I drank 60's style Hot Dr Pepper | How to Drink

Believe It or Not people have brought this up to me a few times over the years that apparently hot Dr Pepper was a thing you know about Dr Pepper Dr Pepper is the mysterious canned beverage that has 23 authentic blend of flavors in it and it's a soft drink but did you know about hot Dr Pepper happy holidays that special time of the year to enjoy the festivities a fun time the perfect time for hot Dr Pepper just today on how to drink we're going to try hot doct pepper and I'm going to try it a couple of different ways and see if it's any good it's a holiday thing guest swing right into the holiday mood with distinctively different hot Dr Pepper so before we get into this hot Dr Pepper Fiasco I should probably share some information about Dr Pepper and also the origins of hot Dr Pepper this information comes to me courtesy of two sources one is Wikipedia and the other is the Dr Pepper Museum's website so Dr Pepper was formulated apparently by a Brooklyn Born Pharm IST by the name of Charles alderton in Morrison's old Corner drugstore in Waco Texas that information about Charles alerton you're going to find that on the Wikipedia nope not on the Dr Pepper Museum website they're keeping secrets about Dr Charles or sorry Mr Charles Alin apparently the drink's unique flavor was a hit when it was first sold in 1885 Wade Morrison the owner of the drugstore named it Dr Pepper after Dr Charles pepper a Virginia Doctor Who was the father of a girl Morrison was once in love with so Dr Pepper went worldwide at the 1904 St Louis Worlds Fair uh whereas everything that supposedly is introduced at World's Fair was an instant success now how do we get to the strange mixed up tale of hot Dr Peppa I don't know why I feel like I have to say it though I got to say it like a like a Kentucky Colonel hot doct pepper not even close we'll see if we can get the colonel to come out later on in 1958 the Dr Pepper president who I will now refer to as Dr president wesby R par Parker was visiting a bottling plant in a blizzard he it's a blizzard outside he goes to the bottling plant one of the sales guys he meets there makes an off-handed joke to the doctor president pepper wishing that they had something hot they could Mark at this time of year a hot beverage well Dr president Parker had some kind of shared Madness in him because he immediately went home and started messing around with heating up Dr Pepper and his confusing the living hell out of his wife I am quite sure he figured out two things over eating it made it really gross so be careful there you found that 180° fhe was ideal and a thin slice of lemon is vital it is not negotiable you must have that in your hot doct pepper and that is it there's all kinds of pictorial spreads and articles advertising you to drink do Dr Pepper hot they show it in big punch bowls at the Christmas party uh warm and delicious they also recommended you make something called a shush Boomer which I gather is some kind of 60s skiing reference uh by throwing some rum in it let's fire the sucker up it doesn't matter how many cans of Dr Pepper I throw in here suffice to say that they got to go in and by the way I got several varieties of Dr Pepper and we're going to try them all today on oh how to drink gug glug baby this is going to completely decarbonate and it's fizzing in here pretty aggressively whether I pour it in straight or not it's going to do this and that's because cold liquids have more space in them to hold carbon dioxide than hot beverages so as this as the molecules excite uh they will out all of their carbonation there's really not much I can do about that before I even get into this some people are going to be like hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey is that the Dr Pepper with the corn syrup or with the sugar went to my grocery store I got every variety of Dr Pepper that they had for sale I kind of thought because it's a comprehensive grocery store that they would have if it's available currently the real sugar Dr Pepper they don't I should do a blind taste test episode on sodas because I really truly believe that the any difference is in in your mind I I can't buy that that's going to be real so we're just going to go until it steams up a little bit in the meantime why don't I tell you what a doct pepper tastes like it's refreshing what is that flavor I think it's like cherry and cinnamon it is kind of a cool flavor it's not a cola there's a little bit of an earthy or ashy taste to it it's kind of nice apparently it's 23 flavors and it's fruity yes because Dr Pepper is not a cola not a root beer but a blend of deep fruit flavors we got some hot hot dock so the first thing we want to do is throw a lemon slice and next I want to uh I should have a ladle maybe there you go hot pepper all right here we go Dr Pepper hot let's see if it's any good it's not bad I kind of like that it feels like a thin flavor it's a flavor that wants body I'm looking at my Anga store bitters it's much less sweet than you would expect it to be it is a little bit of cherry and a little bit of vanilla and nice and warm it hangs out on like the sides of your tongue it's not the loudest flavor I really thought this was going to be really overpowering that's kind of it there's not like a whole lot more to say about it let's try a sh Boomer I don't have an actual recipe for a sh Boomer so I'm going to add an ounce and a half of rum kind of an old school core uh mid-century for ah now we're doging baby I think the ratio