The café I'm running owner's main biz is a "gourmet soda" shop & deli. = Debi & I stopped in today to check it out (and to pick up a couple cases of = diet gourmet soda's for the café). While I was filling some mixed cases = Debi was checking out the wall wide coolers of endless soda's and handed me a = bottle saying we gotta try this. Manhattan Special brand Espresso Coffee Soda = (diet version). Dang if it isn't half bad! I'll probably have some to sample = at PNWG V but not like bottles for everyone @ $1.75 per bottle, $36 case of 24... That's the prices for the gourmet soda pop and place was doing a = brisk business today. Saw a number of people picking up cases. Over a dozen different non-diet just rootbeers, the only one I really recognized was = good old fashion Dad's. Sioux City brand saw root beer, sarsaparilla and = birch beer. (Everything's bottled of course) Fun stuff! Also had a Boylan Diet Cane Cola soda with lunch, very good distinctive taste with excellent finish and linger believe it not. Nothing like Coke = or Pepsi etc. Already tried the Boylan Diet Black Cherry Soda Thursday for = the drive home from the café which was also very good. Wondering about trying my hand at making a homeroast fresh "espresso = soda" using some kind of seltzer or carbonation injection thingy or something! Pacific Northwest Gathering Vhttp://home.comcast.net/~mckona/PNWGV.htmKona Kurmudgeon miKe mcKoffee URL to Rosto mods, FrankenFormer, some recipes etc:http://mdmint.home.comcast.net/coffee/Rosto_mod.htmUltimately the quest for Koffee Nirvana is a solitary path. To know I = must first not know. And in knowing know I know not. Each Personal = enlightenment found exploring the many divergent foot steps of Those who have gone = before. Sweet Maria's List - Searchable Archiveshttp://themeyers.org/HomeRoast/ |
--Apple-Mail-24-48278677 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset O-8859-1; delsp=yes; format=flowed Boylan is great stuff. Their diet sodas are sweetened with Splenda and Sunette instead of aspartame; and their regular sodas with cane sugar, not high fructose corn syrup. Costco sells their diet sodas (3 = bottles ea. of orange, root beer, cherry and cream) by the case. On May 26, 2007, at 4:36 PM, miKe mcKoffee wrote: <Snip> <Snip> <Snip> Sandy Andina www.sandyandina.com www.myspace.com/sandyandina --Apple-Mail-24-48278677 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset O-8859-1 Boylan is great stuff. Their = diet sodas are sweetened with Splenda and Sunette instead of aspartame; = and their regular sodas with cane sugar, not high fructose corn syrup. = Costco sells their diet sodas (3 bottles ea. of orange, root beer, = cherry and cream) by the case. On May 26, 2007, at 4:36 PM, = miKe mcKoffee wrote: |
I would love to see a Coffee Pop produced. I also love Boylan soda. The cane sugar really does make a difference. Jared On 5/26/07, Sandy Andina wrote: <Snip> t <Snip> |
That's what I said, it IS being produced. This is the stuff I was talking about:http://www.manhattanspecial.com/products_pure_espresso.html Pacific Northwest Gathering Vhttp://home.comcast.net/~mckona/PNWGV.htmKona Kurmudgeon miKe mcKoffee URL to Rosto mods, FrankenFormer, some recipes etc:http://mdmint.home.comcast.net/coffee/Rosto_mod.htmUltimately the quest for Koffee Nirvana is a solitary path. To know I must first not know. And in knowing know I know not. Each Personal enlightenment found exploring the many divergent foot steps of Those who have gone before. Sweet Maria's List - Searchable Archiveshttp://themeyers.org/HomeRoast/ From: homeroast-admin [mailto:homeroast-admin] On Behalf Of Jared Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2007 11:08 PM I would love to see a Coffee Pop produced. I also love Boylan soda. The cane sugar really does make a difference. Jared |
manhattan special dates back as far as i can remember.. nice italian treat. amazing the small things we take for granted. lol On 5/27/07, miKe mcKoffee wrote: <Snip> |
There is a brand that's imported from Italy we get here in the little Italian grocery stores (the ones that still exist!). I forgot the name - they carry orange soda, too - very, very tart. I never drink carbonated beverages. Hate them - and nearly forgot how I used to get this. The coffee soda they import is SO good.. Lynne On 5/27/07, Leo Zick wrote: <Snip> -- "In a world of conflict, the truth must survive." Kevin Sites, 9/16/2005 blog |
