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October 8, 2010

An Exotically Sweet Flavour In Your Soda-water With Aromhuset’s Melon

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An exotically sweet flavour in your soda-water with Aromhuset’s Melon

The taste of Melon is sweet and and full-bodied, and makes an excellent addition to carbonated drinking water. Aromhuset’s Melon essence contains no sugar or artificial sweetener, yet nonetheless manages to produce an explosion of exotic sweetness. Every little bottle is enough to flavour 15 litres of carbonated water.

In case you like the taste of melon, but are trying to keep your intake of sugar and artificial sweeteners to a minimum, then Aromhuset’s Melon is certainly for you. Every bottle contains 30 ml of essence and measures no much more than 8 cm, yet this small amount is enough to flavour 15 litres of carbonated h2o employing the suggested dosage.

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Gert Strand AB is behind Aromhuset’s variety of around 20 flavours for carbonated water, and Melon is an exotic addition to this array. All the flavours might be mixed with every other creating a multitude of exciting taste combinations. The essence is quickly added either with the cap from the bottle, which measures 3 ml, or utilizing the specially provided pipette. There’s no need to stick to the suggested 2 ml per litre dosage; merely boost or decrease this to get the level of flavour you need.

Melon can be a taste that appeals to a lot of, being a quite sweet, exotic fruit, and Aromhuset’s Melon gives precisely the same taste as real melon. It’s exceptional mixed with Pineapple, Banana or Peach, which are also accessible in the Aromhuset range.

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The complete array of all-around 20 flavours has been developed especially for carbonated drinking water. Right now we would rather drink carbonated than still normal water, and flavoured rather than natural. The sales figures from nicely established factories show this trend clearly. Despite this the concept of flavoured mineral normal water is even now unusual, and in a lot of countries close to the world it can be difficult to discover flavoured sparkling drinking water.

Aromhuset’s essences contain no sugar or artificial sweeteners, and because of this are a welcome alternative for diabetics, families with children who want to maintain the sugar intake down, anybody following an Atkins-style diet plan who is missing the option of flavours, or basically anybody who would like a more healthy lifestyle. Because nearly everybody falls into one or more of these categories sales of Aromhuset’s essences are outstanding. Gert Strand AB, the firm behind Aromhuset, is currently seeking new importers for their innovative and widely enjoyed essences.

“There can be a reasonable selection of flavoured carbonated h2o within the shops, but the range is nonetheless a lot a lot more limited than it should be,” says Thomas Stroem, salesman. If you study swedish, it is possible to study a lot more about Aromhuset strawberry aroma at ALLT-OM-SPEL.COM and at aldingwebshop.com.

The flavour strength is generally extremely weak in the well-known brands, but in the event you choose to add flavour yourself with Aromhuset’s essences then it is possible to affect both the flavour mix as well as the strength, and select precisely how significantly flavour you would like, whenever you would like.

If, on top of this, you invest in your personal carbonation unit you’ll save carrying a lot of bottles home from the stores, not to mention saving on the shopping bill, since bottled drinking water is numerous times more costly than tap normal water. Tap normal water which is so clean and fresh that it’s a shame not to use it. Even from an environmental point of view it is the right time to carbonate your own water, considering that the transport of mineral water nowadays can be a large contributor to all of the greenhouse gases within the atmosphere.

December 18, 2009

Soda Club (aka Sodastream) Conflicts Arise in Germany

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In 2006, by claiming that Soda Club bottles were company property, not the customer’s (per standard customer contracts), Sodastream tried to stop a competing enterprise from refilling said bottles of carbon dioxide (CO2).

This effort failed in Germany, and now the same could happen in other countries.

Competition is needed in this market niche, both for environ­mental reasons (bottles should be refilled in the store, an operation that takes a mere 20 seconds); and for financial reasons (price could easily be halved). More info about refilling - and home refilling - of carbon dioxide bottles for home sodamakers here.