is off I think I'd go with a smaller pore of the rum but it's pretty great it's pretty good it's I this is really hard to believe but it's less sweet than I want it to be yeah I think my ratio is a bit off I think you kind of want some some more pepper it's different we've solved most of that like missing body problem it's got some thump and its bump it still is missing some Christmas notes I want there's not like some all spice and clove and cinnamon I got to do it I got to throw some EG store [Applause] [Music] no that's actually too much it's too much bitter it it doesn't jive at all it doesn't not drive but the anger store totally overpowers it so that's why hot Dr Pepper the happy holiday idea that pleases everyone hey so rocket money reached out to me asking if I would check out their app and I did and I actually loved it so that is why they are now the sponsor of this episode thank you rocket money for sponsoring this episode one of the main things I loved about about it is how quickly it did find a whole bunch of subscriptions that I must have signed up for at some point and completely forgotten about frankly embarrassed about how much of a disaster i' been on that front but hey we are who we are we have to accept that and uh I guess now I've got rocket money to cover that blind spot for me they can even cancel those services on my behalf with just a tap so I don't even need to deal with it myself and while that's the thing I happen to be most 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had it the first thing you got to know is it is zero calories crazy okay so Aspartame is what we're using here I do not like diet soda I was about to say but this one's okay it does start out tasting actually like Dr Pepper and then it tastes like diet soda I don't know what you call that fleem because it feels like it comes in from my ears like the flavor comes in from somewhere and attacks my mouth kind of metallic not like one of the taste tasty Metals this is going to be atrocious here we go Dr diet little lemon slicey so obviously my drip tray does [Music] nothing you know this this in this case it's really not that much different the lemon kind of nukes the um the bad aftertaste of aspartame to me now that second sip is awful yeah I really think that if you took an aluminum can like a can and rinsed it out and smelled this inside of the can that would match the taste of what I'm drinking here it sucks this does not spread holiday cheer there's there's no mirth in this glass this is bad I will try it with the rum I'm going to use a different rum stick with that ounce and a half just for science sake you know keep things nice and equal genuinely better but that's not saying much that took a new dimension there in a minute there bad tobacco like smelling somebody's nasty cigarello metallic can taste vague hints of cherry I'm waiting I know the rest of that is coming doctor's office it's coming now model glue yeah NY cement oh man I don't think this is good for you oh my God I'm done with this guy get him out of here so here's the thing when Dr Pepper introduced the whole idea of a hot Dr Pepper they only had two products in their line which was Dr Pepper diet Dr Pepper but now Dr Pepper's got a whole bunch of different flavors yeah give me some of that doctor's cream oh cream soda what does Dr Pepper cream soda taste like is it just oh it is and cream soda okay I don't even know if I can tell the difference these are almost identical there is a slight note at the very end there of like marshmallows and vanilla on the cream soda Dr Pepper and cream soda but they're almost identical so we're going to heat this up uh I will have to continue to make shush Boomers and uh for the rest of these I'm going to use Gosling's black seal because I got a big handle of it for making dark and stormies with and maybe we'll just instead of a sh Boomer we'll call these um Dr stormies which actually a really cool name we got some steam going here so let's throw in our lemon and our doctor doctor and cream a lot more cherry notes than even the regular hot doctor this one might be my favorite hot doctor so far that's actually really nice I was really I'm surprised there's no marshmallow notes in there but you do get a much more pronounced cherry and vanilla I kind of like that the lemon is minor but it does add a note of refreshingness to it let's see how it is as a creamy doctor stormy holy man really coming up with names today definitely not the worst thing I've ever had I think again I I'm going to switch from an ounce and a half to like an ounce or something or even three4 of an ounce when we had the rum because I think this ratio is way off has a nice tanginess to it with these pretty present but subtle hints of cherry and vanilla and then at about equal volume uh the rum the stuff that the rum is bringing which is this kind of tobacco humid or like smelling a cigar and what is that I mean I would call it molasses but like it's probably a combination of like Barrel Char and and burned sugar and caramel and stuff like that you know but not like a caramel but like wrecked sugar definitely so far my fav I wonder if we christmased it up with just like a splash of peppermint something let me see something here um you know ostensibly these hot Dr Peppers were marketed as Christmas beverages I do wonder how much a little splash of something with peppermint in it would do um I'm not enthused about the prospects of RumChata peppermint bark but I will try it do a tiny dose now let's go with a half