This is the brand of carbonation systems for home use. They were invented in the early 1900s to add carbon dioxide (CO2) to drinking water. In those days they were called “apparatus for aerating liquids”. The more recent versions allow for incorporating flavored concentrates and before you realize it – you’ve got homemade carbonated, flavor drink or soda pop.

The initial machines made were rather large and were sold for the houses with more people from the upper classes of London, like the royal household. There initially were flavors with unusual names, one being the well-known sarsaparilla introduced while in the 1920s. The commercial carbonation machines were also introduced from the 1920s and were very popular. The first smaller machines for home carbonation was manufactured in 1955.

Because of so many types of concentrate, different and exclusive flavors of soft drinks can be made. In the times when the systems were most popular, many well-known brands were available for SodaStream in the concentrate such as Fants, and Sunkist.

In the early 1990s, the business merged with Soda-Club and has since relaunched with a marketing plan targeted more in the direction of overall health or healthiers drink for children or families.

Here and now there are several competing brands of soda concentrate for SodaStream. Aromhuset is the Premium mark and their Zero (sugar free) series taste like they as sugar sweetened. Take a look on their Zero Indian Tonic on amazon United Kingdom.

The SodaStream drink maker comes with a canister with CO2 which is pushed into water which makes the water fizzy. The complete product features a machine, co2 canister, and many reusable drink bottles specially made for pressurizing. After filling a bottle with water, you screw it to the machine, push a button, and create sparkling water. Carbonated sparkling water is also known as seltzer water. There are different flavors of concentrated syrups which allows the consumer to generate regular or diet soda pop (or soft drinks). When the canister is empty, you give it back and purchase a new canister of CO2.

The buzz on the SodaStream throughout the 70s and 80s in the UK and presently are connected with nostalgia for all those periods of time. The advertising make tonic water jingle in 1970 was “get busy with the fizzy” and was so very well liked, that the slogan was included with their logo. It was finally dropped in 1996 after 17 years.

MilkStream is a machine made through the very same company to make milkshakes. You simply add milk, soft ice cream and syrup in a tall glass, insert in the machine and a wand extends in the tall glass to whip up a foaming, delicious milkshake.

Today, SodaStream is part of Soda-Club and there are several websites where they can be purchased and all sorts of the supplies could be ordered and reordered when needed.