Coca-Cola’s history has been well-documented. The drink was invented in 1885 by John Pemberton, a pharmacist from Atlanta, Georgia, who made the original formula in his backyard. Pemberton’s recipe contained cocaine in the form of an extract of the coca leaf, which inspired the “Coca” part of the beverage’s name. The “Cola” comes from the kola nut (which contains caffeine, another stimulant).
@@rickrollrizal No, it was already sort of a cocktail. Let's read the full recipe on the "Vintage American Cocktails" official site, paper named "French Wine Coca - Predacesor to Coca-Cola" (June 28, 2023). There you will find two photos of Pemberton's work, one for the French Wine and one for the Coke. Have fun, my friend !
Franklin Garrett the historian for CocaCola was a high school friend of my mother and father and used to visit our house often. He and my father called coke "dope" because of the cocaine content it once had. As I remember it did contain kola nuts. The Coke that we drank in the 1950's tasted nothing like the Coke of today. It was refreshing and actually made you feel better. The syrup was sold by druggists as medicine for sick babies.
Isn’t it amazing. The origins of most alcohols and sodas was as medicines. Absinthe was tapeworm medication, gin was kidney medicine, sour cocktails were used for scurvy as the alcohol preserved the citrus juices on long voyages. Pharmacist like to use Chocolate for opioids because it masked the bitter flavor very well, 7up was originally a mood stabilizer since it was made with lithium water. Sarsaparilla was a kidney/inflammation/fever medicine. The list goes on and on. You should see my French coca wine video. It was the predecessor Coca Cola and It was loaded! ruclips.net/video/ZAPaacQiw4w/видео.htmlsi=U5yX-eEjVc1xkQ_J
My grandmother used to do that too and it makes sense. Coca leaf is used as an anti nausea medication in Bolivia and the other countries where the plant grows. Coca Cola still has coca leaf in it, but the cocaine is chemically removed. Thank you!
Yeah that’s about right. I mostly ignore those comments now. So I did get one comment a while back from someone who said they followed the recipe exactly and she gave it a 6 out of 10 on closeness to coke and I agreed. This was one of the first sodas I ever made and after a few years of experimenting I have the proportions spot on now. This recipe needed more flavor base. It was close but not close enough. I found that 1.5 ml of a 5% flavor solution (which is what the 7x is) for every 1kg of syrup is perfect. Also coca leaf extract is a HUGE part of cokes flavor. Now I have never tried it but others who have and know what it tastes like have told me that it is the primary flavor of coke. It has a slightly bitter herbal green tea like flavor and once you try it you can totally recognize it in coke. My recipe lacked that too for obvious reasons. But it tastes similar to Yerba mate and a little bay leaf. And this recipe lacked acid phosphate. I recently redid this recipe with what I know now and it’s almost exactly like coke. I made sure to add acid phosphate, increase the flavoring by 1/2 an ml, and add imitation coca leaf extract. I feel they must have reduced the coca leaf extract at some point in the past because this older recipe has a stronger coca leaf flavor than today’s but still, it’s almost exactly the same. If you reduced the coca leaf extract it is 100% the same. Here is the link to it. I hope this answer satisfied your curiosity. ruclips.net/video/frHJXfGnE3s/видео.htmlsi=Ggt4p331FkAO33k6
@@VintageAmericanCocktails yes thank you, that was a great feedback. I wouldn’t mind trying this out but I know the flavor extract mixture would probably take me 100 years to use all the way so I didn’t know if I wanted to put in the effort or not.
@@DrEnginerd1 I made this video 2 years ago and I still have that stuff sitting in a jar. It was fun to do but if you don’t plan on making 20,000 cokes or something like that then it’s not really practical.
I don’t remember but the important thing is that they are steam distilled. You don’t really want to drink chemically extracted oils. A lot of these can be found on baking websites for baked goods flavoring. Also there is no such thing as Food grade anymore and it’s for the most part a defunct term now. What you are looking for is what the fda calls GRAS (generally regarded as safe) and that has more to do with concentration of a specific item. For example drinking straight lemon essential oil is not safe but lemon oil diluted down to a comparable level as eating a normal lemon peel is. Same oil, different concentrations. Another example. All almonds have cyanide in them since they are part of the rosaceae family, but normal sweet store bought have such trace amounts that you couldn’t eat enough to be poisoned. And eating these almonds is generally regarded as safe. There are some varieties of almonds that have incredible amounts of cyanide in them and even a few can cause death. Eating these varieties is not generally regarded as safe. I went off the rails a bit here but I don’t remember the brands lol. Just make sure they are steam distilled and diluted to a normal level and it should be fine.
Hello, I have followed the video meticulously; I have therefore encountered few issues: -smell test had failed: comparing it with the actual Coca Cola, I can certainly smell the oils and it’s other ingredients but not that Coca-Cola characteristic smell -taste is also quite different, lovely drink but nowhere near a Coca-Cola. It definitely misses something, that something that is so characteristic and essential. I’d say 5.5 out of ten in similarity; definitely a citrous drink, but would love to actually replicate that sort of flavour, I’m fed up with chemicals etc and wish to drink safer options. What would you suggest me to do? Please take my comment as a constructive criticism, I am not in any way trying to mess things up :)
lol no thank you! And I agree. I made this video a bit ago and I may remake it. since I made this video I learned how to make imitation coca leaf extract and now that I know what it taste like its flavor is overwhelming in Coca Cola. That smell and taste you say is missing is coca leaf extract. I show how to make it in my French wine coca video. Thank you for trying this. It makes me really happy that you made it. I’m a bit embarrassed by this video because I’ve become much better at making old fashion sodas and also know how to make coca leaf extract so I see all the mistakes. Add the 5.5 oz coca leaf extract and it will be much closer to what you want to make. Again it’s in my French wine coca video and the ratio is 2/3 Yerba mate to 1/3 bay leaf. I recently made the 1876 U.S.A. centennial worlds fair root beer and it’s amazing. That is next on my list!
@@VintageAmericanCocktails ahah thanks for that :) I can see the extracts have been of course performed using alcohol; can I use some bay leaf and Yerba mate extracts directly? Also have read some threads about kola nut, for smell but not for flavour. Or is the extract just enough to get that flavour and smell?
@@VintageAmericanCocktails following up my previous comment, you can get decocanised coca leaf even in us, uk and Australia, maybe this helps you anyhow. Also, kola nut was replaced by other artificial ingredients to substitute the kola nut. I’ll be trying to combine the two and let you know :)
My full article on this cocktail recipe and its history can be found here: vintageamericancocktails.com/coca-cola-recipe/ The recipe this is from can be found on NPR here: www.thisamericanlife.org/427/original-recipe Neroli oil can be substituted with 1.5 tsp (7.5 mLs) orange blossom water added directly to the final syrup while the vanilla extract is added. Neroli oil is expensive and not easy to find, whereas orange blossom is cheap, easy to find, and has the same flavor.
But, neroli and orange blossom taste and smell totally different from each other. They're distilled differently - neroli is solvent and orange blossom is steam. One is not a substitute for the other - especially orange blossom water - the weakest version of all the odorant/flavorings. Neroli is lighter, sweeter, delicate and candy-like compared to the flowery, powdery orange blossom.
It is! That’s 95% of the comments I get on this video. No way in the world I will do that though. I don’t need the FBI knocking on my door. “So sir you filmed a video of yourself processing coca leaves and posted it to RUclips.” I know this isn’t real coca leaves but I made a new video making imitation coca leaf extract that tastes almost the exact same as a real normal coke you would buy at the store. ruclips.net/video/3nLz2cQ96sM/видео.htmlsi=vuEfcCG4IREyvng7
If you're ever in Peru, coca tea is legal. It's actually quite nice, with a bitter floral flavor and leaves a tingling and numb sensation on the tongue for a couple minutes after. Not really psychoactive in that kind of quantity though
yeah everyone thinks chewing a coca leaf and cocaine are the same but its not. It's too bad that people take things too far. Ruins it for the rest of us.
