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Thank you! Music has always been my biggest struggle. In my head I image some studio ghibli-esk music but never find it. And copyright strikes hit you SO fast for using music. Even if you think it’s in the public domain. And licensing is a pain too, because the license is valid only as long as you continue to keep paying for it monthly. I agree with you and it’s definitely the area I feel the videos are the weakest. I’m just going to have to spend a few days and try and work something better out. I need to befriend a pianist lol.

Exactly like coke. It’s crazy that such a small diluted amount of oil can carry so much flavor but it does. Unfortunately now I have a ton of coke flavoring I don’t know what to do with. Sometimes I’ll add 2 or 3 drops to soda water to make a flavored soda water. Thank you! Glad you liked it.

I thought that too before I started making homemade soda syrups but it’s amazingly full flavor. I’ve read a bunch of old soda books from the 1800s and everyone had their own methods and style. There are many similarities but also many differences. The method I’ve settled on and prefer is the one John Pemberton used of making 5% flavoring solutions and adding 1.5 ml per kg of syrup. That has resulted in the most consistently and pleasant tasting sodas to me. I believe it’s based on some pharmaceuticals practices during the 1800s but it makes great sodas. But to and your question this has the same level of flavor as a soda you would get from a bottle, but fresher.

Thats awesome! I just need to get a large co2 tank to make my own soda water. I go through enough of it now and my go-to drink at night is a highball. I got the stuff to make Mountain Dew and plan on making a video of that next. So it depends on where you live and the liquor laws for each state. some states don't allow 95% ABV alcohol to be sold at all. I found this link for states where Everclear is legal. culinarysolvent.com/blogs/ethanol101/where-is-everclear-illegal I'm surprised to see Nevada on this list because I live in Nevada and can get it here. seems there are also some loopholes to selling it for non-beverage purposes, but sounds like you really put the effort in already with no luck. See if there is a way to get in your state for non beverage purposes? yeah unfortunately 40% vodka is no able to dissolve anywhere near the same amount of oil as 95%. 95% ABV can dissolve around 5% oil but 40% ABV can only hold around 0.5% oil and 75% ABV can hold around 3% oil. For the ratios to work it needs to be 95% and if you can only get 75% then increase the flavoring by 1.5x. 40% ABV would require like 2 tsp. The little gold measuring cup is called a jigger. they make a few different types but the main ones are american, japanese and bell. the one i use is a bell, japanese style ones are really good, and the american style jiggers stink. the purpose of them is to measure out oz. mine is a 1 and 2 oz but 1.5 and 0.5 is popular one. also 1.5 and 2 is common. cocktails are measured out in oz so its the main measuring tool for mixing cocktails. like i said i will make a mountain dew video soon but mountain dew is sprite flavor with caffeine and frozen concentrated orange juice. As far as the oils go here is a copy pasted response i gave to someone on my website when they asked who to buy from. "Ah, a very good and simple question with a not very clear or simple answer. The problem is there is no one perfect supplier. There are many good essential oil suppliers but there are some crumby ones, and there are some cheap ones and some expensive ones. Fortunately, if an oil says it’s steam distilled or cold pressed and undiluted, then it probably is and I wouldn’t worry too much about it. Most oils are not too expensive so a bottle of cold-pressed lemon oil for 15-25 bucks is fine and most likely very high quality. Some though are very expensive. A 10 ml bottle of neroli or rose will never be less than 100 - 150 dollars. If you find a bottle of Neroli for less than that, it is for sure cut with other oils, but it will most likely say it is cut with other oils. In addition, there is no regulatory body overseeing essential oils. There are groups, such as the Essential Oil University, that will perform GCMS testing on oils and certify an oil’s level of purity, but submitting to groups like this is voluntary. The 2 main things to look for when buying oils are: 1). Only use cold press or steam-distilled oils. 2). Only use 100% pure oils. Never use oils cut with other oils. If you want to cover yourself find manufacturers that provide their GCMS oil test results. companies like Eden’s Garden and others do this, but those oils tend to come at a premium. If something seems too good to be true, it probably is. Lime or lemon oil for 15- 20 bucks is reasonable, but rose oil for 15-20 bucks? Impossible. You can find these oils online and 10-30 ml of pure essential oil will last you a long, long time. 10ml of an oil can fully flavor almost 2000 drinks. That’s over 5 years if you make 1 soda a day. Just to put the cost into perspective. By making your own syrups and sodas think of all the preservatives you are avoiding, but if buying oil stuff is a bit worrisome you can also make a homemade extract with the actual spices and peels. The essence recipes are 5% solutions but a standard extract will be 0.5%. just 10x each flavor for an extract replacing an essence. Instead of 0.5ml, use 5ml. just soak some nutmeg or lemon peels in vodka, add a teaspoon of each infusion, and call it a day. I hope this helps. Again it’s not a simple question to answer."

