Abstract: There is provided a single serve beverage capsule. The capsule includes a capsule housing, an inlet, a mixing chamber disposed in the capsule housing in fluid communication with the inlet, an outlet reservoir disposed in the capsule housing in fluid communication with the mixing chamber, an outlet disposed in the fluid communication with the outlet reservoir, and beverage media disposed within the mixing chamber. The beverage media is substantially dissolvable in an aqueous based liquid. The inlet, the mixing chamber, outlet reservoir, and the outlet sequentially defines an unfiltered fluid path with respect to the dissolvable beverage media after having been immersed in an ambient temperature fluid. In another embodiment the mixing chamber is sized and configured to create wave-like mixing of a single serve amount of liquid. A beverage dispensing system is also provided that includes the capsule and a beverage dispenser.

Abstract: There is provided a single serve beverage dispensing system that includes a single serve beverage capsule and a dispenser. The capsule includes a housing, an inlet, a mixing chamber, and an outlet. The beverage media is disposed within the mixing chamber. The dispenser includes a water reservoir sized and configured to retain reservoir water, an ionizer sized and configured produce alkaline water and acidic water from the reservoir water from the water reservoir, a pump for pumping reservoir water from the water reservoir to the ionizer, an alkaline water reservoir in fluid communication with the ionizer sized and configured to retain alkaline water, a mixing fixture sized and configured to receive the capsule, and a valve sized and configured to release a single serve amount of alkaline water from the alkaline water reservoir to the mixing fixture and through the capsule. A method of dispensing is also provided.