@@VintageAmericanCocktails In fairness, there is cocaine in there, so I get not allowing imports of large quantities :) But it'd be really nice to be able to taste that tea again without having to travel halfway around the world
“Now I didn’t just do things to do things. Why would I just go jumpin up and down and grindin’ my dirty feet into someone’s couch, I got more sense than that… yeah I remember grinding my feet into their couch.”
Thank you! I'm glad you liked it. These are essential oils, and they were very easy to buy online. As long as the oils are listed as 100% pure, they are generally safe to consume once diluted down to a reasonable level. The only concern would be if they were initially extracted by solvents, but every spice in this heats well, so I imagine they are all done by steam distillation. The only difficult one to buy is neroli oil (Orange flower oil) since most of it goes into perfume manufacturing. But orange flower water works well since it's the by-product of manufacturing pure oil and contains 0.5 to 1% neroli oil in it. The recipe calls for 0.5 mLs of pure oil into the flavor base, and in the end, the entire syrup only has 0.0036g of neroli oil. I did the math a while back, and that works out to 1.5 tsp (7.5 mLs) of orange flower water added directly to the final syrup (at the same time you add the vanilla extract) instead of adding the pure neroli oil to the flavor base. Enjoy!
That looks less complicated than I thought. How much can I reduce the sugar content in the syrup without reducing the shelf life? I love the taste of cola, but what always bothered me about cola was the excessive sweetness... I asked my local drug pusher about fluid cocaine extract and he just shaked his head about my wish. He can just get this white powder…
Lol I don’t know about the cocaine part or how street drugs equate to what they were using back then but many old pharmacy books from the 1800s have these recipes and they freely available on google books. books.google.com/books?id=WxwaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA27&dq=fluid+extract+of+cocaine&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&ovdme=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjeh4f7iM_9AhV3hu4BHc6BDmQQ6wF6BAgCEAU#v=onepage&q=cocaine&f=false As far as the sugar part goes try 1.8 lbs of sugar instead of 2.4. This should make for 30g of sugar per drink instead of 40g. Hope that helps!
That’s how I feel. If I want healthy I’ll just drink water, but a coke every now and then is nice. Thats why I made this. Npr published the original recipe after someone found the inventors notebook in someone’s attic. I was curious to make it and see what it tasted like and you know what? It tastes exactly like Mexican coke. The flavor hasn’t changed. I left it out of this video for obvious reasons but coca leaf extract is a big part of cokes flavor and makes up 7% of the syrup.
It’s really cool how it tastes exactly like coke. If I were going to make this regularly and not just for a video I would substitute the neroli for 1 tbsp of orange flower water added directly to the syrup like the vanilla extract is. The neroli is wildly expensive.
This recipe taste just like a regular cola. Honestly this recipe taste more like Pepsi than coke. Pepsi is the coke recipe without the coca leaf extract. digital.lib.ecu.edu/36323 I recently learned how to make an imitation coca leaf extract using Yerba mate and bay leaf that apparently taste just like it. and now that I know what coca leaf taste like the flavor is obvious to me when I drink a coke. It has a sweet and slightly bitter green herbal leaf flavor. Pepsi uses petit grain oil to make up for the lack of coca leaf and another cola recipe I learned uses toasted barley extract for that bitterness. The alcohol emulsion is a common background flavor to all colas, it’s the bitter/sweet herbal flavors added to the syrups that seem to be the distinction between different manufacturers.
@@VintageAmericanCocktails I am from China, I clearly remember in 80's, Pepsi & Coke drinks totally different, but now it they are much much more the same, I miss the 80's Pepsi, it has clear flavor of herbs like Chinese herb medicine, but I can not tell what brings those flavor, thanks very much for the video!!!!
Try using brown sugar, just extracts and herbs and some coca instead of coffein(in peru you can do it) and this is the original and best taste I assume.
Make it sound cool. This is not the current recipe but it’s very very close and tastes very similar to coke. I’m sure there are only a few who know the EXACT current recipe but this original 1880s recipe gives a good idea of how the present day one is made.
Are there healthier substitutes to add to your syrup? Is it possible a little bit of baking soda would be a healthy ingredient? If so how much would you add to a liter of soda?
Both liquid and powder will give you the same results but powdered is cheaper. The issue with not using alcohol in this particular recipe is the amount of oil ultimately used is very tiny for this much syrup. Like fractions of a drop. You can’t proportion out the oil mix if you uses gum Arabic so gum only works on a large scale for gallons and gallons of syrup.
i wanted to make this recipe, but I struggled to get the cocaine... long story short, I have scored off some hooker in the cross, told her I wanted it to make coke, she was confused and said "but it is coke"... I told her it was over her head, then she said "did you say you want head", to which I replied no just the coke thanks... after that moment I got arrested for solicitation of a hooker and possession of cocaine... when interviewed they asked "cocaine and hookers hey, in for a good night were you, what have you learned from this?" to which i replied " just trying to make coke is all, thats all i want to do is make good old fashioned coke"...to which they replied "are you admitting to manufacturing cocaine"... at this point i asked for a lawyer, after i told the lawyer the story of wanting to make real coke after watching your video, the lawyer looked at me and said "next time just drink a red bull, red bull will give you wings, coke wont"...if you believed any of this story, you deserve to get arrested like i did...
You’re welcome! If you find the cola flavor is too light just add a little bit more of the flavoring. I thought it was spot on but my wife felt it needed more flavoring. Glad you liked it.
@@mariejones1415 It's easy and cheap to find 100% pure natural oils for all ingredients except for the neroli. Pure neroli is very expensive, but you could substitute 1.5 tsp of orange blossom water into the final syrup. Orange blossom water usually has 10 - 15 drops of neroli oil per liter; this recipe makes 24 drinks, so each drink only has around .0036 g of neroli oil in the end. If you add 1.5 tsp (7.5 mLs) of orange blossom water directly to the final syrup, just like the vanilla extract is added, then you should end up with around .0045 g of neroli oil per drink. Orange blossom water is easy to get online, food grade, and only a few bucks. Glad you asked. I will update my site and pinned comment to include this.
I got mine online. I don’t know if there really is a substitute for coriander oil it’s a unique flavor, but if you want you could make coriander extract by soaking ground coriander seeds in unflavored alcohol. Something strong like 75% or 95% alcohol is best but a 40% vodka works too. Extracts tend to be 3 or 5% oil but who knows for sure. If you end up making a homemade coriander extract, add it directly to the syrup like the vanilla extract. I don’t know an exact amount so it would just need to be added to taste. Just start small and add more if necessary. Good luck!
What about kola nuts or cola nuts? I heard that the name came from 2 of the ingredients - Coca leaf extract and Kola (Cola) nut extract for caffeine. If so why is kola nut not mentoned in the "original recipie"!? BOTH of those were added for the stimulants in them...but they *had* to add some flavor(s) to the final product, even if very subtle. Plus wouldn't cocaine, even the *miniscule* amount in the leaf extract, make your tongue and mouth a *wee* bit numb!?
Oddly there was no kola nut in the original coca-cola but the predecessor to coca-cola, his french coca wine, did have kola nut. personally i think coke smells like kola nut, but who knows, maybe it was just a fun alliteration. I learned after making this video how to make imitation coca leaf extract and now that i know what it tastes like the flavor of it is overwhelming in coke. It's actually very good. It has a sweet green herbal leafy flavor. so the coca extract does add a significant flavor to the final product. the coca stimulant in coca leaf is not cocaine until it is chemically processed and refined. In bolivia they typically add a little wood ash when chewing to break down and unfold the chemicals in coca into it's more powerful mouth numbing form. A simple ethanol extracted coca leaf acts as a mild stimulant and shouldn't numb the mouth. Its nowhere near as strong as cocaine. Great question!