Still, one should consider that sparkling water made at home already costs but a fraction of store-purchased carbonated beverages, but things could be a lot better.

Here are the facts from bundeskartellamt in Germany:

http://www.bundeskartellamt.de/wEnglisch/News/Archiv/ArchivNews2006/2006_04_13.php

 

April 13, 2006

Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court confirms immediate enforceability in the Soda-Club case

Soda-Club GmbH, Wiesbaden (“Soda-Club“) may not use its dominant position abusively. Soda-Club had prevented competing suppliers from refilling Co² cartridges for water carbonating machines by claiming its ownership of the cartridges.

In February 2006 the Bundeskartellamt prohibited this conduct. Soda Club opposed the Bundeskartellamt’s immediately enforceable decision by applying to the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court for interim measures. In provisional proceedings the court has now confirmed the Bundeskartellamt’s decision in all material respects. Soda-Club is dominant in the market for refilling CO2 cartridges. Hindering competitors from refilling CO² cartridges represents an abuse of this dominant position. By this conduct Soda-Club prevents consumers from taking advantage of alternative refilling possibilities. Only the obligation to point out on labels on the company’s own cartridges that it is admissible to have them refilled by competitors was seen by the Higher Regional Court as a disproportionate measure.

Although Soda-Club can still appeal against the Higher Regional Court’s decision to the Federal Supreme Court, the Higher Regional Court’s decision implies that the numerous small and medium-sized bottling plants can now start to compete with Soda-Club and refill all cartridges circulating in the market.

Reasons To Choose Refillable Seltzer Water Bottle

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Carbonated water, also known as sparkling water, fizzy water, soda water, club soda, seltzer water, or pop water is plain water into which carbon dioxide gas has been dissolved, and is the major and defining component of most “soft drinks”. Carbonation is process which includes the dissolving of carbon dioxide gas into an aqueous medium. It results in the formation of carbonic acid (which has the chemical formula H2CO3).

In the past, soda water was produced in the home by “charging” a refillable seltzer bottle by filling it with water and then adding carbon dioxide. Club soda may be identical to plain carbonated water or it may contain a small amount of table salt, sodium citrate, sodium bicarbonate, potassium bicarbonate, potassium sulfate, or disodium phosphate, depending on the bottler. These additives are included to emulate the slightly salty taste of homemade soda water. In the UK Soda Water is nearly always made with Sodium Bicarbonate. The process can also occur naturally to produce carbonated mineral water, such as in Mihalkovo in the Bulgarian Rhodopes

The quality of carbonated beverages including soft drinks, seltzer and beer is affected by the amount of dissolved CO2 (the gas that causes carbonation) and the amount of carbonic acid in the drink. Carbon dioxide (CO2)has an infrared absorption wavelength of 4.27 micrometers and can be measured online using an infrared carbonation sensor.

In many consumer beverages such as soft drinks (well known examples include Coca-Cola, 7 Up, Fanta and Pepsi), carbonation is used to give “bite”. In contrast to the popular belief, the sparkling taste is result of dilute carbonic acid perceived as slight burning sensation, and is not caused by the presence of bubbles.  This can be shown by drinking a fizzy drink in a hyperbaric chamber at the same pressure as the beverage. This gives much the same taste, but the bubbles are completely absent.

And you’ll enjoy the fizziest seltzer on the planet. Unlike old fashioned soda siphons, you can make seltzer as fizzy as you like it with a Soda-Club home soda/seltzer maker. You can even make your own flavored seltzer with all-natural, unsweetened MyWater flavor essences.

You love seltzer … plus although you may pay price of sale, the price of seltzer still adds up. Perhaps you buy one-liter bottles of seltzer on sale at the store for 50 cents each — or as low as 33 cents each ($4 for a 12-bottle case). Even at these store sale prices, if your household drinks one case of 12 one-liter bottles per week, you’ll spend over $2,000 on seltzer over the next 10 years!