an ounce of our smernoff Peppermint Twist that's a that's a lovely addition the flavors are getting noisy there's like a like a cacophony happening in here now but um I kind of like that it's like if you took a cherry cordial and wrapped it in a Peppermint Patty you know the Cherry cordil is the chocolate with the cherry and the syrup in it cordal for you in the UK I'm not going to lie that could a Christmas winner that could be a Christmas winner I think the prospect of adding cream to it is foul but what the we'll try it slam it in there hot dock coming in let's try some creamy RumChata I think this will probably overpower oops for what it's worth it's a half an ounce to I don't know 12 oh God it curdled instantly um that is extremely unattractive God a chunky now this won't be good The Taste isn't atrocious it's actually kind of not the worst I think I prefer it brighter with the peppermint Lor than the creamy stuff but um it looks absolutely disgusting I mean it's just it's it's unacceptably ugly all right so we had the minty fresh hot Dr stormy so let's heat up some Dr Pepper zero sugar which apparently is a little bit different from Dr Pepper diet and of course first we're going to do a side by- side comparison while it's heating up all right so this is Diet versus the zero sugar cuz why not here we go diet it's got that metallic Rey dry taste in there this is zero sugar it's reads is much sweeter and there's no like metallic flavor but like this it's a weird it's like a bubble gum it's like bubble gum sugar okay we got some steam happening we're ready to go here we are Dr Pepper zero sugar it's just bad it's just very lame we're going to add the rum to it I am going to cut it down to like the uh 3/4 of an ounce ah go 1 oz I'm really not expecting any kind of magic here to happen no definitely not magic maybe dark magic whoa that combination really brings out the worst of everybody that made whatever is happening in zero sugar Dr Pepper to be awful very loud and it also made the stuff in the goslings that is the artificial stuff because like goslings is a black rum so it's like artificially aged which is a tradition but it makes all of that very loud as well and the combination is a dumpster fire of a drink yeah it tastes like the smell of motor oil uh so far the cream soda with a couple of different variations in there has actually been pretty decent why does Dr Pepper have a strawberries and cream I don't know here we are Dr Pepper wow that smells like an 80s doll oh my God I'm going to have to burn the studio after this all right well that heats up got to do the taste test Bottoms Up [Music] boys I don't really taste anything in there to tastes like drct pepper anymore it is just strawberries and cream what does the cream taste like I don't know exactly like vanilla like there's a touch of vanilla nothing in this um tastes like Dr Pepper yeah I don't like this strawberry it's a very aggressive strawberry let's light this candle baby get our lemon W in there the creamy hot doctor strawberry I do taste the strawberry notes they're still there they're not cooked out or anything arguably this is better than the strawberries and cream Dr Pepper cold that isn't saying much as the lemon develops it does kind of take over a little bit cuz now it's more lemon than anything else it tastes like doll dare I okay 1 oz of M rum this is a dark and Strawberry Shortcake I guess I whoa Whoa man at first I was like yeah it's kind of like unpleasantly rumed up not like my favorite rum but like yeah it's rum and then Dr strawberry face came back so hard so deep so fast fast so brutal like plastic this tastes like what I imagine melting plastic to taste like wow I hate you Dr Pepper I hate you it's the final pepper this is a little something that they call Dr Pepper strawberries and cream zero sugar because as we all all know the strawberries and cream was so popular that they had to offer a version of it that was zero sugar let's heat them up okay now while that zero sugar sugite Dr Pepper zero sugar strawberries and cream is heating up we're going to find out what this garbage tastes like nobody could possibly like that it's just that diet soda metal taste with a tinge a littlea of the smell of a hot glue gun yeah it's the worst one oh good it's hot so it's actually weirdly improved by heating this one so far that second sip on lot of these has really been strange it kind of tastes like the strawberries and cream the original again like somehow some of the metal the artificial sugar flavor is gone it's bad again there is a nose of just like extreme oh that's like a specific candy I'm going to say bubblegum oh Pez it smells like Pez yeah that that smells like Pez I just want to lie down now but I gotta do this for you for the sake of [Music] completion here's forget [Music] it it is disgustingly Sweet It Is disgustingly strawberry Pez likee it is disgustingly tobacco I would be hard pressed to imagine something worse than this like it's as about as bad as it gets maybe there are things that are worse you know but like it's right there hot Dr Peppa put it in your cup I'm going to tell you what Dr Pepper with cream soda heated up with rum and the peppermint schnaps or peppermint vodka whatever you want was actually kind of tasty plain Dr pepper heated up was okay plain Dr paper paper heated up with rum was every other thing here was just atrocious but that's that hey hey hey if you man it's Dr Pepper time

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Published: Thu Dec 21 2023