How would I approach adding Gum Arabic as a stabilizer into the syrup system? Just curious how much I should put to increase the stability of the system
Excellent question! Just enough to moisten it with the exact amount of oil that will go in the syrup. It’s really hard to use gum Arabic on a small scale like this because you cant proportion it out like you can the alcohol emulsion. A syrup of this size only needs fractions of a drop of the oils which is why it’s diluted in 8oz of alcohol. The oils for cola and gum Arabic require a large scale syrup production. In my lemon soda video I show how to do gum Arabic. The technique is to grind and press the oils into dry gum Arabic to bind the oils to particles of the gum. So when the gum blends in it the oils stay stuck to it. I’ve tried other emulsifiers and stabilizers and gum arabic is the only one that this worked with.
@@VintageAmericanCocktails Thanks for the quick reply! How much quantity would you recommend for a starting point? I'm a food science student and may do a project on this for my capstone, so any recommendations would really help me out. Great video by the way!
@@VintageAmericanCocktails In total, there are 90 drops of oils added to the flavoring base. What's a good starting point for Gum arabic amount for this? Approximately how much did you use in the lemon soda video (was very helpful too!). Sorry to keep bugging you about it, but it would really help me out.
@@scorpionbird88 no worries. That’s 4.5 ml of oil so anything double that would work. Try a tablespoon (10g-ish of dry powder I think) if it seems too wet add a little more. While you want to be precise with the amount of oil, it’s not too important if there is more or less gum Arabic. Gum Arabic doesn’t affect the final product much until it’s 10-20% of the total volume, which if you are just using it to moisten oil you will get nowhere near.
@@VintageAmericanCocktails Awesome! So would I just add the compound gum directly into the syrup? Would I need to use any special mixing or heating for it to fully homogenize?
It kind of does. The finished syrups flavor would last maybe 6 months but it wouldn’t even make it that long. the syrup itself will only last maybe 2-3 weeks in the refrigerator. On the other hand, The 7x Coca-Cola flavor base last almost indefinitely. I made this over a year ago and I still have some left and it still tastes the same.
I was curious what the modern cola flavours are. I reduced some to a syrup so I could identify what the taste is. It's extremely specific. The front of the tongue gets caramel with a subtle cinnamon. The main flavour hits the central palette, it's pineapple butterscotch. After that the flavours vanish, no aftertaste at all (probably so you go back for another sip). I know the recipe is different around the world, I tasted it in Ireland.
You are absolutely right and I totally got that wrong in this video. This is one of the first soda videos I ever made and I have learned a ton about soda making in the last few years. My acid game has significantly improved. Here is my updated version of coke where I make sure to use acid phosphate. Great job catching that! ruclips.net/video/3nLz2cQ96sM/видео.html
Not Just Kidding. The original recipe did have cocaine in the original mix. I wish I could go back in time and sample the real original. The cocaine and all. It probably gave your mouth a numb feeling.
Oh yeah. I bet a lot of people have that same wish. I provided the correct amount of coca leaf extract that was added in the video but I live in the United States so no way I’m going to add that. Get the DEA knocking on my door.
Big heat proof glass measuring cup, cheap scale to weigh the ingredients, pipettes to measure the tiny ingredients, spoon to stir with. Thats all I can think of as far as tools go.
It tastes very similar. In this video I didn’t add coca leaf extract but It’s the primary flavor in coke in my opinion. coca leaf extract has a green bitter herb flavor similar to green tea. If I were to add that, it would taste exactly like coke.
If you gaze long into an knot, the knot also gazes into you. jk. You're the second person to say that. I'm going to have to rewatch this video to see what is so off with that knot.
oh man I haven't done that before but try this. to sub 1.1 kg (3.25 cups) of sugar do: • 6.5 tbsp of stevia powder • 3 tbsp of monk fruit (check bags for convertions as monk fruit is usually blended since it is SOOO sweet) • 2.2 cups of agave • coconut sugar should be a direct replacement for regular sugar. I hope that helps. Im very unfamiliar with artificial sweeteners or even what is on the market these days.
That’s a really good point and I will clarify that in any videos going forward. I do use essential oils but they need to be steam distilled. Some are produced using solvents and over a period of time that can be pretty harmful to consume. I’ll specify to only use steam distilled oils. Acetone was a popular solvent to use in the 1800s and that’s why many pharmacists died of stomach cancer back then. The FDA considers some essential oils as GRAS (generally regarded as safe) as long as they are not produced with solvents and diluted to a concentration one could find in nature. Thank you for pointing that out!
Hello, when was this recipe stopped and replaced with the current formula that we drink today? Why did the original recipe not continue to the present day, because it seems to be a natural recipe, and better than the current formula that is full of flavours? I hope for a response. Thank you.
I don't know when it changed. I feel the biggest change to the recipe has been using artificial sweeteners because this recipe tastes very similar to a Mexican Coke. More crisp and refreshing than a normal store-bought Coke. I enjoy cokes directly out of the soda machine and glass bottle cokes, but the normal plastic bottle ones just taste flat to me. I agree too that these are fairly natural. The caramel coloring could be left out but the rest is normal stuff. Natural oils, emulsified in alcohol, are added to a syrup and mixed with carbonated water.
What is the budget of this formula in relatively small industrial batch. Say, weekly batch for a family of four, consuming one 12 oz soda a day person.
Of course! This was a super fun one to make and I learned a ton about using oils for flavor. I go into more information on my website which I think I have pinned in the comments. Glad you liked it! Enjoy!
Not really. The oils need something to help them emulsify in the syrup since they won’t mix on their own. You could try using glycerin since it is technically an alcohol and will blend the oils with water, but it is not ethanol so it can be used for “alcohol free” consumables. Large scale production will use gum arabic but you can’t divide it into smaller amounts. Since you are not making 100s of gallons of syrup, glycerin and ethanol are the only real viable options.
I was asked this on my website recently so I will copy-paste the answer I gave. Ah, a very good and simple question with a not very clear or simple answer. The problem is there is no one perfect supplier. There are many good essential oil suppliers but there are some crumby ones, and there are some cheap ones and some expensive ones. Fortunately, if an oil says it’s steam distilled or cold pressed and undiluted, then it probably is and I wouldn’t worry too much about it. Most oils are not too expensive so a bottle of cold-pressed lemon oil for 15-25 bucks is fine and most likely very high quality. Some though are very expensive. A 10 ml bottle of neroli or rose will never be less than 100 - 150 dollars. If you find a bottle of Neroli for less than that, it is for sure cut with other oils, but it will most likely say it is cut with other oils. In addition, there is no regulatory body overseeing essential oils. There are groups, such as the Essential Oil University, that will perform GCMS testing on oils and certify an oil’s level of purity, but submitting to groups like this is voluntary. The 2 main things to look for when buying oils are: 1). Only use cold press or steam-distilled oils. 2). Only use 100% pure oils. Never use oils cut with other oils. If you want to cover yourself find manufacturers that provide their GCMS oil test results. companies like Eden’s Garden and others do this, but those oils tend to come at a premium. If something seems too good to be true, it probably is. Lime or lemon oil for 15- 20 bucks is reasonable, but rose oil for 15-20 bucks? Impossible. You can find these oils online and 10-30 ml of pure essential oil will last you a long, long time. 10ml of an oil can fully flavor almost 2000 drinks. That’s over 5 years if you make 1 soda a day. Just to put the cost into perspective. By making your own syrups and sodas think of all the preservatives you are avoiding, but if buying oil stuff is a bit worrisome you can also make a homemade extract with the actual spices and peels. The essence recipes are 5% solutions but a standard extract will be 0.5%. just 10x each flavor for an extract replacing an essence. Instead of 0.5ml, use 5ml. just soak some nutmeg or lemon peels in vodka, add a teaspoon of each infusion, and call it a day. I hope this helps. Again it’s not a simple question to answer.
