What's a technical term for the production of soda?
October 28, 2011 6:56 AM   Subscribe

Is there a technical term for making soda/pop?

Not much to expand on. It can be any technical term relating to the production of soda/pop/coke. 1luv
posted by apip to Food & Drink (14 answers total)
 
Carbonation?
posted by mary8nne at 6:57 AM on October 28, 2011


Response by poster: That's good, but are there any others?
posted by apip at 6:57 AM on October 28, 2011


This might be helpful.
posted by EndsOfInvention at 6:59 AM on October 28, 2011


Response by poster: Unless there's more technical terms for soda production in it -- not really, but thanks.
posted by apip at 7:00 AM on October 28, 2011


Best answer: I have made root beer at home before, and always referred to it as the brewing of rootbeer.

I have also conducted an environmental assessment on a soda factory for work. I don't remember any weird, arcane, soda-specific terms -- just general terms I see in other factories, like "mixing", "bottling", "carbonation," etc.

In the US, at least, soda manufacturing plants have historically been referred to as "bottling plants".
posted by pie ninja at 7:05 AM on October 28, 2011


Well, yes, it mentions lots of technical terms related to producing soft drinks: coagulation, filtration, chlorination, sterilization, pasteurization....
posted by EndsOfInvention at 7:06 AM on October 28, 2011


apip, did you even look at it? EndsOfInvention's link has many technical terms in it. I think carbonation might be your best bet, though.
posted by phunniemee at 7:06 AM on October 28, 2011


Response by poster: Yeah, I look at it, bro.

Shout out to PIE NINJA for being a boss.
posted by apip at 7:08 AM on October 28, 2011 [1 favorite]


Response by poster: I'm also ESL. Don't judge me, or do.
posted by apip at 7:09 AM on October 28, 2011


My husband makes soda at home, root beer mostly, and we call it brewing too. We also just call it soda making.
posted by TooFewShoes at 7:58 AM on October 28, 2011


I believe the technical term is jerk.
posted by Lorin at 10:06 AM on October 28, 2011


If you're making a DIY soda from scratch (more or less) you'd call it brewing (or making or mixing depending on whether you're brewing a natural ginger beer with in-the-bottle yeast carbonation versus pouring some Flav-R syrup into a bottle of water and zapping it with your tabletop carbonator.

Carbonated soft drinks, on the other hand, are mass-produced factory processed "food", as such if you are designing the recipe it is called "formulation" and if you are producing the beverage for sale it is called "manufacturing".
posted by nanojath at 10:43 AM on October 28, 2011


I always thought one brewed root beer because of the yeast that is/might be present.
I think the beers (root beer, ginger beer, spruce beer) are the only sodas that are brewed.

I don't think one brews pepsi.

Although I could be wrong.

Why exactly do you want to know? Are you looking for books/recipes and need the right search term? Are you writing a paper? Or are you just curious?

If it's books you want, I think you can just enter "soda" in the search box and you will find a few books with recipes...
posted by bitteroldman at 10:55 AM on October 28, 2011


In the US, at least, soda manufacturing plants have historically been referred to as "bottling plants".

For Coca Cola at least that's because the syrup is made somewhere else. Then it's sent to the different bottlers (sold to them in a weird anti-monopoly thing) where it is watered down, carbonated and bottled. I'm not sure what happens in the watering down stage, if more things are added besides the syrup, but the syrup is what makes each drink and that's manufactured at a syrup manufacturing plant. So: formulation - manufacturing - bottling.

And yeah, coke and whatever isn't brewed. Ginger beer ate are made by live yeast, other soft drinks are just manufactured from set ingredients.
posted by shelleycat at 11:08 AM on October 28, 2011


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