Beers Gone Wild Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 This looks like it will be sorta cool. Its called the beer bar. The SodaStream brew is called Blondie and has 4.5 per cent alcohol. Like with other products in the range, you mix a concentrate with water and then inject the bubbles using a SodaStream News Article link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bolchy Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 Theres an idea i hadnt considered. If i cant wait for my beer to carbonate up due to the cold weather. Can i pour it in a soda stream and carb it up that way. Surely thats just force carbing on a small scale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graculus Posted June 3, 2016 Share Posted June 3, 2016 Theres an idea i hadnt considered. If i cant wait for my beer to carbonate up due to the cold weather. Can i pour it in a soda stream and carb it up that way. Surely thats just force carbing on a small scale Only if you agree to video the procedure and upload to youtube. I suspect you may have to bleep out some of the audio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted June 3, 2016 Share Posted June 3, 2016 Looks like vapourware to me, just like KFC nail polish! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigantor Posted June 3, 2016 Share Posted June 3, 2016 Have always considered the idea of a sodastream unit to carb my beer. But when I saw the price of the unit and gas tubes I decided against it. My sister has a unit and I was waiting for her to get tired of it and off-load at next to nothing. Hasn't happened yet - but I live in hope. There are so many new little home brewery Quick & easy units coming onto the market of late it scary. And some of them are quite expensive. It seems that the makers of these machines loose sight of the beauty and enjoyment that comes from actually making the beer (I don't want a unit that does everything for me - I want to make it myself). But that's me. Cheers, Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted June 3, 2016 Share Posted June 3, 2016 Have always considered the idea of a sodastream unit to carb my beer. But when I saw the price of the unit and gas tubes I decided against it. My sister has a unit and I was waiting for her to get tired of it and off-load at next to nothing. Hasn't happened yet - but I live in hope. There are so many new little home brewery Quick & easy units coming onto the market of late it scary. And some of them are quite expensive. It seems that the makers of these machines loose sight of the beauty and enjoyment that comes from actually making the beer (I don't want a unit that does everything for me - I want to make it myself). But that's me. Cheers' date=' Pete[/quote'] I'ts not just you Pete, as evidenced by the thread on WilliamsWarn. Those high end brew setups are really aimed at people with too much money, that want to show off that they "made their own beer" when really all they've done is put pre-made ingredients into a machine that does the work. To my mind it's the way wealthy people do their own version of FWK brewing. Real home brewing involves choosing your own ingredients (whether K&K (though some argue about whether K&K is really brewing or not), kits & bits, extract, partial or all grain brewing), doing all the work & really participating in the process, including aiming at a particular style or doctoring up an existing recipe. To my mind, making up a brew using a machine or fresh wort kit, & calling yourself a home brewer is akin to cooking up 2 minute noodles & saying you're a chef. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Von Blotto Posted June 3, 2016 Share Posted June 3, 2016 Yeah I'd have to agree, things like this aren't making beer at all. All they're doing is mixing a concentrate with carbonated water. You might as well just go to the bottle shop and buy beer. People may argue that straight kit and kilo isn't really brewing either, and I'd tend to agree, but at least you still have to do the fermentation and bottling or whatever. But yeah for me the best part about brewing at home aside from drinking the results, is doing the whole process to get the beer in the first place. I love brew weekends! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted June 6, 2016 Share Posted June 6, 2016 I still maintain it's vapourware though. If it is a real product, it would only be legal to sell the consumables at a bottle shop or the like, as the extract you mix with water is 4.5% A/V. Even then if this was a real product the intention would be for that 4.5% to be watered down (pun intended) to 1.5%. I'd say Sodastream have achieved their objective, they have people talking about a fictitious product with their brand name on it. If they were fair dinkum, they'd be more specific than saying they're planning to release the product maybe later this year or some time next year. Just had a look at the online store from O/S, selling online 1 litre bottles only with the option of a "gift pack" so you can put your "beer" into a nice beer bottle. I still reckon it's vapourware; AKA publicity stunt, & the fact I even bothered to look it up means it's working. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, & walks like a duck, it's probably at least a mallard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captncruise Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 I have a Sodastream unit and wondered if I could use it to carbonate the occasional flat beer that I sometimes get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Captain!! Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 1 hour ago, captncruise said: I have a Sodastream unit and wondered if I could use it to carbonate the occasional flat beer that I sometimes get. Give it a crack. Its only beer, what’s the worst that could happen to a flat beer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captncruise Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 The First Mate mixed a Soda Stream syrup with water before carbonation and it foamed up all over flowed. She has given permission to try the flat beer as long as I do it in the garden. I figure it's just like carbonation in a keg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Von Blotto Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 In the garden It is like carbonation in a keg if you are using a sealed container. Best done while cold as well, far better gas absorption. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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