@@VintageAmericanCocktails oh, your using essential oils. Yeah neroli is expensive. I use that to make cologne and man, its a pretty penny for sure. My wife runs a natural cosmetics and soap shop. She makes things from scratch so she uses oils from butterfly express, now, and some other places. Sometimes she distills her own for fun hahaha
@@LT72884 oh that’s so cool. I thought about buying a steam distiller to make some of my own but I’m not sure how much I would actually use it. I also thought about getting a vacuum chamber for cold evaporating juices and making my own concentrates. I’m surprised I haven’t had the fbi knocking on my door yet. I also do a lot of gardening so I’ll buy pure nitrogen and other fertilizers. “ no officer, just making old fashioned sodas and growing my plants.” lol I’ll check out butterfly express too. Thank you!
@@VintageAmericanCocktails yeah i buy fertilizer for making rocket fuel as i am an aerospace engineer hahaha, so i know the feeling of the feds lurking haha. My wifes distillery is nothing more than a 3 gallon bucket with about 10 feet of copper tubing in a coil, hooked to a pressure cooker with a small piece of vinyl tube haha. To expensive to buy one for as little as we need it. I grew up gardening with my dad and mom i love it
Angelo Mariani 1863 invented the first Coca-Cola. He was from the island of Corsica. He did fortune in US by selling it in its first version including coca leafs.
That was the Pepsi 1893 editions. Those were pretty good. Yeah it’s similar to those. I made a Pepsi 1893 video too. ruclips.net/video/dpEiVIjm6Po/видео.htmlsi=JPeouxngrIAHNSI1
Lol I wanted to make sure I at least provided the amount. If you watch my French wine coca video I show how to make imitation coca leaf extract that taste just like it.
Unfortunately not really. Nowadays coke uses gum Arabic and blends the oils with the dry powder but they dump that powder into a gigantic 55 gallon mixing tank. The problem with using gum powder on a small scale is you can’t proportion it out like you can the alcohol oil mixture. Maybe try vegetable glycerin? That may function the same as ethanol.
I think I mention it in the video but the recipe at this volume would have 160 milliliters of coca leaf extract in it, but I can’t add that in the video lol. Coca is illegal where I live so I can’t get that ingredient. Oddly the original Coca Cola recipe has no kola nut extract in it. I personally think raw kola nuts smell like Coca Cola so maybe that’s where it gets it’s name from, but who knows. The predecessor to Coca Cola, French coca wine, did have kola nut extract in it though.
@@VintageAmericanCocktails I live in Chile, and here Coca leaves are rather easy to obtain and not illegal. I didn’t know Coca Cola had a French ancestor 😀
@@gurusansarsinghkhalsa7104 I was thinking about making a French coca wine video. I got all the ingredients except for the coca, but I may try to do a similar tasting extract to substitute for it. People I know who have chewed it say it taste like a mix of Yerba mate and bay leaf. Do you think that is accurate?
@@VintageAmericanCocktails You could go on vacation where it's legal and make your video. Using real leaf will make your video one-of-a-kind and you will also get to vacation. That is if RUclips will allow such content.
You’re right! I made an updated version of this video with acid phosphate and imitation coca leaf extract. Good catch! Here is the updated video. ruclips.net/video/3nLz2cQ96sM/видео.html
Oh I don’t know if you would want to see that, not a pretty sight, but it tastes almost exactly like coke. It just lacks the coca leaf flavor which is a sweet herbal green leaf flavor. I made an updated version of this video where I make imitation coca leaf extract and that one is spot on.
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Wheres the other white powder
I snorted it all. Jk
Seriously dude? There was no white powder in there. It was a syrup. What do you want everybody to draw you a picture on how it really was?
@@timmytee5335 i want my cocaine
Miami 🤣
We don’t talk about that
You had me with the cocaine part. I was thinking I'd have to call some old high school friends
now what am i supposed to with the unused ingredients?
They actually used coca leaf. Not actual cocaine. They still do technically, but it's extracted for "medical purposes".
Love the way u made it ,with clear instructions
Thank you. My goal was to present the video in a way that made it easy for others to replicate.
My grandpa was addicted to the original recipe! 😵💫😵💫😵💫
the amount of sugar is staggering!
Right. Can you imagine just drinking that whole pitcher of syrup straight? That would be wild!
Sugars a neurotoxin
@@asmrstormymoonthats why theres citric acid To keep you from puking cause its so sweet
@@ragheadand420roll we need some better alternatives. Its not really a drink so much as a spiritual pesticide that calcifies people's 3rd eye
Absolutely 💯
Coca-Cola’s history has been well-documented. The drink was invented in 1885 by John Pemberton, a pharmacist from Atlanta, Georgia, who made the original formula in his backyard. Pemberton’s recipe contained cocaine in the form of an extract of the coca leaf, which inspired the “Coca” part of the beverage’s name. The “Cola” comes from the kola nut (which contains caffeine, another stimulant).
And before becoming Coca-Cola, that beverage was called Pemberton's French Wine Coca.
@@hermes3386it was straight up wine + actual cocaine before he had that coca-cola recipe
@@rickrollrizal No, it was already sort of a cocktail. Let's read the full recipe on the "Vintage American Cocktails" official site, paper named "French Wine Coca - Predacesor to Coca-Cola" (June 28, 2023). There you will find two photos of Pemberton's work, one for the French Wine and one for the Coke. Have fun, my friend !
All that stimulation has destroyed my teeth and given me diabetes
Waltz of the Blue Danube is playing.
You know how Stairway To Heaven is overplayed? Blue Danube too.
@@rickwilliams967 Nowdays it reeks of sewage.
Franklin Garrett the historian for CocaCola was a high school friend of my mother and father and used to visit our house often. He and my father called coke "dope" because of the cocaine content it once had. As I remember it did contain kola nuts. The Coke that we drank in the 1950's tasted nothing like the Coke of today. It was refreshing and actually made you feel better. The syrup was sold by druggists as medicine for sick babies.
The taste of Coke changed in the early 80s. It used to be so very good! I can't drink it now.
I think coca cola has you on a watch list now
Well they better not be watching me during 4-5. That’s Willie time!
Now I understand why my Granny said it tastes like medicine….because it once was.
Isn’t it amazing. The origins of most alcohols and sodas was as medicines. Absinthe was tapeworm medication, gin was kidney medicine, sour cocktails were used for scurvy as the alcohol preserved the citrus juices on long voyages. Pharmacist like to use Chocolate for opioids because it masked the bitter flavor very well, 7up was originally a mood stabilizer since it was made with lithium water. Sarsaparilla was a kidney/inflammation/fever medicine. The list goes on and on. You should see my French coca wine video. It was the predecessor Coca Cola and It was loaded!
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Such a beautiful, perfect video, of rare info.❤🎉
This is great, thank you! l would love to see a video like this for Dr Pepper. 😊
I do want to make Dr. pepper. I’ve been doing research on it but it’s a tough one. As soon as I figure it out I will make a video of it
@@VintageAmericanCocktails Looking forward to it. Thank you!!
Yuck! 🤮No thanks.
@@kurmet24You do you, I quite like it
Forrest Gump has entered the chat.
Must cost an fortune for all the different small ingredients
Coke syrup used to be common "medicine" for upset tummies. I gave it to my kids. Always worked.
My grandmother used to do that too and it makes sense. Coca leaf is used as an anti nausea medication in Bolivia and the other countries where the plant grows. Coca Cola still has coca leaf in it, but the cocaine is chemically removed. Thank you!
Came to the comments section see if anyone had tried this and all I see are bad jokes about cocaine
Yeah that’s about right. I mostly ignore those comments now. So I did get one comment a while back from someone who said they followed the recipe exactly and she gave it a 6 out of 10 on closeness to coke and I agreed. This was one of the first sodas I ever made and after a few years of experimenting I have the proportions spot on now. This recipe needed more flavor base. It was close but not close enough. I found that 1.5 ml of a 5% flavor solution (which is what the 7x is) for every 1kg of syrup is perfect. Also coca leaf extract is a HUGE part of cokes flavor. Now I have never tried it but others who have and know what it tastes like have told me that it is the primary flavor of coke. It has a slightly bitter herbal green tea like flavor and once you try it you can totally recognize it in coke. My recipe lacked that too for obvious reasons. But it tastes similar to Yerba mate and a little bay leaf. And this recipe lacked acid phosphate. I recently redid this recipe with what I know now and it’s almost exactly like coke. I made sure to add acid phosphate, increase the flavoring by 1/2 an ml, and add imitation coca leaf extract. I feel they must have reduced the coca leaf extract at some point in the past because this older recipe has a stronger coca leaf flavor than today’s but still, it’s almost exactly the same. If you reduced the coca leaf extract it is 100% the same. Here is the link to it. I hope this answer satisfied your curiosity.
