Is there a national shortage of Sparkling Water

Twat-Badger

So I'm well aware that admitting this in public risks us being branded a heretic and us being driven from our homes but Mrs. Twat-Badger and I are partial to a drink of sparkling water. Normally we'd stock up on a few bales of the stuff while doing the 'big shop' but in recent weeks it seems that it's become impossible to get. Have tried numerous Lidl's and Tesco's within a 20 mile radius of us and no joy.

Anyone with any inside information shed any light on this? Has the heat driven normal people to turn to sparkling water for relief? Are there so few of us who enjoy this perversion that shops have just stopped stocking it? Should I talk to joe about this?

Also if anyone has any idea where a few bales of water can still be got, let me know please before I resort to soda streaming my tap water.

MonkeyTennis

Bought a sodastream yesterday.

BrianBoru00

Lmgtfy

Actually , no - do it yourself

judeboy101

CO2 shortage in Europe.

theteal

International shortage of CO2

seamus

Apparently so.

Word on the street is that there are only one or two companies who provide part of the carbonation process for sparkling water, and they all take their holidays at the same time, leaving bottlers without any carbonation.

This is usually not a problem, except that demand for all kinds of bottled water is through the roof this year.

facehugger99

MonkeyTennis wrote: »

Bought a sodastream yesterday.

Me too.:D

There's no sparkling in our local Dunnes or Tesco for a couple of weeks now.

Lidl do have some.

I was thinking of changing to a soda stream anyway - didn't sit right with me all the plastic bottles in our recycling bin - the soda stream has to be more environmentally friendly.

Charles Babbage

I've no fizz in my life.

jester77

CO2 shortage, beer has to get priority

theteal

I'm surprised that there have been more threads about sparkling water than the potential beer shortage. For shame. . . .




also sparkling water is just weird

Dial Hard

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057893560

VinLieger

Yup massive CO2 shortages, expect to start seeing less prepackaged food soon too as its required for that too, will be hitting softdrinks and beer too

The Backwards Man

jester77 wrote: »

CO2 shortage, beer has to get priority

I think it's actually pork and chicken getting the priority, beer is suffering too.

Ciaran_B

There is. Check the Aldi and Lidl threads over in Food to see which branches have it in stock.

Conall Cernach

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I think it's actually pork and chicken getting the priority, beer is suffering too.

I always thought beer made its own fizz as part of fermentation and didn't need CO2 for that. Well, you learn something new everyday.

jester77

Conall Cernach wrote: »

I always thought beer made its own fizz as part of fermentation and didn't need CO2 for that. Well, you learn something new everyday.

Certain beers, UK beers are the worst affected because of how they use it. Beer from most other EU countries go the natural route.

facehugger99

facehugger99 wrote: »

Me too.:D

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OMG a #metoo for sodastream :P

I opened a Devil's Bit cider bottle recently - very low CO2 in there compared to normal

gandalf

Explained here.

BattleCorp

Looks like I'll invest in the bubble making business.

Raw ingredients - air.