Reddit reviews CarbaCap Carbonation System C02 Coupling To Carbonate Soda Beer Juice Water

Buy this and you can use your keg CO2 lines to carb it up in a soda bottle. You just gotta drink it relatively quickly or it'll show signs of oxidation soon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01039C0Z0/ref=mp_s_a_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1505856195&sr=8-8&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=carbonation+cap&dpPl=1&dpID=410qbFqxN3L&ref=plSrch

you don't have to use a soda stream to make your own soda! I found a 5lb canister of CO2 on craigslist. It came with a regulator. Then I purchased one of these. It screws onto an empty 2 liter bottle. Squeeze all the air out of the 2 liter, put on the cap, turn on the regulator, shake vigorously, an you have soda water. Costs me about 10 cents a bottle.

You could just use a plastic bottle and a carbonator cap.

Very simple and easy to use.
Goes like this:

• Tank
  
• Regulator
  
• Hose
  
• In-line backflow preventer (optional, but cheap, if you plan to make sugary drinks then I'd recommend it to keep from contaminating your line with sugar)
  
• Carbonation quick-release coupler & cap
  
• 2-liter plastic bottle
  
  At the links above, pretty much everything is shown in the Amazon "frequently bought together" listing down the page.
  
  All you do is fill the 2-liter bottle with cold water, squeeze it (to create some room to expand) and put the cap on while squeezing it.
  Click it to the coupler, turn the gas on, and shake the 2-liter bottle for a minute to mix the co2 into the water (or juice, or wine, or beer).
  
  Done!
  Put in fridge. Make some more!
  
  First time you set it up, play with the regulator setting to get the level of carbonation you prefer, and after that you don't have to mess with it again. Also, cold water carbonates easier.
  
  

I’ve read here; I think one of the Brülosophy guys, about using a soda bottle with a carb cap to sort of inject the gelatin solution into the keg via the gas in port.

Here’s a plan I’ve been thinking about:

• Pour warm gelatin solution into clean sanitized soda bottle.
  
  
• Affix carbonation cap. (See edit below)
  
  
• Squeeze out headspace.
  
  
• Add CO2 via carb cap. Purge, repeat.
  
  
• Let sit in waterbath if concerned about getting chilled.
  
  
• Clean and sanitize two gas disconnects and a short length of beer line. Connect two gas disconnects, one on each end of the line. (Think about doing a CO2 purge of that line.)
  
  
• Pressurize bottle of gelatin solution more than PSI in keg; vent CO2 from keg to a low PSI.
  
  
• Connect gas disconnect to carb cap.
  
  
• Ready?; connect other end gas disconnect to the gas in post of the keg.
  
  
• Hypothesis: the pressurized warm gelatin solution shoots into the keg under pressure; squeeze bottle to get all the gelatin out if need be.
  
  
• Pressurize keg (and purge for good measure?)
  
  
• Swirl. Chill.
  
  Potential downsides: even a warm solution might quick-chill on contact with cold metal of gas post and cause a gum-up of gelatin?
  
  Edit: there are various kinds of carbonation caps. If using the one with a barbed part, then connect a line of tube to that and hold upright when sending gelatin in. If using the kind without the barb, hold the soda bottle upside down.
  
  Visual Example of barbed:
  
  https://www.beveragefactory.com/draftbeer/couplers/kmcbcp-carbonation-cap.html?catargetid=320012430000341477&cadevice=m&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI2MiP96363QIVUZF-Ch3HewZrEAQYAiABEgI7KvD_BwE
  
  Visual Examples of ones without:
  
  https://www.homebrewing.org/Carbonation-Cap-Stainless-Steel_p_3061.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=shopping&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI4-7qraz63QIVmKDsCh3m-wsaEAQYAiABEgK5jfD_BwE
  
  https://www.amazon.com/Carbonation-Carbacap-Coupling-Carbonate-Fruit/dp/B01039C0Z0
  