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@@VintageAmericanCocktails yes thank you, that was a great feedback. I wouldn’t mind trying this out but I know the flavor extract mixture would probably take me 100 years to use all the way so I didn’t know if I wanted to put in the effort or not.
@@DrEnginerd1 I made this video 2 years ago and I still have that stuff sitting in a jar. It was fun to do but if you don’t plan on making 20,000 cokes or something like that then it’s not really practical.
You had me at 2:06, you lost me at 2:09
Bro we need the original way fr
yeah fr fr i need cocain in my coca cola its kinda boring without it
heres an idea, keep the sugar and the cocain, boom. successful drink
@@N3WC0M3R5 facts tbh 🤦♂
What brands of oils did you use for the flavor?
I don’t remember but the important thing is that they are steam distilled. You don’t really want to drink chemically extracted oils. A lot of these can be found on baking websites for baked goods flavoring. Also there is no such thing as Food grade anymore and it’s for the most part a defunct term now. What you are looking for is what the fda calls GRAS (generally regarded as safe) and that has more to do with concentration of a specific item. For example drinking straight lemon essential oil is not safe but lemon oil diluted down to a comparable level as eating a normal lemon peel is. Same oil, different concentrations. Another example. All almonds have cyanide in them since they are part of the rosaceae family, but normal sweet store bought have such trace amounts that you couldn’t eat enough to be poisoned. And eating these almonds is generally regarded as safe. There are some varieties of almonds that have incredible amounts of cyanide in them and even a few can cause death. Eating these varieties is not generally regarded as safe. I went off the rails a bit here but I don’t remember the brands lol. Just make sure they are steam distilled and diluted to a normal level and it should be fine.
I very rarely have a sensitive stomach, but a very large helping of marcona almonds made me sick @VintageAmericanCocktails
Hello, I have followed the video meticulously; I have therefore encountered few issues:
-smell test had failed: comparing it with the actual Coca Cola, I can certainly smell the oils and it’s other ingredients but not that Coca-Cola characteristic smell
-taste is also quite different, lovely drink but nowhere near a Coca-Cola.
It definitely misses something, that something that is so characteristic and essential.
I’d say 5.5 out of ten in similarity; definitely a citrous drink, but would love to actually replicate that sort of flavour, I’m fed up with chemicals etc and wish to drink safer options.
What would you suggest me to do? Please take my comment as a constructive criticism, I am not in any way trying to mess things up :)
lol no thank you! And I agree. I made this video a bit ago and I may remake it. since I made this video I learned how to make imitation coca leaf extract and now that I know what it taste like its flavor is overwhelming in Coca Cola. That smell and taste you say is missing is coca leaf extract. I show how to make it in my French wine coca video.
Thank you for trying this. It makes me really happy that you made it. I’m a bit embarrassed by this video because I’ve become much better at making old fashion sodas and also know how to make coca leaf extract so I see all the mistakes. Add the 5.5 oz coca leaf extract and it will be much closer to what you want to make. Again it’s in my French wine coca video and the ratio is 2/3 Yerba mate to 1/3 bay leaf. I recently made the 1876 U.S.A. centennial worlds fair root beer and it’s amazing. That is next on my list!
@@VintageAmericanCocktails ahah thanks for that :) I can see the extracts have been of course performed using alcohol; can I use some bay leaf and Yerba mate extracts directly? Also have read some threads about kola nut, for smell but not for flavour. Or is the extract just enough to get that flavour and smell?
@@VintageAmericanCocktails following up my previous comment, you can get decocanised coca leaf even in us, uk and Australia, maybe this helps you anyhow. Also, kola nut was replaced by other artificial ingredients to substitute the kola nut. I’ll be trying to combine the two and let you know :)
This is crazy awesome .
@@Simon_Radenthis is like taking a peek behind the Walls of area 51 😅
My full article on this cocktail recipe and its history can be found here: vintageamericancocktails.com/coca-cola-recipe/
The recipe this is from can be found on NPR here: www.thisamericanlife.org/427/original-recipe
Neroli oil can be substituted with 1.5 tsp (7.5 mLs) orange blossom water added directly to the final syrup while the vanilla extract is added. Neroli oil is expensive and not easy to find, whereas orange blossom is cheap, easy to find, and has the same flavor.
But, neroli and orange blossom taste and smell totally different from each other. They're distilled differently - neroli is solvent and orange blossom is steam. One is not a substitute for the other - especially orange blossom water - the weakest version of all the odorant/flavorings. Neroli is lighter, sweeter, delicate and candy-like compared to the flowery, powdery orange blossom.
great video! is there a substitute for alcohol for those who don't consume it?
Doterra sells Neroli oil.
I think there is a general consensus that the whole internet wants to see the REAL recipe 😂
It is! That’s 95% of the comments I get on this video. No way in the world I will do that though. I don’t need the FBI knocking on my door. “So sir you filmed a video of yourself processing coca leaves and posted it to RUclips.” I know this isn’t real coca leaves but I made a new video making imitation coca leaf extract that tastes almost the exact same as a real normal coke you would buy at the store.
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If you're ever in Peru, coca tea is legal. It's actually quite nice, with a bitter floral flavor and leaves a tingling and numb sensation on the tongue for a couple minutes after. Not really psychoactive in that kind of quantity though
yeah everyone thinks chewing a coca leaf and cocaine are the same but its not. It's too bad that people take things too far. Ruins it for the rest of us.
@@VintageAmericanCocktails In fairness, there is cocaine in there, so I get not allowing imports of large quantities :) But it'd be really nice to be able to taste that tea again without having to travel halfway around the world
Every now and then when I take a slug of Coca Cola when my palette is clear I can detect the nutmeg.
I never would have guessed but now that I know what’s in it I can taste it.
Coca Cola is a hell of a drink
“Now I didn’t just do things to do things. Why would I just go jumpin up and down and grindin’ my dirty feet into someone’s couch, I got more sense than that… yeah I remember grinding my feet into their couch.”
@@VintageAmericanCocktails❤and excellent vid
Rick James!
Hi! Thanks so much for this video! Where did you get all of the oils from? Are they cooking/flavoring oils or purified essentials oils?
Thank you! I'm glad you liked it. These are essential oils, and they were very easy to buy online. As long as the oils are listed as 100% pure, they are generally safe to consume once diluted down to a reasonable level. The only concern would be if they were initially extracted by solvents, but every spice in this heats well, so I imagine they are all done by steam distillation. The only difficult one to buy is neroli oil (Orange flower oil) since most of it goes into perfume manufacturing. But orange flower water works well since it's the by-product of manufacturing pure oil and contains 0.5 to 1% neroli oil in it. The recipe calls for 0.5 mLs of pure oil into the flavor base, and in the end, the entire syrup only has 0.0036g of neroli oil. I did the math a while back, and that works out to 1.5 tsp (7.5 mLs) of orange flower water added directly to the final syrup (at the same time you add the vanilla extract) instead of adding the pure neroli oil to the flavor base. Enjoy!
@@VintageAmericanCocktails thank you so much for your response! Excited to try this out!!
That looks less complicated than I thought.
How much can I reduce the sugar content in the syrup without reducing the shelf life? I love the taste of cola, but what always bothered me about cola was the excessive sweetness...
