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I have a SodaStream which I use to make soda water. My wife recently started purchasing very tasty, but relatively expensive soda drinks from the store, including "Rose Lemonade" (here: http://www.amazon.com/Fentimans-Rose-Lemonade-Soda-Bottle/dp/B00513EV60), and a pumkin ginger root beer. I offered to try to make equivalents at home, which worked out really well, by combining Torani Syrup, fresh ingredients (like Ginger Juice from Centrifugal juicer, or Lemon Juice from a lemon), and soda water from the Soda Stream.

OK, so everything is great, except now when I make a batch, my Soda Stream bottle is "in use" until we finish that batch. So I bought a few of these on Amazon, with rubber gasket seals: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000CFMBL/.

But here's the problem:

when I transfer the soda water from the Soda Stream bottle to the glass bottle, it fizzes up and loses most of it's carbonation. Is there any way to avoid this, or a technique I can use to pour it with less "fizz loss"?

Please let me know if more information would be helpful, and thanks so much!!!

TFD
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Shamir Colloff
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More sodastream bottles is the best option if you are starting from a sodastream.

The best other alternative is to act just like a really old-fashioned soda counter.

  • Mix and store your syrups/flavors.
  • Measure syrup into the glass.
  • Add plain soda-water and mix.

Thus, your sodastream bottle only ever has plain carbonated water in it, not a specific flavor.

Ecnerwal
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Carbonated liquids lose their carbonation very quickly when at room temperature, when agitated, and when pushed through small orifices at room pressure.

You can't change the "small orifices" part due to your bottle design (and, honestly, these aren't that small so it isn't as bad as, say, a needle valve). But you can change the temperature. Cool the liquid until almost icy before charging it, then pour slowly (reduced agitation) into a pre-chilled glass bottle. If you can, tilt the bottle so it runs down the side of the bottle inside, rather than as a stream into the liquid on the bottom.

The biggest difference will be made by making sure everything is ice cold, though.

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