Since we had a bit of ginger root laying around and a few plastic soda bottles, we decided to try out making soda for the first time. It’s a very simple process, some more simple than others, and to our slight surprise, it actually worked!
I don’t know what the exact recipe we used was but it wasn’t all that great so we’ll have to do some tweaking and seeking for new ginger ale recipes. But after bottling, we waited 48 long hours, refrigerated the bottles to stop the fermentation process and waited until it was cool enough to drink. There was no doubt about it that we had carbonation. When we added ice to the glass, it also fizzed up again just like a real soda. It unfortunately just needed some different combination of ingredients because we just didn’t like the final taste.
One of the cool things about making your own soda is that if you don’t finish the bottle, you can leave it out, let the fermentation process start again and have a fizzy soda again in 24-48 hours. Pretty smooth in my opinion. Would be great if regular products did that! 😉
I can’t wait to try making our own cream soda, which should be no trouble at all. And we’re looking forward to finding a few more recipes too play around with. There’s no telling what crazy avenues our soda making escapades may take…and with any luck, we can use some fresh ingredients from our own garden too!
