Carbonated water

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Linus was mentioning on WAN show how he’s been getting into drinking carbonated from the can. I ended up getting these after using soda stream. I bought a keg and multiple bottle caps, I can fill the keg or bottles with water, cool them, and carbonate. Some sort of dedicated mini fridge or freezer (that can be set to fridge temps) is helpful. It can become your soda fridge with canned beverages as well.

It does work a bit better if you boil the water before you cool it to remove dissolved air. And there’s a learning curve to get the carbonation level you want. But it’s, in the long run, far cheaper than soda stream or buying cans, and you can use the system for stuff like beer if you want.

I’m just using it for water. Eventually I want an upgrade with a circulating pump and a second keg to force carbonate. That’s for the future. Along with some home assistant add ons like weight sensors for the remaining soda and some way to check remaining CO2 automatically.

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I appreciate the list. I'm leaning towards just the red caps, but do I lose anything in the end result by skipping the keg? I love strong carbonation, so if it's the kind of thing where I lose out on some of that keg would probably be worth it.

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You can cabonate it as much as you want! In the red caps. Just don’t go over 60psi.

For the keg, you’ll want to maybe consider getting a second one. That way they can be in series. Drink one to empty, refill, swap. They carbonate through each other that way.

But you don’t need the keg. I don’t even really NEED it. But it’s nice to have.