Distilling Alcoholic Dr Pepper
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- čas přidán 6. 01. 2022
- Im distilling Dr pepper along with a specially selected spirit just to see what happens. Will the flavours carry over and make a Dr Pepper bomb . . . . .spoinler alert no! But its interesting anyway.
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Chemistry note for you, a bunch of flavorings are oil based and form an azeotrope with water in a process called steam distillation. Adding ethanol to the mixture possibly “breaks” the azeotrope leaving the flavorings in the still. It may be better to do a steam distillation of the dr. pepper alone and then add ethanol after to get a stronger flavor
Dr pepper make your own natural ingredients
Dirty (Bomb) Dr pepper
Was contemplating how you could get a more concentrated Dr. Pepper flavor and remembered working in restaurants and how the soda machines worked. Basically, all of the sodas are sold in syrup form and then the machine adds soda water and mixes it. Maybe if you could get your hands on some of that syrup, you could get higher flavor concentration from the get go. That's my theory, at least.
I used an old Dr pepper syrup barrel as a fermentation vessel for my last rum and the rum came out with that same kind of undertone of Dr Pepper I picked it out right away because I am a regular DrPepper guy
Oh dude that would be tasty as!
Dr. Pepper is nicknamed "Texas Barbeque Water" down south in USA. But it was designed by a pharmacist in Waco Texas as a cure for stomach aches (Coca-Cola being made by a doctor as a cure for headaches) and was then sold to a local pharmacy as a drink. Then became carbonated on their soft drink dispenser and is what we know today. Dr. Pepper is still today one of the only drink companies that has never had a franchise and still retains ownership even though it is now bottled and distributed by Coca-Cola. In the USA it is the only soft drink you can get from both PepsiCo and Coca-Cola. It's prominent flavor out of all 23 is Prune And does take up the majority of the flavor concentration (63% if I remember correctly). I have loved it since I was a wee young lad and always will lol.
In the North (I'm in Ohio) Dr. Pepper is bottled/distributed by Pepsi. I am really curious to get to the South and see Dr. Pepper in a coke bottle.
DR PEPPER/7up bottling company.
In Louisville KY. Somehow tied into RC Cola.
@@abockrath Its in the same bottle. They license that too. BTW I have never heard DP called Texas Barbecue Water and I have been from VA to FL over the years. Maybe in Texas. I do know there is a BBQ recipe that involves DP
Great ad lol
@@TheGroundedCoffee This is not me in any way nor anyone I know. Just want to make that clear. Its just to point out the exact one I have. There are a lot of variations out there. Make sure its all stainless and has the variable controller.
That was fun! Just a note, your link to the air still is actually a link to the modern rogue videos- don't want you to miss out on that $$!
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Wouldn't you like to be a pepper too!
Here's a thought. Do a non-alcoholic distillation of Dr Pepper to get the flavor bomb. Then you could just add it to a distilled spirit to lower ABV in place of water. Or soak an oak stave in it, dry it, then use it to age something (like a rum)
Or just mix Dr Pepper with booze. We're trying way too hard to make a simple drink. Cola and booze. TWO INGREDIENTS. NO STILL REQUIRED.
you've missed the point of these meme spirits
@@hxhdfjifzirstc894 Yes, but even then: what booze, what apv, etc. Even if you make a cocktail like you are describing (because, yes, it would be a cocktail and NOT a distilled spirit like....well the entire point of the channel), there are still things to consider.
After the run, your dunder may have been the concentrated flavor profile that you were seeking. As the wash was clean (just spirit and soda) I would think that the dunder should be tasty and perhaps a few mils into distillate would yield a very interesting outcome.
When I moved to Waco Texas, I discovered it was invented there by a pharmacist and there's even a museum to it. Lol
It's the first soda ever invented and if you can get a hold of the pure syrup, it makes a great remedy for an upset stomach when you pour it over crushed ice and sip it slowly. Probably the ginger and cola that settles the stomach.
I'd bet that this would be perfect to have the 40% distillate as the alcohol mix and then dash it with a fresh Dr Pepper and some ice, that will really blend the flavours in well and make for an easy drinking alcoholic soda. nice
At that point, it is just a cocktail. Probably better tasting, but not a distilled spirit in the end. It would be a cocktail.
