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Another "Fizz" Brainstorm?
Brewing Suppliers list tablets to add carbonation when bottling; they are nothing more than high-priced sugar tablets.
Now, products like Alka-Seltzer carbonate a glass of water very well, while adding medication.
Why not use a "medicine-less" Alka-Seltzer-type mixture to produce carbonation when bottling? It would eliminate the sediment, and if properly made, would add no flavor of any kind.
Or, is something like this already on the market, to anyone's knowledge?
I'm thinking Citric Acid and Potassium Carbonate, in the right proportions, would work OK. Using a potassium compound eliminates adding sodium, which we already consume too much of anyway, and potassium is an absolutely essential nutrient as it regulates the heart's beating.
An added benefit would be eliminating the days waiting for sugar carbonation to complete (I'm impatient!).
Any thoughts on this ? imp
I think the problem would be how it would act, or affect the body of the beer, you also have to take the yeast into consideration, Yeast are very fickle creatures, you can get them to pretty much do what you want, but sometimes they suprise you .
I think pop rocks are just that, someones attempt at dried soda pop, but they found it worked much better as a candy
imp wrote:
An added benefit would be eliminating the days waiting for sugar carbonation to complete (I'm impatient!).
Any thoughts on this ? imp
Alka seltzer doesn't carbonate the water, it just makes freely escaping gas (I don't even know if its CO2).
So if you did have some sort of product, you'd have to wait for the gas created to get reabsorbed into the beer.
Which you talk a day or two (faster at cold temps).
Also you'd have to cap each bottle pretty quickly because you'd be loosing gas as soon as the beer was added to a bottle with the tablet in it.
Interesting idea, I guess.
brewchez wrote:
.........Alka seltzer doesn't carbonate the water, it just makes freely escaping gas (I don't even know if its CO2).
So if you did have some sort of product, you'd have to wait for the gas created to get reabsorbed into the beer.
Which you talk a day or two (faster at cold temps).
Also you'd have to cap each bottle pretty quickly because you'd be loosing gas as soon as the beer was added to a bottle with the tablet in it.
Interesting idea, I guess.
Actually, Alka Seltzer WILL carbonate water if pressure is maintained, as by capping a bottle containing the fizzing material. And, yes, it does produce CO2.
CO2 is very soluble in water, so much so that distilled water exposed to air for only a short time becomes no longer "pure" water, in that CO2 in the air immediately dissolves in the water, making it slightly acidic, or "impure". Beer wort is slighly acidic; if one drops a teaspoon of baking soda in a bottle of it, and caps it right away, the CO2 produced immediately begins dissolving in the liquid, the carbonation process taking only minutes, not days. Unfortunately, baking soda tastes lousy, and adds sodium. imp
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