Project:Open soft drinks

Open soft drinks
Created	2010-08-09
Members	roberthl
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Would like to start making open source soft drinks.

The most popular non-alcoholic soft drinks in the space seem to be Coca-Cola, Dr Pepper, and Sprite. Others such as Fanta seem to be used as a last measure only. There has also been significant interest in making Ginger Beer, but this has not really been in stock at the space a whole lot.

Carbonated water ingredients (18 litres)

Ingredient	Needed per batch	Stocked
Sugar	375 g	None
Dry bread yeast	1 tsp	None
Water	18000 ml	∞

OpenCola ingredients

Flavour

Ingredient	Needed per batch	Stocked
Orange oil	3.50 ml	10 ml (maybe)
Lemon oil	1.00 ml	10 ml (maybe)
Nutmeg oil	1.00 ml	10 ml (maybe)
Cassia oil	1.25 ml	None
Coriander oil	0.25 ml	10 ml (maybe)
Neroli oil	0.25 ml	None
Lime oil	2.75 ml	None
Lavender oil	0.25 ml	10 ml (maybe)
Gum arabic	10.0 g	100 g
Water	3.00 ml	∞

Some of these are available from a place such as http://www.essentialoilsonline.co.uk/acatalog/Organic_Essential_Oils_.html

Syrup (5 litres)

Ingredient	Needed per batch	Stocked
Flavour	2 tsp	None
Citric acid	3.5 tsp	100 g
Water	2300 ml	∞
Plain white granulated sugar	2360 g	None
Caffeine	0.5 tsp	None
Caramel colour	30 ml	None

Try http://www.instructables.com/id/Extracting-almost-pure-Caffeine-from-Caffeine-Pi/ Also pure caffeine can be bought easily here http://www.myprotein.com/uk/products/caffeine £4 for 100g. Probably cheaper than extraction.

Cola (30 litres)

Ingredient	Needed per batch	Stocked
Syrup	5000 ml	None
Carbonated water	25000 ml	None

Equipment

• Pipettes (ordered)
• Small Pyrex beaker (ordered)
• 2 litre jug
• Small whisk
• Large wooden spoon
• Funnel
• Empty 2 litre bottles

Recipe

• OpenCola Recipe
• Cube Cola Recipe - adapted from OpenCola originally after years of refinement by an independent cinema.