Cola Open source...!!!!!
OpenCola (drink)
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OpenCola
Type Cola
Introduced 2001
Related products Free Beer
OpenCola is a brand of cola unique in that the instructions for making it are freely available and
modifiable.
Anybody can make the drink, and anyone can modify and improve on the recipe as long as they, too,
license their recipe under the GNU General Public License. Since recipes are, by themselves, not
copyrightable, the legal basis for this is untested.[1]
The original version 1.0 was released on 27 January 2001. Current Version is 1.1.3. Although originally intended as a promotional tool to explain free and open source software, the drink took on a life of its own and 150,000 cans were sold. The Toronto-based company Opencola founded by Grad Conn, Cory Doctorow, and John Henson became better known for the drink than the software it was supposed to promote. Laird Brown, the company's senior strategist, attributes its success to a widespread mistrust of big corporations and the "proprietary nature of almost everything."
Flavoring formula
The flavoring formula for OpenCola is:[2][3]
10.0 g food-grade gum arabic
3.50 mL orange oil
3.00 mL water
2.75 mL lime oil
1.25 mL cassia oil
1.00 mL lemon oil
1.00 mL nutmeg oil
0.25 mL coriander oil
0.25 mL neroli oil
0.25 mL lavender oil
[edit]Concentrate formula
Ingredients of OpenCola
2.36 kg plain granulated white table sugar
2.28 L water
30.0 mL caramel color
17.5 mL (3.50 tsp.) 75% phosphoric acid or citric acid
10.0 mL (2.00 tsp.) flavoring formula
2.50 mL (0.50 tsp.) caffeine (optional)
Dilution
After mixing up the concentrate to the prescribed recipe (including all recommended safety precautions - see links ),
the syrup is diluted 5:1 with ("preferablysodium-free") soda water to make the finished drink; at this dilution,
the above combination of ingredients will yield approximately 24 litres of OpenCola.
The full recipe also includes instructions for home-made soda water produced from basic ingredients such as
yeast and sugar in order to make the entire process open source, otherwise there would be a need to use c
ommercially-produced bottled or canned soda, or consumer carbonation machines (such as Soda Stream) with
commercially manufactured carbon dioxide canisters.[2][3]
[edit]See also
Free Beer, open source beer, formerly known as Our Beer (Danish: Vores øl)
Open Source Beer Project, an open source beer
Coca-Cola formula
[edit]References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: OpenCola
OpenCola soft drink
Cube Cola Bristol UK
How to Make OpenCola - WikiHow
The recipe from Wiki-How, condensed into a single, easily-printable page
OpenSoda, a continuation of the OpenCola work for recipe and methodology
The flavoring formula for OpenCola is:[2][3]
10.0 g food-grade gum arabic
3.50 mL orange oil
3.00 mL water
2.75 mL lime oil
1.25 mL cassia oil
1.00 mL lemon oil
1.00 mL nutmeg oil
0.25 mL coriander oil
0.25 mL neroli oil
0.25 mL lavender oil
[edit]Concentrate formula
Ingredients of OpenCola
2.36 kg plain granulated white table sugar
2.28 L water
30.0 mL caramel color
17.5 mL (3.50 tsp.) 75% phosphoric acid or citric acid
10.0 mL (2.00 tsp.) flavoring formula
2.50 mL (0.50 tsp.) caffeine (optional)
Dilution
After mixing up the concentrate to the prescribed recipe (including all recommended safety precautions - see links ),
the syrup is diluted 5:1 with ("preferablysodium-free") soda water to make the finished drink; at this dilution,
the above combination of ingredients will yield approximately 24 litres of OpenCola.
The full recipe also includes instructions for home-made soda water produced from basic ingredients such as
yeast and sugar in order to make the entire process open source, otherwise there would be a need to use c
ommercially-produced bottled or canned soda, or consumer carbonation machines (such as Soda Stream) with
commercially manufactured carbon dioxide canisters.[2][3]
[edit]See also
Free Beer, open source beer, formerly known as Our Beer (Danish: Vores øl)
Open Source Beer Project, an open source beer
Coca-Cola formula
[edit]References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: OpenColaOpenCola soft drink
Cube Cola Bristol UK
How to Make OpenCola - WikiHow
The recipe from Wiki-How, condensed into a single, easily-printable page
OpenSoda, a continuation of the OpenCola work for recipe and methodology