I asked my local drug pusher about fluid cocaine extract and he just shaked his head about my wish. He can just get this white powder…
Lol I don’t know about the cocaine part or how street drugs equate to what they were using back then but many old pharmacy books from the 1800s have these recipes and they freely available on google books. books.google.com/books?id=WxwaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA27&dq=fluid+extract+of+cocaine&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&ovdme=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjeh4f7iM_9AhV3hu4BHc6BDmQQ6wF6BAgCEAU#v=onepage&q=cocaine&f=false
As far as the sugar part goes try 1.8 lbs of sugar instead of 2.4. This should make for 30g of sugar per drink instead of 40g. Hope that helps!
@@VintageAmericanCocktails Sounds good. Will skip the cocain part anyway… ;)
I don’t really know why I’m here, but: hey! Very interesting video and chill vibes instructions.
Nicely done. Now, where’s my Coke?
I don’t know what I’m doing or where I am most of the time, so join the club. Glad you liked it! Here you go🥤
Epic. I know it is not very healthy, but i like it.
I would love to taste the original.
That’s how I feel. If I want healthy I’ll just drink water, but a coke every now and then is nice.
Thats why I made this. Npr published the original recipe after someone found the inventors notebook in someone’s attic. I was curious to make it and see what it tasted like and you know what? It tastes exactly like Mexican coke. The flavor hasn’t changed. I left it out of this video for obvious reasons but coca leaf extract is a big part of cokes flavor and makes up 7% of the syrup.
Yeah, I`m all set. You drink it.
Such a great way to make your own coke ❤❤❤❤
It’s really cool how it tastes exactly like coke. If I were going to make this regularly and not just for a video I would substitute the neroli for 1 tbsp of orange flower water added directly to the syrup like the vanilla extract is. The neroli is wildly expensive.
can you make another tutorial but this time with actual cocain pls pls
yes !
Omg, it's so amazing. it tests exactly like Coke. I will never buy coke again. Thank you for the recipe.
Ah, the coriander, the caramel, the caffeine… the cocaine!!!
Excellent video; thank you for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it
I am looking for your recipe over 5 years
I’m glad I could help you!
How similar is the taste to a cola? Thinking of making the alcohol emulsion and using an artificial sweetener instead of sugar.
This recipe taste just like a regular cola. Honestly this recipe taste more like Pepsi than coke. Pepsi is the coke recipe without the coca leaf extract.
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I recently learned how to make an imitation coca leaf extract using Yerba mate and bay leaf that apparently taste just like it. and now that I know what coca leaf taste like the flavor is obvious to me when I drink a coke. It has a sweet and slightly bitter green herbal leaf flavor. Pepsi uses petit grain oil to make up for the lack of coca leaf and another cola recipe I learned uses toasted barley extract for that bitterness. The alcohol emulsion is a common background flavor to all colas, it’s the bitter/sweet herbal flavors added to the syrups that seem to be the distinction between different manufacturers.
Very interesting, thanks for the reply!! @@VintageAmericanCocktails
@@nalec of course! In my French wine Coca video I show how to make the imitation Coca leaf extract.
Awesome, I'll be checking that out this evening. @@VintageAmericanCocktails
@@VintageAmericanCocktails I am from China, I clearly remember in 80's, Pepsi & Coke drinks totally different, but now it they are much much more the same, I miss the 80's Pepsi, it has clear flavor of herbs like Chinese herb medicine, but I can not tell what brings those flavor, thanks very much for the video!!!!
Try using brown sugar, just extracts and herbs and some coca instead of coffein(in peru you can do it) and this is the original and best taste I assume.
I’m sure it is. I wish it was easier to make the syrup in smaller volumes to experiment with slightly different ingredients.
if the receipt is public why people say coke receipt is in a secret vault that no one can break ?
Make it sound cool. This is not the current recipe but it’s very very close and tastes very similar to coke. I’m sure there are only a few who know the EXACT current recipe but this original 1880s recipe gives a good idea of how the present day one is made.
Because perhaps the real "secret vault" is the absolutely ridiculous, meticulous patience, ingredients and time that this all takes to make👀
"There is no secret ingredient. To make something special, you have to believe it is special." - Kungfu Panda 🐼
I definitely read it somewhere that people believe that lavender might be the secret ingredient in Coke.
Are there healthier substitutes to add to your syrup? Is it possible a little bit of baking soda would be a healthy ingredient? If so how much would you add to a liter of soda?
Allulose is a healthy sugar it doesn't store in your body like other sugars do.
Ok, now uve cracked the secret recipe, u must be at least a multi-millionare.
lol, I wish. This is a hobby I have put more money into than I have got out of it.
Really enjoyed the video. Would love to try it with my seltzer maker and see how close it is. I have a coke problem 😂
should i use powder or liquid gum arabic instead of alcohol
Both liquid and powder will give you the same results but powdered is cheaper. The issue with not using alcohol in this particular recipe is the amount of oil ultimately used is very tiny for this much syrup. Like fractions of a drop. You can’t proportion out the oil mix if you uses gum Arabic so gum only works on a large scale for gallons and gallons of syrup.
@@VintageAmericanCocktails thank you for the reply. Can I use club soda for soda water?
i wanted to make this recipe, but I struggled to get the cocaine... long story short, I have scored off some hooker in the cross, told her I wanted it to make coke, she was confused and said "but it is coke"... I told her it was over her head, then she said "did you say you want head", to which I replied no just the coke thanks... after that moment I got arrested for solicitation of a hooker and possession of cocaine... when interviewed they asked "cocaine and hookers hey, in for a good night were you, what have you learned from this?" to which i replied " just trying to make coke is all, thats all i want to do is make good old fashioned coke"...to which they replied "are you admitting to manufacturing cocaine"... at this point i asked for a lawyer, after i told the lawyer the story of wanting to make real coke after watching your video, the lawyer looked at me and said "next time just drink a red bull, red bull will give you wings, coke wont"...if you believed any of this story, you deserve to get arrested like i did...
That exact thing happened to me last week.
Hehehehehe 😂
This exact thing happened to me last week
That's a masterpiece 😂 You have quite the imagination 👍🏻🧠
Finally! I feel like I can make cola! Absolutely fantastic video…thank you!
You’re welcome! If you find the cola flavor is too light just add a little bit more of the flavoring. I thought it was spot on but my wife felt it needed more flavoring. Glad you liked it.
Ok. As for the oils, I assume I have to look for “food grade.”?
@@mariejones1415 It's easy and cheap to find 100% pure natural oils for all ingredients except for the neroli. Pure neroli is very expensive, but you could substitute 1.5 tsp of orange blossom water into the final syrup. Orange blossom water usually has 10 - 15 drops of neroli oil per liter; this recipe makes 24 drinks, so each drink only has around .0036 g of neroli oil in the end. If you add 1.5 tsp (7.5 mLs) of orange blossom water directly to the final syrup, just like the vanilla extract is added, then you should end up with around .0045 g of neroli oil per drink. Orange blossom water is easy to get online, food grade, and only a few bucks. Glad you asked. I will update my site and pinned comment to include this.
Where to find coriander oil, cannot find here in malaysia, can I substitute coriander oil with other stuff?
I got mine online. I don’t know if there really is a substitute for coriander oil it’s a unique flavor, but if you want you could make coriander extract by soaking ground coriander seeds in unflavored alcohol. Something strong like 75% or 95% alcohol is best but a 40% vodka works too.
Extracts tend to be 3 or 5% oil but who knows for sure. If you end up making a homemade coriander extract, add it directly to the syrup like the vanilla extract. I don’t know an exact amount so it would just need to be added to taste. Just start small and add more if necessary. Good luck!
I think citric acid is only for preserving, not taste
Can you substitute allulose with this?
absolutely. It's a little less sweet than sugar, but that might be a good thing.
What about kola nuts or cola nuts? I heard that the name came from 2 of the ingredients - Coca leaf extract and Kola (Cola) nut extract for caffeine. If so why is kola nut not mentoned in the "original recipie"!?
BOTH of those were added for the stimulants in them...but they *had* to add some flavor(s) to the final product, even if very subtle.
Plus wouldn't cocaine, even the *miniscule* amount in the leaf extract, make your tongue and mouth a *wee* bit numb!?
