Creating a Homemade Version of a Popular Soda

🍹 Dr Pepper is a beverage with a distinct flavor that was created to recreate the smell of a pharmacy.

🍊🍋 The recipe for homemade Dr Pepper includes orange and lemon peel.

🥕🍅 An unexpected ingredient in homemade Dr Pepper is carrots and tomatoes.

🌿 Using various herbs and spices like licorice roots, cloves, nutmeg, juniper berries, and cinnamon stick, we can create the flavor profile of Dr Pepper.

🧪 Crushing and extracting the flavors from the ingredients using ethanol or other alternatives like glycerin mix is crucial in making Dr Pepper from scratch.

❌ The homemade Dr Pepper recipe doesn't contain any ethanol, as it is only used in the extraction process and gets burned off when cooking or baking.

🧪 The video demonstrates a process to create a homemade flavor profile for Dr Pepper from scratch using a vacuum chamber.

🌬️ By creating a vacuum, the ingredients release their oils and flavors, resulting in a concentrated Dr Pepper flavoring.

🍹 Vanilla essence, almond extract, and a drop of rum are added to enhance the homemade Dr Pepper flavor.

🥤 The video demonstrates how to make a homemade version of Dr Pepper using a combination of ingredients.

🧪 The process involves making a flavored syrup using sugar, water, and drops of Amaretto, root beer, and cola for the flavoring.

💧 After caramelizing the syrup, it is cooled and mixed with sparkling water, citric acid, and other ingredients to create the homemade Dr Pepper.

🔑 The recipe for making a homemade version of Dr Pepper involves mixing sweeteners, food coloring, and almond extract to achieve a similar taste.

👃 The homemade version of Dr Pepper smells very similar to the original.

👅 While the homemade version of Dr Pepper is not an exact match, it is close and has a rating of 7.8 out of 10 in terms of similarity.