With Soda-Club, you will slash your seltzer costs to as low as 18 cents per liter — that’s like paying just $2 per case! — and you’ll enjoy fresh, fizzy seltzer at the push of a button! And if you prefer the sophisticated light carbonation of imported sparkling water, you’ll love the Penguin, which makes fresh sparkling water in elegant cut glass carafes.  A large assortment of calorie free flavors to flavor sparkling water to great taste is sold at http://allfreightfree.com.

Here are several more reasons to get started with Soda-Club:
• No More Schlepping: Reusable, one-liter carbonating bottles save you from lugging (and storing) all of those cases from the store.
• Stay Sparkling Longer: Special bottle caps having hermetic seals will help you in keeping your seltzer much fizzier for long rather than store-bought seltzer.
• Convenience: You will make seltzer in one-liter convenient bottles. Unlike those expensive, one and done soda siphon chargers, each one of our large, lightweight Alco2jet CO2 carbonators in our sleek home soda/seltzer makers contain enough C02 to carbonate up to 110 liters of fresh, fizzy seltzer. Empty carbonators are easily exchanged door-to-door, anywhere in the continental USA.
• Control Your Fizz: Whether you like a few light bubbles or serious, nose-tickling fizz, a Soda-Club home seltzer maker lets you make it the way you want it.
• Environmentally Friendly: Reusing your carbonating bottles will drastically reduce discarded and recyclable material in our environment. Also saves money on deposit fees!
• Better for You: Sodium free! Add a drop of one of Soda-Club’s all-natural, unsweetened MyWater flavor essences, or a fresh berry for a whisper of flavor. You will have a great-tasting, fresh beverage that is one hundred percent natural

July 10, 2009

Sodastream (Soda Club) fouled up in Germany

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In 2006, Sodastream (Soda Club) tried to stop a competing enterprise from refilling Soda Club bottles of carbon dioxide (CO2), by claiming that the bottles were their property and did not belong to the customer (per contracts that all customers had to agree to).

This didn’t work in Germany, and this could very well happen in many other countries.

Competition is needed in this market niche, both in the interest of the environ­ment (bottles should be refilled in the store, an operation that takes a mere 20 seconds); and for price, which could easily be halved. More info about refilling - and home refilling - of carbon dioxide bottles for home sodamakers here.

Consumers should consider that sparkling water made at home can already be had at a fraction of the cost of retail carbonated beverages; however, things could be a lot better.

Here are the facts from bundeskartellamt in Germany:

http://www.bundeskartellamt.de/wEnglisch/News/Archiv/ArchivNews2006/2006_04_13.php

 

April 13, 2006

Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court confirms immediate enforceability in the Soda-Club case

Soda-Club GmbH, Wiesbaden (“Soda-Club“) may not use its dominant position abusively. Soda-Club had prevented competing suppliers from refilling CO2 cartridges for water carbonating machines by claiming its ownership of the cartridges.

In February 2006 the Bundeskartellamt prohibited this conduct. Soda Club opposed the Bundeskartellamt’s immediately enforceable decision by applying to the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court for interim measures. In provisional proceedings the court has now confirmed the Bundeskartellamt’s decision in all material respects. Soda-Club is dominant in the market for refilling CO² cartridges. Hindering competitors from refilling CO² cartridges represents an abuse of this dominant position. By this conduct Soda-Club prevents consumers from taking advantage of alternative refilling possibilities. Only the obligation to point out on labels on the company’s own cartridges that it is admissible to have them refilled by competitors was seen by the Higher Regional Court as a disproportionate measure.

Although Soda-Club can still appeal against the Higher Regional Court’s decision to the Federal Supreme Court, the Higher Regional Court’s decision implies that the numerous small and medium-sized bottling plants can now start to compete with Soda-Club and refill all cartridges circulating in the market.

April 13, 2009

Fun With SodaStream Home Carbonation Systems

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SodaStream is the name of a line of carbonation makers; the company began in 1903.

When different concentrated syrups became available in the 1970s and 1980s, drink machines were created that could add concentrates to create carbonated drinks in popular flavors. After a merger with Soda-Club the company marketed its product as a way to make healthy drinks for kids.

