The Soda Stream Experiment

[JoKing]

I hear you all asking yourselves... "What do I do with this 21 Liters of fermented beer, when I can only fit 20 to the lip of my corny?" Well - I have the answer for you... either drink it flat, or chuck it in the soda stream machine! Step1: When you are half way through racking into the keg, fill up a soda stream bottle.

Make sure you dont overfill the bottle.

Step 3: Give it a few nudges of CO2 - dont pump it up too much.

Step 4: Drink the fizzy beer!!! This is the light ale that I brewed with my home grown Danscade. Initially I thought that the beer had acetaldehyde in it, but upon closer inspection I have discovered that it is aroma contributions from my hopping. It's like fresh green pears - and nectarines. Definately different to Cascade. Still needs conditioning though - and cold is the way to go. Cheers.

[Reviled]

I normally bottle condition the extra litre, I have a box of odd bottles and it quickly builds up - makes for good drinking when the kegs long gone..

[studio1]

choice. Just last week I scored a soda stream machine w gas bottle for $1 from local op shop. need some bottles though. I also got one of those carbonation caps that you can put onto any plastice bottle and carb with the keg.

[James P]

My extra ends up as "starter juice" for my yeast! Freeze it in snaplock bags.

[JoKing]

When I kegged my Red Ale, I had to dip the lid into the surface of the beer in the keg! When I turned the gas on - you could hear the bubbles going in! Then - when I was burping the keg, beeg went flying out of that hole too!

[James P]

I hop you have a non return valve on your regulator!

[JoKing]

Dont worry - I learned that lesson mate!

[Reviled]

Try force carbing with a corny thats filled too much ;-/ Also - I cant believe how many people cheap out on a $20 non return valve?!?! Craziness!

[JoKing]

I drank a liter out of that keg - like straight away... I wanted to try the beer through my creamer. It was pretty crap.

[Reviled]

Creamer?

[JoKing]

Yeah - like what they use on nitro beers to cream up the head with no carbonation.