Oddly there was no kola nut in the original coca-cola but the predecessor to coca-cola, his french coca wine, did have kola nut. personally i think coke smells like kola nut, but who knows, maybe it was just a fun alliteration.
I learned after making this video how to make imitation coca leaf extract and now that i know what it tastes like the flavor of it is overwhelming in coke. It's actually very good. It has a sweet green herbal leafy flavor. so the coca extract does add a significant flavor to the final product. the coca stimulant in coca leaf is not cocaine until it is chemically processed and refined. In bolivia they typically add a little wood ash when chewing to break down and unfold the chemicals in coca into it's more powerful mouth numbing form. A simple ethanol extracted coca leaf acts as a mild stimulant and shouldn't numb the mouth. Its nowhere near as strong as cocaine. Great question!
How would I approach adding Gum Arabic as a stabilizer into the syrup system? Just curious how much I should put to increase the stability of the system
Excellent question! Just enough to moisten it with the exact amount of oil that will go in the syrup. It’s really hard to use gum Arabic on a small scale like this because you cant proportion it out like you can the alcohol emulsion. A syrup of this size only needs fractions of a drop of the oils which is why it’s diluted in 8oz of alcohol. The oils for cola and gum Arabic require a large scale syrup production. In my lemon soda video I show how to do gum Arabic. The technique is to grind and press the oils into dry gum Arabic to bind the oils to particles of the gum. So when the gum blends in it the oils stay stuck to it. I’ve tried other emulsifiers and stabilizers and gum arabic is the only one that this worked with.
@@VintageAmericanCocktails Thanks for the quick reply! How much quantity would you recommend for a starting point? I'm a food science student and may do a project on this for my capstone, so any recommendations would really help me out. Great video by the way!
@@VintageAmericanCocktails In total, there are 90 drops of oils added to the flavoring base. What's a good starting point for Gum arabic amount for this? Approximately how much did you use in the lemon soda video (was very helpful too!). Sorry to keep bugging you about it, but it would really help me out.
@@scorpionbird88 no worries. That’s 4.5 ml of oil so anything double that would work. Try a tablespoon (10g-ish of dry powder I think) if it seems too wet add a little more. While you want to be precise with the amount of oil, it’s not too important if there is more or less gum Arabic. Gum Arabic doesn’t affect the final product much until it’s 10-20% of the total volume, which if you are just using it to moisten oil you will get nowhere near.
@@VintageAmericanCocktails Awesome! So would I just add the compound gum directly into the syrup? Would I need to use any special mixing or heating for it to fully homogenize?
Where is the cocaine powder. That was one of the ingredient in orginal recipe of coca cola.
Could i use something else instead of alcohol for dissolving oils in this syrup
can this syrup be fermented with a ginger bug or water kefir to reduce the sugar content and release pro-biotics?
Oh I have no idea about ginger bugs but it’s sugar just the same. Maybe slowly feed it to the bug?
Does it go flat like original coke after opening or its taste remain unchanged over time? Also where to store it
It kind of does. The finished syrups flavor would last maybe 6 months but it wouldn’t even make it that long. the syrup itself will only last maybe 2-3 weeks in the refrigerator. On the other hand, The 7x Coca-Cola flavor base last almost indefinitely. I made this over a year ago and I still have some left and it still tastes the same.
When Bugs Bunny makes it the spoon melts.
lol was that the Halloween episode with witch hazel? I loved those old cartoons.
Was it satisfying and did it taste any good?
It did. It tastes very similar to present day coke.
I’m sure it makes a difference of the quality of oils used . Have you tried different brands of oils? Also can you tell us the brands you used?
This is amazing to see! Thanks - great!
Glad you like it!
My mother used to give us coke syrup for upset stomach. She would get it at the drug store that had a soda fountain.
Where do you source your oils from?
I was curious what the modern cola flavours are. I reduced some to a syrup so I could identify what the taste is. It's extremely specific. The front of the tongue gets caramel with a subtle cinnamon. The main flavour hits the central palette, it's pineapple butterscotch. After that the flavours vanish, no aftertaste at all (probably so you go back for another sip). I know the recipe is different around the world, I tasted it in Ireland.
So how much of the u know what should I put in the batch?
Where is the Cola nitida or Cola acuminata extract?
No phosphoric acid?
You are absolutely right and I totally got that wrong in this video. This is one of the first soda videos I ever made and I have learned a ton about soda making in the last few years. My acid game has significantly improved. Here is my updated version of coke where I make sure to use acid phosphate. Great job catching that!
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I just open the fridge and grab one.
Not Just Kidding. The original recipe did have cocaine in the original mix. I wish I could go back in time and sample the real original. The cocaine and all. It probably gave your mouth a numb feeling.
Oh yeah. I bet a lot of people have that same wish. I provided the correct amount of coca leaf extract that was added in the video but I live in the United States so no way I’m going to add that. Get the DEA knocking on my door.
Tell them that you're a Democrat.
They'll apologize, and go away.
Didnt they use any phosphoric acid in the original syrup ?
So, what utinsles would I need at the bare minimum
Big heat proof glass measuring cup, cheap scale to weigh the ingredients, pipettes to measure the tiny ingredients, spoon to stir with. Thats all I can think of as far as tools go.
@@VintageAmericanCocktails Sweet thanks, and to filter the caffeine was it using a regular paper towel or something of the sorts
I want a recipe for A&W Root Beer
So would that taste like the Coke we have now or has the recipe changed the flavor?
It tastes very similar. In this video I didn’t add coca leaf extract but It’s the primary flavor in coke in my opinion. coca leaf extract has a green bitter herb flavor similar to green tea. If I were to add that, it would taste exactly like coke.
That knot in the table is staring at me😮
If you gaze long into an knot, the knot also gazes into you.
jk. You're the second person to say that. I'm going to have to rewatch this video to see what is so off with that knot.
You added the original ingredients, didn't you?
So how does the taste compare???
Are those essential oils or some kind of food flavourings extracted in edible oils?
Is there a zero sugar version of this with artificial sweetners
oh man I haven't done that before but try this. to sub 1.1 kg (3.25 cups) of sugar do:
• 6.5 tbsp of stevia powder
• 3 tbsp of monk fruit (check bags for convertions as monk fruit is usually blended since it is SOOO sweet)
• 2.2 cups of agave
• coconut sugar should be a direct replacement for regular sugar.
I hope that helps. Im very unfamiliar with artificial sweeteners or even what is on the market these days.
what will it taste like if i dont put in the coriander, nutmeg,neroli,cinnamon oil
Oh man I don’t know. Like a lightly flavored lemon and orange drink. Actually that sounds pretty good.
Is it safe for drink?
Can I use something other than alcohol to emsulsify the oils?
I know this is an og recipe but how to make it without alcohol? Surely the ever clear effects the flavor?
I have to wonder what the current recipe is. ?
Is oil extract? Some oils are for diffusers and not edible I feel it would be confusing for people.
That’s a really good point and I will clarify that in any videos going forward. I do use essential oils but they need to be steam distilled. Some are produced using solvents and over a period of time that can be pretty harmful to consume. I’ll specify to only use steam distilled oils. Acetone was a popular solvent to use in the 1800s and that’s why many pharmacists died of stomach cancer back then.
The FDA considers some essential oils as GRAS (generally regarded as safe) as long as they are not produced with solvents and diluted to a concentration one could find in nature. Thank you for pointing that out!
@@VintageAmericanCocktails thank you for answering
Hi,Could I use a colorant since my coke does not have that characteristic black color?
Absolutely, make it any fun color you like. I left it clear once
What's the cocaine to sugar ratio ? You didn't mention it. I want to get it right when I try to make it.
Hello, when was this recipe stopped and replaced with the current formula that we drink today? Why did the original recipe not continue to the present day, because it seems to be a natural recipe, and better than the current formula that is full of flavours? I hope for a response. Thank you.
I don't know when it changed. I feel the biggest change to the recipe has been using artificial sweeteners because this recipe tastes very similar to a Mexican Coke. More crisp and refreshing than a normal store-bought Coke. I enjoy cokes directly out of the soda machine and glass bottle cokes, but the normal plastic bottle ones just taste flat to me.
