Single bottle force carbonating help.

[dnr]

After years of drinking more than is considered healthy, I'm taking a little hiatus and exploring other fun beverages. The passion is still there and I've switched to craft NA beers, hop waters, seltzers and hop teas. I still have pounds of hops and a bunch of teas, why not make my own? But I'm finding bottle conditioning individual small batch non:fermented liquids isn't working out.
I do not own a kegging setup and soda streams seem to be a recipe for disaster. Carbonator Caps were recommended somewhere online but I wanted to ask this group. I want to make 1 liter bottles of my own hop tea or hop water then carbonate.

Please help me be healthier while drinking that hoppy goodness I love!
Thanks!

 

[fluketamer]

i use carb caps and tee pieces to serve beer out of amber PET bottles.

i have since started using the carb caps to carb individual 500 ml clear pet bottles for traveling. i jump the beer liquid to liquid post to a pet bottle so as to leave behind any sediment. squeeze out the air. attach the carb cap and blast it . let it sit a few days in fridge maybe one or two more blasts and its carbed up and ready to venture out of the kegerator for a trip to the cabin, dock, or brother in laws house. lol
you can guage the degree of carbonation by how hard to the pet bottle is . after dong a few you will get the feel for how much gas to use.
it works exceptionally well.

you will still need co2. if you dont want to invest in a full kegging setup. get a mini reg and adaptor and use the sodastream. heres a good videos of what you want to do:

 

[MaxStout]

If you use carbonator caps you'll still need a small CO2 cylinder with a regulator, a few feet of gas line and a gas disconnect. If you're not kegging and all you want to do is force-carb bottles of soda, 5 lbs. of CO2 will last years.

 

[fred588]

After years of drinking more than is considered healthy, I'm taking a little hiatus and exploring other fun beverages. The passion is still there and I've switched to craft NA beers, hop waters, seltzers and hop teas. I still have pounds of hops and a bunch of teas, why not make my own? But I'm finding bottle conditioning individual small batch non:fermented liquids isn't working out.
I do not own a kegging setup and soda streams seem to be a recipe for disaster. Carbonator Caps were recommended somewhere online but I wanted to ask this group. I want to make 1 liter bottles of my own hop tea or hop water then carbonate.

Please help me be healthier while drinking that hoppy goodness I love!
Thanks!

I do exactly that and it works well for most things. Make sure the water is as cold as possible, then attach the bottle to the caps. Adjust the pressure from your CO2 tank to about 28 pounds and turn it on. Shake the bottle until no more bubbles enter. I mostly do just water. If you try other things, try to avoid anything that has any kind of suspended particles - these tend to become centers where the gas comes out of solution, resulting in accelerated loss of carbonation.

 

[fluketamer]

i just made my first seltzer for the swmbo.

it was very easy in a PET bottle with carb cap.

i took two tea bags of cherry rose hibiscus tea and steeped them for 10 mins in a cup of filtered water.

cooled and added 2 liters of filtered water to a PET bottle. then attached carb cap and forced carb by shaking while attached to the gas. yo can fell the gas go in to the liquid and the bottle get softer as you shake it its pretty cool.

this was too easy.

i can see this working with fresh fruit juices squeezed through a bag.