Ever Tasted Your Diy Co2 Mix?

[showjyr]

Just wondering if any of you have ever tasted your co2 mix just before you change it out for a fresh one?

It doesn't only smell like alchohol it tastes like it too

 

[Neo8223]

Just wondering if any of you have ever tasted your co2 mix just before you change it out for a fresh one?

It doesn't only smell like alchohol it tastes like it too

I considered it, but i wernt too sure about it lol. Any good? My dad had a ntrafin cannister that he gave me, which he hadnt changed the mix in a good 5 months. THAT SMELT POTENT!

 

[Scrofula]

Hmm, maybe a few crushed apples to the mix and after a month I can enjoy a nice dry cider.

I just emptied and changed mine and it does smell like a good brew. Wouldn't think about drinking it though would just give you the

 

[mikster]

You would probably what to distill it first to remove the impurities but it is essentially alcohol i believe, i have no idea what strength is comes out at though, i imagine its quite potent.

 

[mindscape100]

Well from home brewing as far as I know the yeast cells die off at around 15% alchohol, so it shouldnt be any stronger than that. But it will probably taste pretty foul. Could always try adding a fruit juice to the mix prior to adding the yeast!!!! I dont think Id be the first to try that though

 

[SuperColey1]

You bunch of sad sad sad winos. You don't deserve to be entrusted with fish. I hope the RSPCA find out about you all.
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[Musho3210]

Ive drunk the distilled version and the actual mix, the distilled version has a much more powerful alcohal taste. But this is coming from a person who has only drunk a sip of beer in his life....

 

[showjyr]

You bunch of sad sad sad winos. You don't deserve to be entrusted with fish. I hope the RSPCA find out about you all.
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Hic. Wheres that Return button gone. Hic. Whys the room spinning

Hahaha.....i just tasted it out of curiosity cus it smelled like alcohol, but it looks like a few fellas on here might brand their own fruity plant growing cocktail

 

[Waterloo Kid]

There's no reason why you couldn't hook up a bottle of fermenting wine/beer etc to the diffuser to get your CO2 and a tipple! Might be a bit slow though.

Mmmmmm, fermenting yeasty-licious!

WK

 

[KhaosInc]

I guy I know with a fairly impressive planted tank does his DIY Co2 with apple juice and champain yeast...

very nice drink...

 

[Lurks]

There's no reason why you couldn't hook up a bottle of fermenting wine/beer etc to the diffuser to get your CO2 and a tipple! Might be a bit slow though.

Heh. On the contrary it would be quite fast. A beer brew at room temperature takes about 4-5 days perhaps and that's near on a couple of kilograms of sugars being fermented. Huge amounts of CO2, it'd be like hooked up to an air pump

Actually, I wouldn't mind know what else is in the commercial mixes which manage to slow down the reaction as much as it does. Then I could avoid fancy sachets and just bung in some hovis fast acting yeast, sugar and maybe something else for vital nutrients ... hell, a bit of flour? Seems to work well enough for bread. But if you did it'd be all over in a day or something I warrant.

 

[Themuleous]

Lurks - have to read the pinned thread on nutrafin canisters? There is a recipe in there for a DIY mix, as you says its just yeast and sugar, billion times cheaper than those crappy sachets nutrfin sell for a ridiculous price. The only issue is that the mix needs changing once a week, but if you can live with that, a DIY mix is the way forward and you get much better co2 production with DIY.

Sam