20 litres of soda depending on how strong you like it.
Maybe? But I don't know what the flavour-to-cost ratio (AKA the Flavourtown dilemma) those would have compared to like a cola flavour or something that doesn't just taste like carbonated juice.
vimto is lush
easily in top 3 squash(es?)
Well, they're not exotic, per se, they're just used on massive quantities in complex supply chains. It's all about scale.
Yeah, I should have said zero sugar flavor packets, coffee syrup sweatener, or juice. But the neat thing about owning your own carbonation tank is you can experiment with different options. Your results may vary!
You can make your own syrups, and can make flavors that just don't exist in a can. I especially like shrubs, syrups that include vinegar.