oranciata, limonata and chinotto? borgnine? On 5/27/07, Lynne Biziewski wrote: <Snip> |
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--Apple-Mail-1-111537679 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset -ASCII; format=flowed ha..ha..good one. L. On May 27, 2007, at 12:04 PM, Sandy Andina wrote: <Snip> --Apple-Mail-1-111537679 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/enriched; charset -ASCII ha..ha..good one. L. On May 27, 2007, at 12:04 PM, Sandy Andina wrote: Ernesto? On May 27, 2007, at 10:58 AM, Leo Zick wrote: Helveticaborgnine? HelveticaSandy Andina Helveticawww.sandyandina.com Helveticawww.myspace.com/sandyandina --Apple-Mail-1-111537679-- |
It wasn't the same brand as the well known oranciata - but their orange, or citrus sodas taste like that. Love that coffee one, tho - if I visit the Italian store before I move (it's closer to where I am now), I'll check to see what the brand is... good stuff. L. On 5/27/07, Leo Zick wrote: <Snip> -- "In a world of conflict, the truth must survive." Kevin Sites, 9/16/2005 blog |
Could it be Bibicaffe from De Sarro & Torchia. This is the one I can get on the mountain/Welches OR Tom On the foot hills of the Cascades Lynne Biziewski wrote: <Snip> Snip |
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Hi miKe, I tried putting coffee in my soda siphon. If you've never seen one, it is a thick-walled glass bottle (takes one liter of water with some room to spare) with screw-on top that has a hose running down into the bottle. The top has a holder that takes 8 g carbon dioxide cartridges to charge up the siphon. It does horrible things to the taste of good coffee. I think that the problem is that the carbon dioxide drops the pH (makes the coffee or water acidic). I'm sure that there are ways to get this to work, but I dropped it there. Cameron On 5/26/07, miKe mcKoffee wrote: <Snip> Debi <Snip> et <Snip> was <Snip> le <Snip> iet <Snip> isk <Snip> ood <Snip> or <Snip> he <Snip> " <Snip> t <Snip> nt <Snip> re. <Snip> ribes) go tohttp://sweetmarias.com/maillistinfo.html#personalsettings<Snip> -- ceforde |
cameron, I have something similar to what you describe but mine is powered from a 5lb co2 bottle and you can use a regular liter bottle from the store with a special cap. anyways, CO2 is very bitter / pungent to begin with, and the taste of the gas will definately throw off the coffee. Orange juice doesn't do too bad, or kool aid types of drinks. Milk. don't... coffee .. don't... tea... not too bad. id not waste too much time on the coffee, as it really doesn't take on any characteristics that'd make it pleasent when infusing with co2 Aaron |
I was thinking adding charged water to espresso might work rather than charging coffee itself. Might be able to squeeze out the ~$50 or so to get one before PNWG... Pacific Northwest Gathering Vhttp://home.comcast.net/~mckona/PNWGV.htmKona Konnaisseur miKe mcKoffee URL to Rosto mods, FrankenFormer, some recipes etc:http://mdmint.home.comcast.net/coffee/Rosto_mod.htmUltimately the quest for Koffee Nirvana is a solitary path. To know I must first not know. And in knowing know I know not. Each Personal enlightenment found exploring the many divergent foot steps of Those who have gone before. Sweet Maria's List - Searchable Archiveshttp://themeyers.org/HomeRoast/ <Snip> |
Use nitrous oxide instead of CO2, a la whipped cream. They sell tiny bottles of it for those whipped cream makers. The nitrous bottles look like the CO2 ones for BB guns. On 5/27/07, Aaron wrote: <Snip> -- Larry J Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there. - Mickey Friedman |
(San) Pellegrino? I'll look when I go out today...I think the Chinotto is made from orange rinds..Tastes great, though... <Snip> |
Ahh. the 'whippit' bottles. sans baloon.... I remember those. Thing is, even though the cartridges might look the same, what about the dimensions at the mouth / seal. Will the nitrous cartridge work in the co2 machine.? It might be definately worth a look into though. I agree though, the Nitrous should have a more neutral taste to it than the co2. Thanks for the info there. if I had a rigup that took those i might try it... or I might put coffee into my whipped cream bottle and shoot it out that way... ill have to think on this one. aaron |
The cartridges for the BB guns are 12 g compared to 8 g for 1 liter siphons. It hadn't occurred to me to try the nitrous in the coffee. For some reason I'm thinking decaf here. Cameron On 5/27/07, Aaron wrote: <Snip> -- ceforde |