Dr. Pepper has always tasted to me like a cross between root beer and cherry cola.
2nd
I'm from Washington State and I'm drinking a Dr.Pepper as I watch this. Love the stuff lol. Awesome video
haha ayyyeee nice!
You may be loosing flavor due to the Fischer-Speier Esterification reaction.
Without alcohols present, you may be able to get a Dr. Pepper distillate easily, but with the addition of ethanol and other alcohols, you may be transforming flavor into esterified compounds that aren’t aromatic in the same way.
Hmmmmm that is a solid point! It was very fleeting the first time around.
@@StillIt My favorite reaction from o-chem
Good observation.
We need to try to get Jesse together with Nigel (from NileRed)... something very fun would come out of that!
That was an amazingly well thought through comment well done 👏🏻
My wife was a Dr Pepper nut until she got pregnant, now the baby won't let her drink it and only wants cherry coke. I find it to be a little too sweet for my taste, but it is one of the very few super sweet sodas that I can sometimes drink. But that being said, a Dr Pepper vodka sounds amazing. Alcohol to cut the sweetness, the sweetness to offset vodkas rubbing alcohol taste... This was a fun experiment to watch and I hope you keep trying when ever you're able and have a surplus of Dr Pepper that you can spare to further experiment with.
Have you had a smokey Dr pepper? That's the goods. Something like Laphroaig.
@@StillIt I have not, but I will have to try it. Thanks for the recommendation!
@@StillIt that sounds delicious what kinda wood would you recommend for someone in the United States to smoke it with?
Hit the nail on the head. I always heard it was secretly a mix of coke and rootbeer. The creator was notorious for mixing sodas together soooo.. who knows.
Dr. Pepper can be described SIMPLY as "The Nectar of the Gods" and can be left at that!!!
This test needs to be done again by actually fermenting the Dr Pepper.. really curious as to how this would turn out!
Dr Pepper floats are the bomb. Still love root beer floats. Dr. Pepper cake AND 7up cakes are amazing. Dr. Pepper warmed is the best, removed the carbonation and makes taste better.
Dr.pepper is the drink choice or nectar of the Gods basically!
My cousin literally calls Dr Pepper, "nectar of the gods."
My veins were filled will Dr Pepper as a teenager/young adult!
We grew up in Texas calling Dr. Pepper “prune juice”, so I laughed a little too loudly when you said the only aromas were cherries and prunes.
lol....same in Ohio.
Same in So Cal. "Carbonated prune juice".
Must be a North Texas thing
@@ryangaskin4796 I e lived in south texas, north texas, currently central texas. I’ve never heard of this before.. never heard it called prune juice. And I’m nearly 40..
Lol…🤣
I actually like Dr. Pepper every now and then…
But when I lived down south I REALLY liked Cheerwine…
I can’t get it up north.
But I’m not sure I want to distill either.🤷♂️🤣🤣🤣👍🥃
Dr. Pepper reminds me of a tamer almond extract, but with almost a cola base. Great stuff, and great content!
Also, not sure if there's sufficient interest, but you can get Dr. Pepper syrup (shipping to NZ might be an adventure though). It's around $150US for 5 gallons (19ish liters) of concentrate.
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I love your laugh, and your passion for this is very evident
I tried to make a Dr. Pepper Twizzler mead a few years ago and it was an unmitigated failure, so I feel you on this one.
I wouldn't give up on the Dr. Pepper influence. I mesquite smoked 10% barley in a bourbon mash and had 0 smoke flavor coming off the still....2 months later, it was like drinking a campfire...there may be hope for the Dr. Pepper influence yet!
dr pepper is my favorite whiskey mixer. i love to freeze my cheaper whiskey and put it in a cup about half inch and fill the rest with dr pepper
Keep going with these experimental videos - they are a good watch
Always fun thx jessie
Next time, put the DP into a thumper instead of the still.
Jesse, you are enjoyable to watch and listen to for various reasons, lol. It's a shame Dr Pepper is so difficult to come by there. It really is great. What's even better though is the Dr Pepper w/cream soda. Would be interesting to see what concoctions you could come up with with that.
yes! Been wanting a re-do of this one..
