Week Off: Gone Canoeing
Added 2025-07-27 12:08:11 +0000 UTCThis week I will be away, deep in the woods of Algonquin Park, so if you have any questions, I will answer them when I get back to civilization.
I do have some topics in the queue, and here is the short list of ones that are presently in the works:
1. Grapefruit Soda using the emulsion technique, along with flavour compounds
2. How to Make Caramel Type IV for colouring and emulsification
3. A discussion video on shelf-stability, which is the current #1 question I get.
4. Alternative Preservatives, like Nisin and Polylysine
5. Non-Caloric Sweeteners, I get a lot of questions about stevia, monk fruit and others.
6. Grape Soda - the classic 1950s flavoured version.
7. Irn Bru
8. Clear Malt Beverages
9. Non-Alcoholic Gin - this one is tricky, but being worked on.
10. And a bunch of flavour videos, like Crystal Cola and Old Spice cola.
Feel free to add requests in the comment section, my current list of topics is at 665. Whenever I get an idea or find some interesting recipe, patent or research paper I add it to a Notion database and it just keeps growing. But if you want to see something, I probably have something related in the list, so speak up.
And as usual, if you've sent me a question but I haven't replied it usually means it got lost somewhere or I missed it. Often due to me checking messages on my phone and forgetting to flag them for a response. So just resend them and I will get you a response.
Comments
A good trip was had, thanks. You check out The Good Scent Company site using this seach tool: https://www.perfumersearch.com/TGSC.html for compounds. The owner of the site died a few years ago so it is slowly degrading. You can also checkout companies, like https://fraterworks.com/collections/latest-arrivals that provide some hyped aromas/tastes. Not everything is approved for food/beverage, but for the ones that are you can get the descriptions.
Darcy S. O'Neil
2025-08-11 12:22:59 +0000 UTCI hope you've had a great holiday! One question if you have the time: where is a good place to look for figuring out what esters and terpenes actually smell and taste like? Years ago I had an apple soda at the coca-cola museum and fell in love with it but haven't seen anything like it since. Thanks!
Jonathan Copperfall
2025-08-09 20:12:14 +0000 UTCYou can combine everything into the keg and carbonate it just like beer, old soda fountains did this for popular beverages, like root beer and ginger beer. I can add a video to the queue as I need to finish off a few things on the carbonation series. Cheers
Darcy S. O'Neil
2025-08-05 00:56:21 +0000 UTCDarcy- I know you have covered a similar topic previously on carbonating water for an on tap system, but I would like to see how to force carbonate a corny keg with soda syrup and water. I know you can add the syrup to seltzer water, but I like the idea of having the entire system on tap in a restaurant setting which only requires someone to pull a handle rather than make a mixed drink. I operate a fast pace fast-food restaurant of sorts and would love to see any suggestions to carbonating the entire mix and having it ready to go on tap. Thank you
Drew Jordan
2025-08-03 01:43:19 +0000 UTC
