Make your own soda at home with Soda-Club’s products. Soda-Club currently sells four unique soda machine makers. Each machine operates in the same way. They are not powered by electricity at all. No annoying plugs, or batteries to get in the way. All of the Soda-Club products use a 1 Liter bottle that can be washed and reused indefinitely resulting in the reduction of waste and recycling. The soda mix is highly concentrated, reducing packaging and shipping issues.
Aside from the environmental benefits, there are monetary benefits as well. Soda is expensive and is not getting cheaper. Soda-Club’s reasonable prices and value is hard to beat. The kit contains enough CO2 to fill 110 bottles and the amount of soda surpasses that number. Soda-Club also provides instructions on how to return the empty CO2 containers for refills.
In terms of shipping costs, think globally. You will save the world because of the reduction of gas pollution and carbon emissions by purchasing your long lasting soda kit.
Now with some of the green issues out of the way, how does it taste and is it actually good for me? Well, the Root Beer is the first one I tried and it tasted exactly like Barq’s, with significantly less calories, carbs, sugar and caffeine. Soda-Club has 35 calories while the two leading brand Root Beers contain more than 3 times that amount. This is true for all of Soda-Club’s flavors.
During Thanksgiving, six of my family members tried the root beer. Their reactions were identical. They said it tasted like the “real” thing and was great. My family was impressed when they discovered it was home made. Little did they know…
If regular soda is not your thing you are in luck! Soda-Club has seltzer flavors, diet sodas, fruit drinks and energy drinks too. There is truly a beverage for everyone.
Please check back soon for more reviews regarding Soda-Club. It only takes 30 seconds to make a refreshing drink, so pour one today!
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Do NOT use SodaClub USA. They have the worst customer service ever. Getting refills is a nightmare. They charge you for orders that never come, they deliver things at 11 pm without warning, someone has to be home for the order, it is completely a ripoff and insane.
I think that really just depends on the location where you live. The courier service seems to be different for each area.
If you’d like another perspective, I just posted a review on Soda-Club on my site – http://1GreenProduct.com.
My conclusion is that if you drink lots of soda (which I don’t), the Soda-Club probably makes sense from both a financial and ecological perspective.
- Aaron Dalton, 1GreenProduct.com
Refusal to respond to warranty claim: I have a sodaclub penguin which I was very happy with for six months until it gradually stopped working. I have sent repeated emails and calls to the sodaclub customer service to find out where to send the machine for repairs and have gotten no response whatsoever. I can only assume at this point that they do not intend to honor the three year warranty and am exploring other options. Note that unless the machine works for two years it is not cost effective to use or purchase.
We’ve had a SodaClub for 4 months and we love it. We don’t drink soda at all, but we carbonate our water and no longer buy Arrowhead sparkling water. My only comment is that the bottles are hard to clean and often smell of mildew. You can’t run then through the dishwasher nor use hot water for hand washing. We have a difficult time keeping them as clean as we’d like.
Solutions to refilling the Soda-Club or SodaStream CO2 Cannisters can be found at http://www.sodaclubrefill.com.
Stop paying ridiculous amounts for refills by refilling your own. We have the solution!
hey cheers for that… very informative – i’ve added your blog to my netvibes account – thanks
DO NOT USE SODACLUBREFILL.COM. ITS A RIP-OFF. THINK ABOUT IT. THEY WILL NOT TALK TO YOU WHEN THEIR EQUIPMENT DOESN’T WORK AND THERE IS NO PHONE NUMBER TO CALL. FORWARNED IS FOREARMED!!
Ditto. BEWARE. I recently purchased an “adapter” from sodaclubrefill.com that told me I would be able to adapt my Soda Club CO2 tanks to refill with any standard CO2 filling station. After waiting months (production was far behind schedule) I received my adapter only to find out that this was only HALF of what I needed to do the refill and that I would additionally have to purchase another $60 item (I already spent $50) to actually refill the bottles. Now they have added a warning text to their website to tell people about this (after several complaints no doubt) but this warning did NOT exist when I ordered in May and they actually admit this!!
When I sent an email stating that I felt I was mislead about the product, they immediately responded that they “did not like my tone” and I could “pursue whatever action I wanted” but they did not care.
WOW.
We have a SodaClub dispenser. We love it, but were feeling ripped off and hassled when it came to exchanging, recharging, and paying for the “carbonators”.
In 5 minutes of hook up, SodaClubRefill’s Feedom One has rocked our seltzer world. I don’t care about their customer service. What doesn’t work??? It is just a couple of connections, a hose, and a valve. They have a simple and effective solution. We have endless Co2 at $35/20lbs of gas!!!!!!
SCR beats the “MAN”…
I have a SodaStream it is the same as a SodaClub and I will say too DO NOT USE Sodaclubrefill.com. They a nightmare to try to talk to. No phone number, They will not answer emails on the website when they do by way of Ebay. They cannot answer questions even that you are talking about SODA they keep telling you about Paintball things.
Talking down to you, telling you you cannot read. Their website is a nightmare to try to read and you still have to guess on what you want and need. If you guess wrong they will not return your money. Ask them a question 100 times and they still will not give you the answer like how to find it and the drop down bar is NOT there.
You have to guess at what you need and pay $100 if you get it wrong that will be money you are out of. With a hoes you cannot use.
When they do email you they do NOT answer the questions at hand in a clear manner and start to get hateful with you.
Souns like the anonymous poster from January 2oth is an unhappy illiterate idiot. I’ve bought twice from their website and am quite happy. Maybe the idiot didn’t sound literate no differently than the rants here.
I went to the sodaclubrefill.com website and found it very informative and easy to use. They seemed to have everything well organized so I don’t see the user’s problem with it. Sounds more like a customer from hell if you ask me.
I have to echo the negative sentiments about sodaclubrefill.com.
The guy was very friendly and helpful until after I made my purchase. The system works fine, but the modified valve on the tank he sold us almost killed my husband. I made a post on the forums simply saying that we were having trouble getting the tank to take any carbonation and were there any hints or tricks, because the unmodified tanks were working fine. He deleted that post and sent me repeated emails asking for all kinds of pictures and descriptions of what was happening. He knew I am disabled and wouldn’t be able to give him everything he wanted. His tone was downright rude.
I spent a lot of money on his products and it was just one repaired valve that didn’t work, why would I be trying to rip him off about one valve? Good customer service would have at least been nice about the problem, and he should have either refunded my money for the repaired valve or sent me a new valve. I just dropped it because it’s not worth dealing with a jerk. I can’t access his website, but I see he is still selling on e-bay.
If the stuff works, it’s great, but if it doesn’t, look out because it can be dangerous and he’s not a very nice person unless he thinks he’s going to get your money.
The really stupid thing is that I was going to buy another system for my motorhome, but after the experience I had with him I’ll be looking for another option.