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Exactly! I get that comment quite often. “What!? And it’s alcoholic too?” Each drink is only 0.05% ABV and anything under 0.1 is considered nonalcoholic. Store bought juice has more alcohol from natural fermentation. Thanks for seeing that. I imagine it’s for religious reasons sometimes, but even the big manufacturers use it. They just don’t have to list it because it can be hidden in the natural flavors label.

If you thought that was bad, read the comments in the coca cola video lol.

Neroli and petit grain serve the same purpose in cola by adding an orange floral flavor. If you can I would replace them with orange blossom water. Orange blossom water is the byproduct of manufacturing neroli and it has the same flavor as neroli just much weaker. I would try adding 15 to 20 ml orange blossom water directly into the syrup. And pure neroli is incredibly expensive. For the nutmeg, if you can’t find nutmeg oil then I would try allspice. Allspice is also commonly called pimento spice. If you can find the spices but not the oils then I would make an extraction. Grind the spices up and soak them in the highest concentration of alcohol you can. 95% is best. And again try adding 15-20 ml directly to the syrup. If you don’t add these oils to the cola flavor base but instead add them as I describe above directly to the syrup then reduce the amount of alcohol used in the cola flavoring from 8 to around 6 oz. 95% alcohol can dissolve oil up to 5% of its volume. So you want to make sure the flavoring stays around a 5% oil alcohol solution. Just to keep it consistent so the flavor base is not too diluted. Good luck making this recreate those fun childhood memories!

I read a few old pharmaceutical soda making books on google books that were from the 1800s. I didn’t read them cover to cover obviously but I wrote down many of their recipes and tried to find the patterns. Similar to how there were cocktail books back then they also had soda recipe books. The pharmaceutical books have good explanations and techniques for making syrups and flavor solutions, but the normal soda books have some fun recipes. The pharmacist being chemist knew exactly what they were doing and had the best methods. The method I feel I make flavors in mostly what I’m going to call the Pemberton method. I’m sure other did it before him and it seems just to be the way pharmacist were taught back then to medicines. (Most medicines back then were liquid and alcohol was one of the best ways to extract oils so therefore most liquid medicine solutions were 5%. For higher concentrations they would use scarier liquids like acetone and such, but that gave people stomach cancer over a long enough period of time.) so yeah I try making 5% flavor solutions like they did and after a bit of math and experiment I found 1.5 ml of a 5% solution was perfect for flavoring 1kg of syrup. It produced sodas that tasted exactly the same flavor as store bought. And while back then most of the pharmaceutical guides gave recipes for 50+ gallons of syrup, if you scale them down they work out to around 1.5ml flavor to 1 kg simple syrup. Yeah it was pretty, cool I found in some medical journal.(I saved the link to it somewhere) and article about how the struggle to create grape soda lead to the invention of vacuum chamber evaporation. It mentioned nestle chocolate to and how now because of grape soda they food industry was cold evaporating all sorts of stuff. Evaporated milks, just concentrates. It said how Heinz began using it to make ketchup that was so much better than any ketchup anyone had had before. So yeah, I go on to google books, type in some soda related keywords, set the date range for 1800-1920, poke around for a bit and then experiment at home.

Right. Coke still has coca leaf extract in it but the cocaine is chemically removed. I have a few friends from South America and they say coca leaves are used as anti nausea medicine and I remember my grandmother saying she would give the kids coke syrup for upset tummies. I believe Pepsi is named Pepsi because it was originally used to treat dyspepsia.

My grandmother used to do that too and it makes sense. Coca leaf is used as an anti nausea medication in Bolivia and the other countries where the plant grows. Coca Cola still has coca leaf in it, but the cocaine is chemically removed. Thank you!

Sounds like a great way to live to me. I quit smoking cigarettes 7 years ago. Congratulations!