#SMOKING CLUB CONTRAPTION MAKER FULL#

(Full disclosure, Ricky the Meadmaker was mere days from retrofitting our Jockey Box to dispense seltzer along with mead, but CEO Kelly put the kibosh on that.) If you’re a seltzer drinker, you seriously should join their club. Then, one glorious day, we discovered Soda Sense with their home delivery CO2 system. Either way, we were high and dry for a while there. While it’s always possible that there were millions of avid Club Soda drinkers out there who had to start carefully mixing sodium bicarbonate with other salts, then carbonating it at home to get their Jones, it’s more likely that supply chains were stretched and more people were making cocktails at home. All of the local stores ran out of 60L cylinders, and try as we might, we couldn’t figure out a way to fill them off of our 2250 pound CO2 system at the meadery. It seems that with the uptick in drinking during the early days of the pandemic, CO2 was in short supply. Going out to the store just to get CO2 was not only impractical, it was now impossible. It was really handy, but they didn’t have canister replacements at any of the normal places we shopped, so we were regularly making special runs just to get cylinders.Ĭue the pandemic. Beer, wine, cider, sake, cocktails, you name it! Originally, we actually got a modern seltzer maker when our 1920s soda siphon finally gave up the ghost. During the height of the pandemic it was so nice to A) not have to go to the store for CO2 refills, and B) have something to drink while working at home (something that wasn’t alcohol, of course).Īlthough we love the mead we brew, we’re all catholic (not Catholic, though some of us are that, too) in our drinking. We’ve been getting Soda Sense CO2 cylinders for years. So, without burying the lede any deeper, what is this contraption you ask? It is the Soda Sensei from the folks at.

#SMOKING CLUB CONTRAPTION MAKER FULL#

We happily buy from them and pay full price! It might even go beyond “tool.” It’s probably officially a “contraption.”īefore we dive in and tell you why you absolutely need one of these, we should definitely say that we’re not affiliated in any way with Soda Sense. We have discovered the most amazing tool that every homebrewer needs.

Smoking club contraption maker