I recently got one of those at-home drink carbonators (think Sodastream), and in making myself some legally distinct cola, I noticed that sparkling water doesn’t tend to get a ‘head’, but it will after I’ve added the flavoring. (I hope ‘head’ is the right term, like it is with beer.)
What causes this? Is it that adding the flavor gives more ‘surface’ for more fizz to be made, hence more bubbles, or the consistency of soda vs sparkling water making it easy to bubble, or something else?
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It’s the sugar. If you add a teaspoon of sugar to sparkling water it will go *whoof* and you’ll suddenly have a fizzy head.
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