If you can get a hold of some of the syrup for soda fountains, that might work better. You could also try boiling down the soda to syrup as well.
I'd suggest you get Dr. Pepper syrup and a neutral spirit and mix them. That's the only way I can see where it went wrong. There is already a whole lot of water in the soda, so that would affect the distillation in that it would water down the liquor beforehand. I can't speak from experience as I have none. Just a suggestion for next time.👍
I love how the DNA spiral on your T-shirt goes down into the glass of distilled spirits.
I found after infusing a nice potato vodka with garlic for a few days nothing paired better with it than a fresh cold can of Dr pepper, absolutely amazing
I got the idea from this to add yeast & nutrients to DP, let it ferment, & AirStill-It ;) Curious to see what happens. I think the starting pH will be key.
I wondered if you took the Dr Pepper syrup that you can get for soda fountain machines and fermented it then distilled it would it work better?
no, consesus is that any soda fermented is usually terrible
If it was made with real sugar instead of HFCS then it should, in theory, work. Don't know for sure, but that's my best guess.
@@jasonsummit1885 You can get dr pepper with real sugar!
Just add it to booze. Or regular Dr Pepper and booze. IT'S SO SIMPLE. NO WORK AT ALL.
Hello from South Africa love the videos!!
As a Texan I'm glad somebody else enjoys our BBQ water.
"Dr Pepper is hard to get here"
We need to send this man a few cases!
Love your content Bra..
Dr. Pepper is delicious. Really shows what you can accomplish with an advanced degree.
My Father in law adds yogurt flavoring just before his spirit run on his Sugar wash runs and it adds tons of flavor to the end product.
Super videp
Great video as usual. I was wondering what your abv was for the alcohol you started with? Thanks
Love your channel id love to see the process of where you get your oak or is it store bought?
I Think you have the links mixed up, in the link for the still is the same as the one above.
Really like your channel, never stop!
Im sorry man, I messed it up I fixed now :)
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I would some up Dr pepper as almond coke 😂🤣😂 we have it available to buy here in UK
I got one of these air stills off fleaBay for 75USD, VELVOR brand. Its all stainless top and bottom inside and the best thing of all is it has a PID temp control. Works a treat.
Have you used it yet? I was looking at that exact still and intrigued as to how well it works.
@@mrp1015 Done a lot of H2O, we go through a gal a week, and one wash. The wash was just a sugar wash, it was not that tasty but that was not the fault of the unit, likely the cheap baking yeast . I am going to do a basic molasses and brown sugar wash next, with DADY and see how that turns out. 3 or maybe 5 gal if I feel frisky and do 3/5 stripping runs. You set the temp to just over methanol and wait and then crank it up to just over ethanol.
Sounds like I have the same unit. Find it a bit of a pain to use as it's not a constant temp, rather it heats up to target temp then turns off, turning back on when it drops a bit in temp. I think I'm going to rip its smart bits out and just use a power regulator to control the element. Or just wait a few months until I have room to build a better still. Been using Birdwatchers wash for it and it comes out ok, I'd just like to cut still time down.
@@adamparisi745 Mine with the PID control has a 3 digit display, up/down and on/off buttons. Since you can run it with the top off it can also double as a small souse vide. :)
@@MostlyInteresting Yep, definitely same unit.
I’m curious if there would be a difference between what you get from diet and regular soda. Though they often use different flavor compositions between them two
Awesome video as always! Would be very interested in carrot alcohol!
Thanks Jesse!
Cool shirt!
Ok have a tip for you and saving your open soda/beer can. Take you plastic food store bag and roll it up and then fold that in half and then in half again. Then squeeze the folded bag till it fills the hole. The bag will expand and give your can a good seal ad it will stay fresh.
Here in Canada Dr.Pepper is pretty popular. It's the king of pop (soda) in my opinion. Amazing mixed with Crown Royal Canadian whiskey.
i cant remember who said it but i agree that Dr Pepper "tastes like a sexy battery" and i love it
also, an idea for meme spirits: Pumpkin spice brandy made from pumpkin wine
Restaurants use the condensed syrup for the taps/fountains you may be able to find those online since a bottle or can of soda uses next to none of the syrup and mostly water you may get a better result mixing the pure syrup with the spirit?
