re: homemade soda water tap/dispenser

all the stuff came in, and I filled up a CO2 bottle.



I need to go get a tee for my water line and figure out where/how I’m going to mount the beer tap on the wall. Hopefully will be up and running this weekend

Sounds like you jumped right in. I havent done much other than spend a bunch of time looking for a faucet for the soda water that could mount on my sink. Most what I found was bulky taps and i was hoping for something slim like a water filter faucet. I think I do need a special faucet since I've read that the carbonated water shouldn't ever see bare copper or brass since its acidic and can create a poison or something.

I like the idea of the faucet for sink to catch accidental spills or fault leaks. I've heard of some bad stories from people leaving their pot fillers over the stove dripping and come back home to a flooded floor. There is zero forgivance for leaving it dripping without a sink underneath obviously

I'll look into them. Mini fridge is the route I was planning on too. I have a decent sized conditioned crawlspace so hoping to fit everything under the floor and just run a hose up to the sink area.

so there are some kinks to work out LOL

I didn’t realize the little fridge was turned down to subarctic and my soda discharge line froze up overnight. At least I know the fridge works.

and I didn’t put a check valve in the supply line (I couldn’t find one) and I’ve got carbonated water coming out the sink

ordered a valve and turned down the fridge. Once it thaws I can use it I can just close the supply line valve once the keg is full until the check valve comes in

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The Sex Deck

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...furiously searching post history.

line is thawed I have a good steady temp now and steady carbonation at 25psi. It’s glorious

Here’s some shitty pix. We’re going to make some ginger and lemon/lime syrups for squirt bottles and see how that does

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1/2 cup plus 2 tsp sugar juice of 4 limes juice of 1/2 a lemon 1/2 cup water

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How much tequila?

so i ran thru 5 gal CO2 in 2.5 weeks...used it almost every day but only to fill cups. does that sound right? i have outgoing pressure set at 25psi...

or do i have a leak somewhere?
i checked everywhere i thought i should with soapy water when i hooked it up

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i ran thru 5 gal CO2 in 2.5 weeks...used it almost every day but only to fill cups. does that sound right? i have outgoing pressure set at 25psi...

or do i have a leak somewhere?

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obviously you meant 5lb cylinder. sure seems like you have a leak. My soda-stream cylinders last about that long with me drinking 1.5 liters per day. One of those cylinders is about 1/5 the size of a 5lb. There is also a good bit of "waste" gas with the way sodastream works. I'd think your setup would be almost 100% efficient.

Maybe you didn't get a full tank?

airgas has always just swapped whether a 5lb or 20. First time I wasn't thrilled to give up my aluminum cylinder for a heavy-arse metal one but I'm over that now. They sometimes didn't have the 5lb in stock because its not a common thing. But that this is at a small location in MS.