The Soda Club: Tyler Durden Approved

I drink soda and I shouldn’t. I mean, really shouldn’t – carbonation makes my life a living hell sometimes due to the constriction I feel in my esoph.. you know what? You probably don’t care. Hell, I rarely care which is why I drink it regardless – but when I saw a clip about the Soda Club and their soda-making machines, I was entranced. No, not just entranced – I was emotionally invested.

However, part of me wonders if there is a reason for all these little things we buy at the stores. Soda nowadays is pretty cheap if you get it off-brand, but if I mean even if you don’t – soda isn’t that crazy expensive to someone who doesn’t drink it incredibly often. For those who do though, I can’t really understand why this wasn’t thought of sooner! When you’re so used to just going to the store and grabbing yourself a bottle – I guess it’s something simplistic and not another added notch on your daily grind. After a couple of weeks of having the Soda Club machine, I found I stopped wanting to buy soda at stores altogether. I’d stand in the aisle and shrug a shoulder, opting for tea if I was on the go. See, when you can just as easily make it at home and the taste difference isn’t really there - you start to see why the machine has such value.

When I first got it, I was a bit perplexed on how to set it up. When you see the insane markings on the box about controlled gases being contained inside, you start to ponder if having a tank of the stuff in your kitchen is an awesome idea. However, for the sake of journalism - I surged forward. Once I got the tank installed into the sleek black and silver machine, I immediately wanted to start making an insane amount of soda. Soda Club nicely hooked me up with a plentiful amount of soda mixes (Each container of concentrated soda mix makes 12 Liters, or if they’re too strong and use half-cups? 24 Liters of soda.) and an extra fanciful steel Liter bottle as well. I searched through all the flavors and nabbed “Root Beer” as my first drink of choice.

You fill up the bottle with water up until you hit the fill-line and then screw the bottle into the base of the Soda Club machine. Once you’ve done this, you press the top button until it’s all the way down and it makes this loud, almost mind-deafening quacking noise. Imagine if you jumped with both feet onto a duck. Go ahead, imagine it. That’s kinda what the soda machine sounds like, just long and drawn out and if you want normal carbonation, you have to do it at least six times. You then add the flavoring to the water after you’ve removed it from the machine and twist it around a little bit once the lid is on. There. You have soda. Not only do you have soda, but it’s in an air-tight bottle for safe keeping. I’ve kept one bottle of soda from going flat for over seven days. Beat that, Coke and Pepsi.

The interesting tale behind the Soda Club machine is not the fact it gives you yet another appliance to tinker with in your kitchen, but it’s a huge conversation piece. I must’ve made at least ten liters of soda in the first day of owning it because everyone who came over wanted to try it out. Making your own soda, combining sodas — honestly, nobody even thinks to buy the stuff in this house anymore because making it is so easy and readily available.

If you’re unbelievably pressed for time and really enjoy a fizzy drink every now and then and for a quarter of the price of all that soda you bought last year - get a machine from Soda Club. If you’re just picky and want to make sure you’re not filling your body with useless chemicals and sugar - get a machine from Soda Club. If you’re lazy as hell and you’re just not wanting to pry yourself away from WoW long enough to buy one? Disconnect the modem right now and walk away. You’ll thank me later.