Homemade Diet Coke

Cutwolf said:

Hi all --

My gf is a fountain diet coke addict. Bottled or canned is not the same, she likes the fresh from the fountain diet coke.

I was thinking some sort of small at home kit would be a good x-mas present.

I saw the Penguin Sodastream, but the flavors are all very generic and supposedly don't taste like the real thing.

Knowing my GF, if it doesn't taste like the real thing, the gift will be a dud.

So, a few questions:

1) Is it possible to buy real diet coke syrup anywhere?

2) Would the real diet coke syrup work with the Penguin Sodastream?

3) If not, what's the cheapest and easiest way to provide her the fountain soda experience at home?

Thanks all

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beninan said:

just going out on a limb here:
buy a kegging setup with a 5 gallon keg and a tank of CO2 and 5 gallons of bottled diet coke. sanitize the keg and dump in the 5 gallons of coke and carbonate. Maybe?
I'm not sure if that would make much difference in the taste tho.

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Cutwolf said:

I picked up Diet Coke syrup at SAMs club (was told it's usually sold there and found it).

Will it work with the soda stream products?

Also, I'll give that new Brunswick place a call. Thx!

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Cutwolf said:

So, just to be clear, if I use 20 oz of soda water made with the penguin, I'd use a little over 3.5 oz of the real diet coke syrup?

Whereas using the sodastream syrups, I'd only use 1 oz or so?

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