SodaStream Energy Syrup, 14.8 Fluid Ounce

They ruined a good product due to their greed. I've been a loyal SodaStream customer for several years. Over the years there were slight changes to the diet cola and other flavors and they've always been improvements. Now, SodaStream reformulated the syrup to boost their profits at the expense of their customers. Here's What's New: 1. The flavor has changed and not for the better. It has a strange flavor that I can't quite describe. Granted, I've never expected SodaStream's diet flavors to be as good as the major soda players, but come on, this is awful. It tastes like something you'd get at a dollar store. I always appreciate SodaStream not using aspartame as a sweetener and fortunately they still don't. However, now Diet Pepsi is aspartame free, so there's no advantage there anymore. 2. You now need a significant greater amount of syrup to carbonate a one liter volume of water. It's incredibly insulting to loyal SodaStream users to charge them the same or greater price for a smaller bottle of syrup that makes so much less soda. There's no reason to do this except to drive profits. You still have to use a capful of syrup to make a liter of soda and by looking at the picture of the bottle you'd think it wouldn't be a big deal until you remove the cap and see how far it extends into the bottle. It's a huge cap to fill. 3. Once you open the syrup, you have to now refrigerate the rest of the bottle. In this age of sophisticated food and beverage science, do they expect us to believe they couldn't create a new syrup that doesn't have to be refrigerated and doesn't require twice the volume? 4. The cap. It's poorly designed and lends itself to dripping. I used to really love my SodaStream maker and syrup and would recommend it to people all of the time. Now it's quite the opposite and I'll share these details with everyone who asks or is contemplating purchasing a new machine. If SodaStream brings back the old formulations I'll be a happy customer. Until that time, they're going to lose me and many others as customers.