SodaStream’s drink maker is a small device that forces carbon dioxide into water, making it have a taste like soda pop. The system includes: a) a machine; b) a canister of carbon dioxide; and c) reusable beverage bottles (suitable for pressurizing). The bottle, when filled with water, is screwed on to the machine, and with a push of the button ejects compressed CO2 from a canister into the bottle, making sparkling water (also called ). There are a number of flavors which can be used to create regular soft drinks by adding a minute amount to the bottle of carbonated water. When the canister is out of CO2, you return it to the market and purchase a carbon dioxide (CO2) refill.

With so many categories of concentrate, different and unique flavors of soft drinks can be made. In the years when the systems were most popular, many well-known brands were available for SodaStream in the concentrates – such as Fanta, and Sunkist.

MilkStream, is a variation of the SodaStream, and was invented for making milkshakes. By combining ice cream, milk and Crusha syrup in a glass, inserting the machine with an extended wand into the glass, a frothy, delicious milkshake is made.

The very first machines were marketed to the upper classes of London, including, notably, the royal household. There were flavors with odd names, including the famous sarsaparilla introduced in the 1920s. In 1955 the first machine for home carbonation was produced.

SodaStream’s super popularity in the UK during the 1970s and 1980s is fueling its current association with nostalgia for those periods of time. The advertising jingle in 1970s was, “Get busy with the fizzy.” The slogan was so popular that the company added it to its logo. It was finally dropped in 1996 after 17 years.

Although commercially successful, the soft drinks made by these machines were perceived by some to be an inferior imitation of their commercial counterparts. One of the differences noticed was that in addition to slightly different flavors of the produced drink, the SodaStream machine bubbles are larger and shorter-lived. Today this has changed, partly because of Aromhuset flavors for carbonated water, and Sodastream now is the leader in sparkling water.

Today, SodaStream is part of Soda-Club, and a number websites offer the opportunity to purchase products and/or order or reorder supplies as needed.

March 26, 2009

Information on Sodastream (Soda Club)

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In the year 2006, Sodastream (Soda Club) tried to deny a different enterprise to refill “their” bottles of carbonic acid, claiming that the bottles were their assets and it did not belong to the customer (through contracts which all customers had to agree to).
This didn’t work in Germany, and this could very well become the norm in most countries.This niche really does need competition, both for the sake of the environ­ment (bottles should be refilled in the store, an operation that takes a mere 20 seconds), and for price, which could easily be cut in half.  Still, one should consider that sparkling water made at home already costs but a fraction of store-purchased carbonated beverages, but things could be a lot better.
Here are the facts from authority in Germany:
(Johnny, Do not spinn below this line)

April 13, 2006
Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court confirms immediate enforceability in the Soda-Club case

Soda-Club GmbH, Wiesbaden (“Soda-Club“) may not use its dominant position abusively. Soda-Club had prevented competing suppliers from refilling Co² cartridges for water carbonating machines by claiming its ownership of the cartridges.

In February 2006 the Bundeskartellamt prohibited this conduct. Soda Club opposed the Bundeskartellamt’s immediately enforceable decision by applying to the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court for interim measures. In provisional proceedings the court has now confirmed the Bundeskartellamt’s decision in all material respects. Soda-Club is dominant in the market for refilling CO² cartridges. Hindering competitors from refilling CO² cartridges represents an abuse of this dominant position. By this conduct Soda-Club prevents consumers from taking advantage of alternative refilling possibilities. Only the obligation to point out on labels on the company’s own cartridges that it is admissible to have them refilled by competitors was seen by the Higher Regional Court as a disproportionate measure.

Although Soda-Club can still appeal against the Higher Regional Court’s decision to the Federal Supreme Court, the Higher Regional Court’s decision implies that the numerous small and medium-sized bottling plants can now start to compete with Soda-Club and refill all cartridges circulating in the market.

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