I agree too that these are fairly natural. The caramel coloring could be left out but the rest is normal stuff. Natural oils, emulsified in alcohol, are added to a syrup and mixed with carbonated water.
and what about the coca extract ???
What is the budget of this formula in relatively small industrial batch. Say, weekly batch for a family of four, consuming one 12 oz soda a day person.
Thank you for this recipe and history lesson!
Of course! This was a super fun one to make and I learned a ton about using oils for flavor. I go into more information on my website which I think I have pinned in the comments. Glad you liked it! Enjoy!
can this not be made without alcohol?
Not really. The oils need something to help them emulsify in the syrup since they won’t mix on their own. You could try using glycerin since it is technically an alcohol and will blend the oils with water, but it is not ethanol so it can be used for “alcohol free” consumables. Large scale production will use gum arabic but you can’t divide it into smaller amounts. Since you are not making 100s of gallons of syrup, glycerin and ethanol are the only real viable options.
thanks for responding :)@@VintageAmericanCocktails
Where can i get all the flavor oils at?
I was asked this on my website recently so I will copy-paste the answer I gave.
Ah, a very good and simple question with a not very clear or simple answer. The problem is there is no one perfect supplier. There are many good essential oil suppliers but there are some crumby ones, and there are some cheap ones and some expensive ones. Fortunately, if an oil says it’s steam distilled or cold pressed and undiluted, then it probably is and I wouldn’t worry too much about it. Most oils are not too expensive so a bottle of cold-pressed lemon oil for 15-25 bucks is fine and most likely very high quality. Some though are very expensive. A 10 ml bottle of neroli or rose will never be less than 100 - 150 dollars. If you find a bottle of Neroli for less than that, it is for sure cut with other oils, but it will most likely say it is cut with other oils. In addition, there is no regulatory body overseeing essential oils. There are groups, such as the Essential Oil University, that will perform GCMS testing on oils and certify an oil’s level of purity, but submitting to groups like this is voluntary.
The 2 main things to look for when buying oils are: 1). Only use cold press or steam-distilled oils. 2). Only use 100% pure oils. Never use oils cut with other oils.
If you want to cover yourself find manufacturers that provide their GCMS oil test results. companies like Eden’s Garden and others do this, but those oils tend to come at a premium. If something seems too good to be true, it probably is. Lime or lemon oil for 15- 20 bucks is reasonable, but rose oil for 15-20 bucks? Impossible.
You can find these oils online and 10-30 ml of pure essential oil will last you a long, long time. 10ml of an oil can fully flavor almost 2000 drinks. That’s over 5 years if you make 1 soda a day. Just to put the cost into perspective.
By making your own syrups and sodas think of all the preservatives you are avoiding, but if buying oil stuff is a bit worrisome you can also make a homemade extract with the actual spices and peels. The essence recipes are 5% solutions but a standard extract will be 0.5%. just 10x each flavor for an extract replacing an essence. Instead of 0.5ml, use 5ml. just soak some nutmeg or lemon peels in vodka, add a teaspoon of each infusion, and call it a day.
I hope this helps. Again it’s not a simple question to answer.
@@VintageAmericanCocktails oh, your using essential oils. Yeah neroli is expensive. I use that to make cologne and man, its a pretty penny for sure.
My wife runs a natural cosmetics and soap shop. She makes things from scratch so she uses oils from butterfly express, now, and some other places. Sometimes she distills her own for fun hahaha
@@LT72884 oh that’s so cool. I thought about buying a steam distiller to make some of my own but I’m not sure how much I would actually use it. I also thought about getting a vacuum chamber for cold evaporating juices and making my own concentrates. I’m surprised I haven’t had the fbi knocking on my door yet. I also do a lot of gardening so I’ll buy pure nitrogen and other fertilizers. “ no officer, just making old fashioned sodas and growing my plants.” lol
I’ll check out butterfly express too. Thank you!
@@VintageAmericanCocktails yeah i buy fertilizer for making rocket fuel as i am an aerospace engineer hahaha, so i know the feeling of the feds lurking haha.
My wifes distillery is nothing more than a 3 gallon bucket with about 10 feet of copper tubing in a coil, hooked to a pressure cooker with a small piece of vinyl tube haha.
To expensive to buy one for as little as we need it.
I grew up gardening with my dad and mom i love it
Can we make it without the caffeine?
Absolutely. That would be the first thing I would remove. It adds no flavor.
@@VintageAmericanCocktails That's great.Thankyou for replying
This is wonderful!
Soooo how's it taste?
Angelo Mariani 1863 invented the first Coca-Cola. He was from the island of Corsica. He did fortune in US by selling it in its first version including coca leafs.
Na I think Pemberton invented it in America in 1885.
You forgot the cocaine.
Add it at time of consumption 🤣
Is this that special one they sold for a little bit, in the tall black cans, around like 5 years ago?
That was the Pepsi 1893 editions. Those were pretty good. Yeah it’s similar to those. I made a Pepsi 1893 video too.
ruclips.net/video/dpEiVIjm6Po/видео.htmlsi=JPeouxngrIAHNSI1
Right, and guess what? Coca Cola woke up one morning and said, lets give this thing away today.
CIA Columbian white powder is missing lol
Gordon Ramsay would say,...The secret to making a really delicious batch of Coca-Cola, is a nice big bag of cocain!😂
Me: about to try and order liquid extract of cocaine
You: Just kidding
Lol I wanted to make sure I at least provided the amount. If you watch my French wine coca video I show how to make imitation coca leaf extract that taste just like it.
Right?! Not kidding. I believe there was coke-aine in it at one point😉
How was carbonated water made back then?
Any substitute of alcohol cant use alcohol
Unfortunately not really. Nowadays coke uses gum Arabic and blends the oils with the dry powder but they dump that powder into a gigantic 55 gallon mixing tank. The problem with using gum powder on a small scale is you can’t proportion it out like you can the alcohol oil mixture. Maybe try vegetable glycerin? That may function the same as ethanol.
What about the Kola nut and the Coca (leaves I assume) that give it the name?
I think I mention it in the video but the recipe at this volume would have 160 milliliters of coca leaf extract in it, but I can’t add that in the video lol. Coca is illegal where I live so I can’t get that ingredient. Oddly the original Coca Cola recipe has no kola nut extract in it. I personally think raw kola nuts smell like Coca Cola so maybe that’s where it gets it’s name from, but who knows. The predecessor to Coca Cola, French coca wine, did have kola nut extract in it though.
@@VintageAmericanCocktails I live in Chile, and here Coca leaves are rather easy to obtain and not illegal. I didn’t know Coca Cola had a French ancestor 😀
@@gurusansarsinghkhalsa7104 I was thinking about making a French coca wine video. I got all the ingredients except for the coca, but I may try to do a similar tasting extract to substitute for it. People I know who have chewed it say it taste like a mix of Yerba mate and bay leaf. Do you think that is accurate?
@@VintageAmericanCocktails You could go on vacation where it's legal and make your video. Using real leaf will make your video one-of-a-kind and you will also get to vacation. That is if RUclips will allow such content.
Wow thanks. I thought there was a small amount of clove in the recipe? Don’t remember where I read this from though.
Clove sounds good. I was thinking about making my own cola recipe and I think clove would be great in it.
@@VintageAmericanCocktails I remember reading about it years ago that it was the secret ingredient but who knows. Let me know!
Phosphoric acid has always been used in factory production...no ?
You’re right! I made an updated version of this video with acid phosphate and imitation coca leaf extract. Good catch!
Here is the updated video.
ruclips.net/video/3nLz2cQ96sM/видео.html
I wanted to see you taste it!
Oh I don’t know if you would want to see that, not a pretty sight, but it tastes almost exactly like coke. It just lacks the coca leaf flavor which is a sweet herbal green leaf flavor. I made an updated version of this video where I make imitation coca leaf extract and that one is spot on.