Homemade fruit flavors are pretty easy with sodastream , but leave me craving coke and dr. pepper. I tackled coke in other topics, but has anyone found a simple way to mimic Dr Pepper? I don't like it's commercial clones and I didn't like the look of some complex clone recipes, one of which I have is thought to be an actual early prototype from the inventor.
I was thinking of mixing canned frozen concentrate of berry punch with prune juice and agave syrup as a start. I hope the prune juice might be concentrated since it is reconstituted dry plum, but probably will have a weak contribution. Yes, I know the company has stated there is no prune in it, but the essence of taste to me is kind of oxidized plum/raspberry/caffeine.
Commercial Dr Pepper seems changeable to me... not always good. The added-cherry version was really weak. The diet version is almost, but not quite, good enough to prevent me from projectile vomiting as I do with any fake sugar taste. I just had some Dr pepper from bottles and it tasted much better than cans which seem to impart an aluminum taste like there was no inner coating. It seemed better when I stopped by their bottling museum in Waco, and the nearby LBJ ranch which sold it in cute 20 sided polygonal cans.
Maybe I should just source the official syrup and experiment with higher concentrations or carb levels. The bottles I got started off hugely over carbed... the first opening sprayed all over my livingroom like a daisy cutter bomb before I even got the the (new, strange, brittle) top entirely off. I've never seen that in my life, but maybe they supercharged it because it leaks gas... the end of that 6 pack was weakly charged.
I was thinking of mixing canned frozen concentrate of berry punch with prune juice and agave syrup as a start. I hope the prune juice might be concentrated since it is reconstituted dry plum, but probably will have a weak contribution. Yes, I know the company has stated there is no prune in it, but the essence of taste to me is kind of oxidized plum/raspberry/caffeine.
Commercial Dr Pepper seems changeable to me... not always good. The added-cherry version was really weak. The diet version is almost, but not quite, good enough to prevent me from projectile vomiting as I do with any fake sugar taste. I just had some Dr pepper from bottles and it tasted much better than cans which seem to impart an aluminum taste like there was no inner coating. It seemed better when I stopped by their bottling museum in Waco, and the nearby LBJ ranch which sold it in cute 20 sided polygonal cans.
Maybe I should just source the official syrup and experiment with higher concentrations or carb levels. The bottles I got started off hugely over carbed... the first opening sprayed all over my livingroom like a daisy cutter bomb before I even got the the (new, strange, brittle) top entirely off. I've never seen that in my life, but maybe they supercharged it because it leaks gas... the end of that 6 pack was weakly charged.