Our local New world has a itnernational section and usualy has 2x8 of em usualy for around 2NZD a can
I did this a while back with Irn Bru. But I did it the lazy way, by reducing the Irn Bru to a syrup and then adding to standard vodka. And then, I carbonated it for maximum effect. I had the right colour and mouthfeel, but came out rather perfumy in flavour.
I'm not only an American... I'm a Texan, birthplace of Dr Pepper and lifelong DP drinker.
It's kola, cherry juice, prune juice, and black peppercorn. 😁😆
American sodas started as health drinks in the late 1800s. Dr. Pepper was one. They were flavored with roots and herbs and most times concocted by a pharmacist. Root beer is older, and has its roots in colonial small beers. I've also heard it was influenced by the use of sarsparilla as a tea, to use instead of British tea, in colonial America.
Ohhh man that ginger 'Vodka' ? Spirit would be GREAT for making Mosco Mules!
Born and raised in Texas and still my go to in Hawaii
I think South Park had the best description of doctor pepper, the drink of agnosticism being not a cola or a root beer or similar to any other drink.
You can buy Cola or flavored soda pop syrups online and eliminate the carbonated water from the mix
I always find your videos entertaining and informative.
After watching today, I had a couple of questions.
Firstly, I wasn’t aware that the Air Still could be run with under four litres of wash etc.; you mentioned using about 2 2/3 cans of Dr Pepper; what was the volume and ABV of the spirit used?
Secondly, how many mL’s of the spirit did you discard at the start of the run; was this discarded strictly because of taste or were there also safety considerations.
Thanks, Will
Like I said as I was doing it 0 safety concerns because it was a spirit that was already distilled with solid cuts. Just artistic decision.
Yup, I run it with much less than that sometimes. Never been a problem. Perhaps not "advized" much less than 1.5L but I get away with it fine.
So what would happen if you took sodas with notably high sugar content and pitched some yeast into that and stilled it?? Might be fun experiment
I think Beaver DIY has a fermented cola episode.
I am here in Czech Republic, currently drinking mixed drink of Dr Pepper and vodka, I really like it. Yes, we have Dr Pepper available easily, but it is a bit expensive for my liking. 1.7 Euro for 1.5 liter bottle?! Kofola, which is local herbal and licorice Cola, is half the price! But hey, Dr Pepper is unique, so for that reason, I do buy it sometimes.
The link to the still is just hte link to the MR YT vid
Here is a link to the still I am using:
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Im sorry man I messsed it up. Fixed now:
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@@StillIt hehe. No worries. Easy to do. Love your work!!! Thanks!!!
I’m American the only way I know of to describe it is it tastes like Dr Pepper. It does have a root beer slant but not really
If you ever visit Texas, go to Waco and visit the original factory, the Dr Pepper Museum.
Dr. Pepper reminds me of cherry cough syrup. It’s one of the drinks of Texas along with Big Red. I like Dr. Pepper, but I’m not like a normal Texan who has Dr. Pepper running through their veins. Brach’s does make a Dr. Pepper hard candy so I wonder if you put some of that in a gin basket or soaked the alcohol in it and redistilled it like a gin would it give you the spirit you’re looking for?
BIG RED! That's a blast from the past! I totally forgot about it! What a great soda!
@@BradGarner yep! It’s still a thing here at least in our area. Both were created in Waco, Texas. Which is just south of West, Texas. That’s the capital for the best breakfast food in Texas the kolache! The Czech Stop’s breakfast sausage kolache is the best!
@@FoolOfATuque wasn't west where the fertilizer plant exploded?
@@chvfd687 yes, that’s the place.
Fun!
Nicely done do you know what the abv of the alcohol you added to the Dr. P in the still?
Would love to know tho if you fermented with dr pepper instead of water in a sugar mash maybe then taste would be better , new and wondering thx for vid love them for a noobie
Dr pepper is a spiced Cherry soda with notes of raspberry prune and many other flavors 32 individual flavors not counting the flavor from the sugar and other non-flavoring ingredients.
