[Raspberry & Citrus Syrup] Blue Raspberry Soda 

Thank you! I did the best I could and I hope I did the drink justice.

That’s so cool! How fun is that. I wanna try doing something like that

Hell yeah! It was.

A buddy of mine told me about this drink too. I'll try and get some to taste it and do some research into the recipe. Thank you

* 68ml orange extract * 4.5ml almond extract * 45ml vanilla extract * 5.6ml iron * 45ml 95% alcohol * 2.8g vanillin powder * 34ml tonic water * 10ml sugar syrup * 5ml glycerine The iron is Ammonium Iron Citrate dissolved in water. It can be stored in a cool, dark place once made. It's a very dark brown colour. * 5g Ammonium Iron Citrate * 45ml warm water Add 30ml of the mix to 1 litre of simple syrup and add 1.5ml each of citric and tartaric acid powders and some It lacks a bit of the "banana/tutti-frutti" flavour that 1901 Irn Bru has, but it's a pretty good flavour regardless and does taste close. I may play with adding a bit of ethyl isovalerate or ethyl butyrate to get that "banana/tutti-frutti" flavour going as well, but I'm quite happy with this as a drink. This mix will get you about 4 litres of cordial in total - 30ml of cordial in a 300ml glass will get you nearly 34 drinks per litre - so around 136 glasses of drink in total. Around £40 of outlay in ingredients for about 40 litres of drink double the almond extract amount and you get a slightly more 'tangy' Irn Bru flavour, but I quite like the muted version. 1 drop of either ethyl butyrate or ethyl isovalerate (no more than 1!) will add that "banana/tuttu-frutti" aftertaste.

Thanks lady! It was a fun one to make

No I live in the USA. I got them from a standard grocery store (smiths I think, but Walmart will have these too) in the baking section. For this drink I wanted to keep it simple and make sure the ingredients were common.

It was 17 fruit juices that enhanced the cola flavor right? I thought about that but I have no idea how that would be done. Dr Pepper is supposed to be a blend of 23 flavors so maybe it would be something like that? But that’s 23 spices, herbs, and juice. trying to imagine just 17 juices is hard. I already have one of those glass bottles from Bethesda so I’ll use that. But I’ll think about how that would be done and experiment. You’re right. I probably should have done pomegranate but it’s hard to find a good pomegranate flavor other than just the juice. To get a good flavor also I would have had to use a bit of juice and I wanted this to be bright blue without the red and the taste wasn’t very strong. I didn’t really like the official cookbook recipe either so I just did something for fun I thought would be easy to replicate. Have you seen Tim Cain’s RU-vid channel? It’s really good. youtube.com/@CainOnGames

@@VintageAmericanCocktails not necessarily juices, just 17 fruit flavours of some sort, yeah, getting pomegranate neon blue can't be easy Of the 7x flavouring, like 4 to 5 are already fruits, so it lowers the amount you have to guesstimate

@@eitanmichaeli6770 I’m on it! Colas are super fun. I just finished making Pepsi, so I should be posting that soon. I got the recipe from a 1923 bankruptcy document.

@@VintageAmericanCocktails nice! Though i thought they changed the recipe after bankruptcy?

@@eitanmichaeli6770 man you’re good! They did! The first change came in 1931 when they were bought by the loft candy company and they have changed it a few times since then with the most recent being this year. So this will be the original 1893 recipe which after making it still taste pretty darn close to a modern day Pepsi.