  Edit 2: rewording
  

Congrats on the wedding! I would assume the culprit is not capping the bottles right away. Unlike traditional bottling that has bottle re-fermentation happening to carbonate the beers, beer guns rely on the carbonation already in solution from the keg, so if those were left out a good portion of that CO2 may come out of solution. As far as salvation goes, I would say either enjoy your cask NEIPA and Saison, or use a PET bottle cap carbonator when you're ready to drink to carbonate up. I bring my beers to my homebrew club like this and I think it would be the best way to get both a carbonated beer as well as avoid oxidation as much as possible, with the caveat that you would have to pour from bottle to bottle, cap and carbonate when you're ready to drink one of those beers. You could do a couple at a time (if you have multiple caps) and just drink the beers within 24hrs of the transfer. If you did go this route, you could even use one cap, leave the cap on while the CO2 dissolves into solution, then swap for a standard PET cap and move the carbonator cap to the next bottle.

https://www.amazon.com/Carbonation-Carbacap-Coupling-Carbonate-Fruit/dp/B01039C0Z0

Live and learn I suppose. Once you use your equipment enough you will be able to start dialing in your volumes. Now you know for this style of beer that you don't need as much bottling volume. I usually have a little bit left over that I'll fill a plastic bottle with then carb using a carb cap. It's nice to have a little sample of it carbonated

Just an FYI, you could cut out the sodastream alltogether with one of these:

https://www.amazon.com/Carbonation-Carbacap-Coupling-Carbonate-Fruit/dp/B01039C0Z0

Just pop it on a bottle and attach your CO2 line using the same ball lock that you use to attach it to a keg. I watched my LHB use it to carbonate a 1 liter bottle of water in about 30 seconds.

White Russians, duh!


Seriously tho, you might consider getting a carbonator cap so you can run thru a few smaller batches before you go all in. I've successfully carbonated stuff like mead, sake, and white whine using this cap and a standard soda bottle. I carbonate at 50 psi or so, which is close to club soda levels of carbonation. 30-40 gives you smaller bubbles like San Pelligrino.

I like the idea of a fizzy Hemingway Daiquiri, myself.

Alternatively, build your own system out of homebrew parts and a few of these, save even more money, and get a sense of satisfaction every time you use something you put together yourself.

see if you can purchase one of these:
https://www.amazon.com/Carbonation-Carbacap-Coupling-Carbonate-Fruit/dp/B01039C0Z0/ref=pd_sim_328_6?ie=UTF8&dpID=41PaQkKulFL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_&psc=1&refRID=FSRQ012AAS1W8W5868W4

http://www.amazon.com/Carbonation-Carbacap-Coupling-Carbonate-Fruit/dp/B01039C0Z0

Or this

Dudebro. You need one (some?) of these:

http://www.amazon.com/Carbonation-Carbacap-Coupling-Carbonate-Fruit/dp/B01039C0Z0

I'm assuming that if you have a keg, you have a kegerator, and therefore have a CO² tank at the ready. As long as you have proper regulation and a ball lock connector, you're in business.

The way these things work: first, get a plastic bottle--20 oz, 2 liter, whatever. If you're going to serve within a couple of hours, I usually just clean/rinse. If you're going to keep it several days, everything needs to soak in sanitizer. Fill the bottle with however much beer you want to take, but make sure to leave at least some headroom. Take the bottle to the sink, screw the cap on tightly, depress the pin with a screwdriver or your thumbnail or something, and squeeze all of the foam out until you're squeezing beer out. Release the pin while being careful not to let the bottle suck any air back in. Then you just plug your CO² to the cap, the bottle pressurizes, you're in business. I tend to find hitting it with about 20psi works well--you want to be higher than serving pressure.

I can't tell you how much easier and expedient it is to use these carb caps instead of traditional bottling.

I'd like to find something that I could pop the ball-lock connector right on, currently I just use a keg filled with sanitizer.

Something like this but works for both gas and liquid disconnects
http://www.amazon.com/Carbonation-Carbacap-Coupling-Carbonate-Fruit/dp/B01039C0Z0