A method of making a beverage in a beverage making machine, the method increasing the retained volume of a gas in the beverage after dispense into a vessel, by mixing a beverage diluent liquid with at least one of a beverage ingredient to form an enhanced beverage diluent liquid, and then dissolving the gas into the enhanced beverage diluent liquid versus dissolving the gas into the beverage diluent liquid only. The method includes mixing on inlet into a dissolver the beverage diluent liquid and a beverage ingredient to form an enhanced beverage diluent liquid, the beverage ingredient being sweetener or non-nutritive sweetener, or a combination thereof, dissolving the gas into the enhanced beverage diluent liquid, mixing the enhanced beverage diluent liquid with additional beverage ingredients, and dispensing the beverage from the beverage making machine into a vessel.
