Sudomate

Sudo mate, is a Club-Mate like drink sudo-manufactured for sudo-profit.

High-Level Jobs Left To Be Done as of April 10 2013

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Make mate
Determine Carbonation Process [ Romy bringing Sodastream for first meeting- we will want to move to a non proprietary carbonation process eventually ]
Bottle The mate
Sell the mate - Maximilianklein (talk)

Equipment Still Needed

Storage Corney Kegs
C02 Regulator
Mate
Lots of bottles

Budget

Initial Funding: up to $300 ($300 left) Target Sales: $200 - $300

Business Plan

Make it.
- Buy sufficient raw mate
  - Mate if we're aiming for ethical excellence might be Guayaki in Sebastopol [6]
  - for 50L ~ 100 bottles
    - Assuming 500ml bottles
    - We could also use 333ml bottles
- Brew it (Morten: "Sounds fun. I'm in")
  - Will we need a vat?
    - (Morten: If necessary use my 15L pots and make several batches.)
    - Do we have a vat?
    - Hol has a keg.
    - Can a metal worker at sudo make us a vat
- Spice it if necessary
  - Following this makerzine guide[4] maybe
  - Or allow adventurous sudoer to blaze trail
    - Noise bridge already made something called "Sudo Pop", which is up our alley. [1]
- Carbonate it
  - Bobby, David Wild's roommate does this
    - Ask him nicely
    - Pay him
  - Buy a soda-stream
    - (Morten: "I think this would be very expensive. Might be possible to use a real "carbonater" thing, I know Tom's dad has one.")
      - Eric the metal Worker has one I just found out Maximilianklein (talk) 22:02, 7 April 2013 (PDT)
      - Patrick has a sudostream, and suggests these tutorials [5]
- Transport it too bottler
Bottle It. (Morten can totally be responsible for this)
- Use as many recycled bottles as possible
  - Put call out for more bottles
    - Pay a homeless person worst comes to worse
- Transfer liquid, using this technique thansk to Bobby T [2]
- Use the sudo capping machine
  - I believe its in the closet
- Labelling
  - Rock paper scissors can do this
- Transport it to storage
Store it
- We might be able to use the sudo closet
  - Does it require refrigerated storage?
  - Do we have a refrigerator
    - Find one or many on CL Free
Sell it.
- Target price $2-3/bottle depending on investment figures
- Always at sudo, but also at specialized events
- At Oakland Nights live
- At an events night fundraiser
  - Sober
    - Games tournament
    - Debate
    - Hackathon
  - Mix it with alcohol
    - At a sudorave.
    - One of the planned Movie Nights
- At art murmur.
- online at http://www.goodeggs.com/sfbay
- Update: Noisebridgde have pledged to buy 48 bottles per week if we get this going.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club-Mate [2] http://club-mate.us/ [3] https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Sudomate [4] http://blog.makezine.com/2010/08/12/how-to-homebrew-club-mate/ [5] http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2012-06/how-make-your-own-home-carbonation-system http://gizmodo.com/5893653/sodamod-save-money-on-sodastream-refills-with-a-hacked-paintball-canister http://www.fizzgiz.com/competitors_and_diy_options.htm [6] http://guayaki.com/about/137/Guayak%26iacute%3B-Certifications.html