Hey /ck/, I've been trying to cut back on how much over processed junk I consume, however, I am hopelessly addicted to soda. I was wondering if making my own soda at home is possible, and if so what I would need to do it?

Step 1: Stop being a bitch
Step 2: Repeat step one
Step 3: Drink water

>>21476554 (OP)
Yes it is. You need a soda stream and syrup. Plus CO2 cartridges. This will allow you to produce soda at home. They sell knock off soda syrup for the system if you are too lazy to make it.

You can make the syrup yourself, there is a YT channel that specializes in this, just watch that. You need essential oils, sugar, spices, and citrus. Select based on what you want to make.

Oh and if you want caffeine or some shit, they do have pills/powder for that.

>>21476578
Any idea what the youtube channel is called?

>>21476561
This is really the best way.

>>21476578
you can do all this or just buy bottles of seltzer/club soda and add whatever sweetener and flavorings you want

>>21476593
Yes, it's called syrup for pathetic weak cuckolds

>>21476607
Cucka Cola lmao

>>21476554 (OP)
If you can't drink completely flat warm soda you're addicted to the fizz and the flavoring. The sugar can be removed. Try a good unsweetened flavored seltzer with a handful of crushed berries, orange, or lemon/lime pulped into it. It's not bad

>>21476554 (OP)
honestly wouldn't it be easier to brew your own iced tea? you control how much sugar goes in, what type, if any at all
there's plenty of things you can steep that add flavor without needing sugar.

>>21476554 (OP)
might as well buy beer if you enjoy the taste of shit that much

What are you addicted to? Sparkling water or sugar water?
Carbon dioxide is not addictive so I assume sugar water. Start by just not buying this shit, then you won't have it and will just drink water. It's easy.

>>21476554 (OP)
Drink sparkling water. Waterloo and Bubbly are pretty good.

>>21476561
fpbp

buy seltzer if you need to ween

>>21476554 (OP)
A lot of good suggestions already, lemonade is also a simple but tasty drink to make.

>>21477365
>buy seltzer if you need to ween
Do you approve of people that do that, or are you judgmental of weeners?

Open Soda was a short lived techie fad a couple of decades ago. Their instructions and recipes are still online.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCola_(drink)

>>21477365
>>21477531
im a weener, been weenin for years m8, there's no getting off the fizz train

>>21476600
Best answer

>>21476578
>>21476554 (OP)
Yes, it's actually pretty easy desu. Don't waste your money on sodastram crap, make a ginger bug so you can make naturally fermented drinks. Get a couple tablespoons of chopped ginger and sugar, mix in 2 cups of water. Add 1 teaspoon of chopped ginger and sugar each day, leaving at room temp. After 5 days or so it'll be fizzy. You use this to kickstart fermentation in your drinks.

Start with ginger beer, make a wort from a bunch of chopped ginger, 4 cups of water and 2 cups of sugar, simmer it for 30 min. Let the wort cool and pour it into a gallon jug, with juice of 1 lemon and 1 cup strained ginger bug. After 48 hours strain and funnel into flip top bottles, and let ferment another 24 to 48 hours at room temp. Wa la, you've got naturally fermented probiotic soda. You can expirement with all kinds of flavors, I made a really good raspberry soda recently.

>>21477921
just stop nigga it's not that hard
I drank coke for like 10 years straight and realized I was fat so I just stopped buying it, which also kept me from drinking it
sucked for a few weeks but now I don't drink soda unless it's a holiday cause my folks will buy a pack

>>21478003
>ginger bug
Stupidest fucking internet meme, just put in a sprinkle of wine yeast and you'll get a way better result.

>>21478020
You could use regular bakers yeast if you want, but why would you do that when a ginger bug is basically free?

>>21476554 (OP)
bit of juice or syrup cordial etc with sanpellegrino montellier etc poured over. stir stick (handle of spoon).

>>21476554 (OP)
If you need sugar so badly then balance it out with exercise. Why not just take the opportunity to add something positive to your routine instead of doing something that feels like abstinence? Just keep the macrosplit clean and consume only soda before a workout or something. Go on a run.

Source: I get the $1 medium soda at taco bell for their happy hour promotion and I drink a gallon of baja blast before I head to the gym and run until it closes in the late afternoon (lame ass gym)

I like baja blast solely because of the color

>>21476554 (OP)
Sad fat fuck.

Absolute state of mutts

>>21476554 (OP)
try topo chico, its the only sparkling water ive tried that doesnt taste like shit and satisfies the soda itch for me

>>21480880
Rent free

>>21476554 (OP)
Making Soda at home is a fucking pain in the ass, see >>21476578
I recommend picrel for a soda fix. Tastes like pop, no bitter aftertaste, 0 calories. Might give you cancer but who gives a fuck. Walmart sells it in bottles and in cans. It's branded Clear Canadian if you're a leaf.

At some point though I gave up even on this and I have regressed back to fucking flavored water. But I still don't want shitloads of sugar, so I get "Dole Lemonade Variety Pack Powder Mix". 0 Calories, actually has a *few* nutrients in it, not expensive as fuck. I just grab 4 packets and snip them open and mix with a 1 liter pitcher of water like it's kool-aid.

I still have the clear american around but don't drink it as much. Too acidic, need more water. Instead I drink Celsius 12 oz energy drinks for my caffeine fix, same or more caffeine as a monster and 2-3 bucks cheaper for a 12 pack. Obviously 12 oz is less than the 16oz in a 'normal' tall can but I consider that a benefit.

>>21476593

Art of Drink is one

>>21476554 (OP)
the best soda I ever had was at a renaissance fair in like 2004 and they served all the homemade soda out of kegs into corked glass wine bottles for like a dollar.

>>21478245
Regular bakers yeast will taste like shit
Wine yeast is not that much more expensive and you need a small amount anyways
"ginger bug" will cost you 100x in ginger and time spent