Hi jesse ,
Have you ever thought of running the air still with a separate feed for the fan and the element through an SCR to get more control?.
Yeah I had. But to be honest if anything I think I would want more power in most situations to the element rather than less. Or I should say its normally actually very good power level. But in the cases I would want it different it would be more.
Distil Alabama Sweet Tea!
Dr pepper goes well with amaretto or cherry brandy or both for that matter for a cherry bakewell vibe
Could you use the syrup that soda fountains mix with carbonated water to make a wash for more dr pepper flavour?
Ginger vodka...that sounds delicious and the perfect way to up the flavor of a Moscow Mule.
online you can get a soda stream brand syrups, like coke pepsi and stuff, it's a extra flavorful syrup. I'd try that next
I as an american of the fat variety, drink way more dr. pepper than you could probably imagine and i still dont know what the heck it tastes like its just friggin goooood. kinda like trying to describe coke as anything but a cola. its just dr.pepper!
Dr Pepper is just nectar of the gods. If I'm not drinking sweet tea or water, I'm drinking Dr pepper.
Out of all the soft drink based alcohols I've seen they always have a pre-head of aromatics. I'd like to see a pre fermentation distill step of pulling the aromatics out, keeping it separated and keep pulling bland liquids out to leave a concentrate to ferment. Do a normal distill of the fermented concentrate then add the aromatics from the very start. I think a lot of the soft drink smells are lower boiling and get caught up with the methanol and are lost.
Dr pepper is my favorite soda!. It's a u love it or u hate it drink. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens..
You should attempt this with multiple sodas, with a semi flavourless vodka. Mtn Dew, Cola, Fanta etc
We love our DR.Pepper here in Missouri USA. I wonder if you just had more of it at first…? Might be worth trying for fun.
When you get DP how much does it cost there?
You can also try the Dr Pepper Shot! 1 shot of amaretto with 151 rum floated on top and lit on fire. Drop that into 1/2 pint of a light beer and enjoy!.Tastes just like Dr Pepper!
would adding more dr pepper before starting help add more to the end taste?
(sorry new to the whole whiskey life)
What was the Dr Pepper sweetend with and does it matter when distilling?
Is it possible to ferment a soda and destill it? Or does the citric acid in most sodas mess things up?
You should try just the Dr pepper syrup they sell it on Amazon in 5 gallons for soda fountains
Jesse what makes the still you used Turbo compared to similar ones on Amazon that don’t?
I'm in USA and I much prefer diet dr pepper to the regular. Also captain Morgan and dr pepper AKA "ships dr" is my all time favorite. You aren't a cocktail guy but you are on to somthing here. Use a rum sugar cane base next time. It's a million dollar idea if you can get it into a bottle. And prunes is is the flavor point prominant in american dr pepper.
If I make some oil with this same distiller, is there a way to distill the oil again that I make?
I tried fermenting, and distilling Coca-Cola syrup. It was nasty, very bitter. However, lots of ginger, pie spice, and other flavors I could not identify. That said, that was over 15 years ago, and only memory left of it. And we all know how accurate memories are.
I wonder if you would have different results using Mexican Dr. Pepper? It has a very distinctive taste, apart from regular dp canned in the states. It's made with cane sugar. Also, I wonder, if you happened to come across an actual, list of the 23 individual flavors. And you were able to distill each individually and then mix them in the end, how would that do.
Sad that Dr. Pepper isn't really readily available there. I follow a few different channels from down under, (one in particular, The Skid Factory) and one thing they have me curious about is, what is a Lemon Squash?
Jesse: Do you have any idea what temp the Still Spirits distills at? I see there are variable temperature units available at much lower prices. I printed the instruction manual, but it does not mention the temperature.
Well you can always use it as a mixer with other sodas, like a COCA COLA or Dr pepper. When I used to like mixed drinks I would typically order either Coke with tequila, Sprite and vodka or Dr pepper and rum.
When you distill like this with spirits you already had distilled, do you have to chuck the “heads” off the first little bit? Or is it safe to do??
Привет! Очень интересный контент! Мне интересно с какой скоростью вы отбираете при дистилляции первые легкокипящие фракции?