welcome friends welcome to episode 2 of our DIY Cola series in the last episode we
made what is purported to be the 1886 Pemberton Coca Cola recipe written in
his own hand writing in his ledger and I got a lot of feedback online about that
recipe and most of it was from people that didn't quite understand what was
going on a lot of people sort of expect that the cocaine that's in coca-cola or
was in coca-cola at that time was put in by some guy you know pour in a bag of
white powdery purified cocaine in which wasn't the case they were using an
extract of the coca leaf at that point but it wasn't pure cocaine it was sort
of a mix between the botanical bittering compounds and the alkaloids but not pure
cocaine so thank you everybody for pointing out that I didn't use cocaine I
didn't use cocaine because it's not in the recipe the second group of people
were all about the Kola nut and by that point in the recipe : nut wasn't used in
coca-cola he just wanted straight caffeine didn't
want the flavor he only wanted to hit a caffeine so he was only using citrate of
caffeine which is pure caffeine so now I've got that out of the way we're gonna
move on and we're gonna start playing with some of the things that we've found
it when we made that recipe and we're gonna start honing it in and we're gonna
turn it into squozen Cola which was one of the other top comments people loved
the word squozen so to start off I'm still going to use the 7 X mixture I'm
not gonna make any changes to that but I will probably use a different proportion
of this in the final mix so to get started water in the pot and you'll
notice it's in a graduated jug just like last time which means I measured the
water another comment that came up a lot and we're just going to bring that up to
temperature not too hot I don't want it to boil I just wanted to get it warm
enough that we can mix in the sugar now
another comment that was brought up over and over and over again
was that I should be using real cane sugar well we live in Canada and this is
real cane sugar that beet sugar that you get in the United States doesn't happen
here dried corn sugar not a thing here this is real cane sugar and I've cut the
amount of sugar from the last recipe immeasurably I've taken out about 3035
percent of the sugar and I think that's gonna be better
for Julie and I what we're looking for so I'm just gonna stir this in and get
it dissolved wow that's dissolving I'm going to
squeeze some limes and I'm going to up the amount of lime juice
this time from last
okay everything has dissolved now we didn't bring it up to a boil it's just
sort of barely body temperature enough of that next in is the caramel now this
is a commercial-grade industrial caramel highly concentrated it is still just
sugar it just is in such a high concentration
that it is super dark now I know people aren't there screaming you're not
supposed to measure over top of your it's okay it's just caramel and if I get
an extra milliliter in its not really going to matter all that much really
sweet really really sweet so that goes in next in is our citric acid and I've
upped the amount of citric acid from last time I think it just needs a little
bit of extra punch the current coca-cola formulation uses phosphoric acid and
that's something I've used in the past making beer and I look down the brewery
and I don't have any and I'm gonna try and get some next time I go to the brew
shop Julie and I brew beer so if you want to look at our brewing channel
where we brew and drink beer the link the link mix that in now freshly squozen
lime juice I'm bumping up the lime juice from last time almost doubling it and I
think that the drink can handle it so that goes in pretty cool so far now
vanilla a lot of people were surprised that there was vanilla as a flavor in
coke kind of surprised me a little bit too but at the same time vanilla is in
almost everything at this point always has been it's a very complex
flavor and I'm gonna put more in just to see what happens and again I know you're
not supposed to measure over top but I'm pretty careful
I mean measuring into measuring spoons is something that I do for a living now
the caffeine I'm gonna cut down the caffeine a lot it was way over
caffeinated last time so I think I'm gonna cut it down to that
much and now the bittering compound and I think people over emphasized in the
last video the importance of the bittering compound it doesn't really add
much to the flavor but let's give it a shot
okay so we'll measure this out so we can calculate how much 7x to use smells
really good and I think we've got the color this time so let's see how much
there is there's gonna be a different amount because I've changed up the
ingredients quite a bit two and a half liters so I'm going to use 10 mils of 7x
this time which is two teaspoons for our American cousins and I'm gonna pour this
over here because I didn't do a very good job last time I spilled everywhere
still gonna spill everywhere put that in immediately changes the colour of the
syrup so we'll stir that in if any one I mean that is so even watered down in in
there that is a lot a lot of concentrated flavor unbelievable how
concentrated that flavor is so now we have the syrup and I guess what I didn't
explain last time that some people were missed on is that this is the sugar
syrup you mix this syrup one part of this syrup to five parts soda water
so we're diluting this this is a lot of pop I think that's pretty good
so gonna put that in the fridge cool it down and see what Julie says when she
gets home
okay well is in so this is the one we made last time on the 1886 recipe and
this is one that I've played around with today okay
scores and cola oh this is disclosing this wasn't going so alright let's see
this is last week's mm-hmm yeah interesting
okay I still need to work on this I think it's lemony I upped the amount of
of lime juice mm-hmm I don't think I should have now I realize that was a
mistake yeah for those of us who really like
lime with Arcola yes so you're saying you know I'm as much as this was the
1886 recipe and I took a lot of flack for changing out one ingredient which
you know technically we're not allowed to have so um what are you gonna do I'm
not really trying with this to recreate coke cuz I can buy a coke
yeah it's that you really like what do I really want in a cola and what do I want
to drink in my backyard this summer see I still find that one super sweet but
then I'm not the same I'm I find coke really sweet so I
dropped the sugar in this yeah and I think the sweetness level is now correct
I think I just need to dial back the lime juice I really like the lime but
that's just cuz I like so do you do you like that I like the light okay I like
the lime too but I think the lime is just maybe a little bit too much for you
yeah okay so that's experiment number two we'll do it one more time okay and
then we'll do a full on taste test I'm still looking for RC Cola um I don't
know where I'm gonna find it and yeah it feels like it's so common like it's
feels like it's easy to find like we've seen it and yeah oh yeah have to get
when you go looking you never find any provider okay thanks for stopping by
we'll see you again soon and we're gonna keep working on this
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