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I found that the Coke-alike syrup could taste a lot like Coke, but you had to add a little less than half the amount of syrup they recommend.

I eventually dropped it, though, because the CO2 canisters were too expensive and didn't want the hassle of modding it to use a rechargeable CO2 system (and the subsequent years of being tied to it to get back to a neutral return-on-investment versus just buying Coke).

Your local water supply may not taste the same as the factory water

I was using filtered water.

I was just in florida and was surprised at how bad even the bottled water tasted.

You have to check where it was bottled. No sense in refusing to drink the tap water when the bottles youre buying come from the same municipal source.

Yep, we ended up buying water bottled from the Himalayan springs, untouched by modern society. Just kidding, New Jersey.

You do not have to use any of the syrups. Far better off to just add bit of juice for taste.