I love Moxie, it's not always the easiest to find but well worth buying when you can. If you're looking for a copy-cat that's easier to make at home, or as a bartender as recommended in the video: 8oz Coke or Coke Zero (not diet) 3-4 Dashes of aromatic bitters Either add the bitters first or stir lightly; adjust amount of bitters to taste. It might not be exact, but it's close enough and the ingredients are nice and simple. (And at least where I'm at, cheaper than buying Moxie) Very slick seeing a more thorough tutorial though.
gentian root was in it since the beginning. It is also claimed moxie was the first commercial drink to have it. And that is where to "healing properties" came from.
Not healing, nerve restorative, and yes it was in it from the beginning when Thompson make the recipe. Frame of reference, I am a moxie historian, a holder of a copy of the encyclopedic history of moxie(the history volume), Mainer.
@SoftBunnyMommy it claimed to heal everything from "loss of manhood to the common cold." I also have the encyclopedia from bowers, the moxie mystique from porter. Moxie from veilleux (I own some of the pieces that were photographed for that book) Maine in a bottle from baumer and moxie from sasseville & lewis.
@SoftBunnyMommy Sadly not. I hope to make it up at some point but I currently live in Texas and that's kind of a difficult trip to make. I had a friend send me a few jars of jam from last fest though.
@@draxgoodall3685 Just had Moxie BBQ sauce at the festival yesterday, at a Jamaican food truck. They had diet Moxie too, which is great. My family has an old, wooden Moxie box from pre-1946. I have no idea how old it actually is.
Thanks for posting this- especially since I'm a genuine Moxie lover trapped in a foreign land. Back when I lived in New England, I had a favorite pick me up for after hot weather workouts I called "The Thirsty Gardener"; one can of ice cold Moxie in a chilled 1 qt. mason jar, with 4oz. of a neutral flavor Vodka, then add the biggest frozen fresh strawberries on hand to nearly full- no ice. Sit in the shade, sip on the drink, and eat the berries as they thaw- perfect. 😊The faint vanilla tones and bitterness of the Moxie makes the berries taste even sweeter, and the Vodka serves to enhance their perfume, giving it a clean, sharp, slightly medicinal tang without muddying up the flavors like a brown liquor would. Perfect 'before dinner' drink...
Another interesting video Darcy. I’d be interested to know if you ever looked at Irn-Bru (Scottish, contains quinine) which now comes with sweeteners (UK sugar tax), alas, although I think in Canada you can still get it with just sugar.
I don't have much experience with Irn-Bru, it is hard to come by here. There are other quinine colas I've tried and there are old recipes for similar, but I've never come across any mentions of Irn-Bru in old soda books/journals, though most of those are North American.
How would malic acid adjust the taste of this recipe? I often use malic acid for food and drink to add an acidity with less of its own flavor to overwhelm others (compared to citric acid), but I've never used acid phosphate or phosphoric acid.
Depends on the anise extract concentration, but all extracts are less than an essential oil, so start with an equal amount and you can always adjust by adding more if you don’t find it flavourful enough.
I'm Autistic and I came here to learn how to make the essences and extracts needed to make my own Moxie syrup, however the style in which this presentation is done is giving me sensory overload which is excruciating. Is there any way to get only the information and techniques without all the rambling?
Honnestly, you make AMAZING, really precise video, but it's hard to follow you, specialy when english isn't native language, if you have time to ad at the screen the name and the description, that could help a lot, caus you use lot of really special ingredient, and if i don't watch 5 time i can't remember what is what... And hard to find the translation if i don't have the right word (ps : in your video "how to make a flavour essence", you put the word "on the screen with pen", that was really more easy to follow)
@@Artofdrink Jonathan P., I can imagine your frustration. May I gently suggest that the best option is for you to invest time and money in classes to improve your English language skills? America, and American money, rule the Earth. You've heard of the Golden Rule: He who has the gold, makes the rules.
I interpret your question to be asking, "You say in the video, "any bitters".....by that do you mean to say "use any flavor of bitters" or "use any Brand of aromatic bitters".
I crunched numbers on things like a SodaStream home kit for making sodas.......so completely not worth it. CO2 cannisters shockingly expensive to buy. I tried making a rig with two bottles to put vinegar and baking soda in one, to infuse water with bubbles in the other.....Fail.
WHERE can these ingredients be purchased? What, exactly, is the last ingredient you add? Is this seltzer water? Has anyone crunched numbers on the cost to make this versus buying it through, for example Amazon, which lists a gouging retail price? Also, your final result is VERY pale compared to commercial Moxie.
He used a much lighter shade caramel color than typical. Personally I buy gentian root and Wintergreen essential oil from Mountain Rose Herbs. After that, all I have to do is use 95% alcohol from Total Wine (Everclear) to make gentian root extract, Wintergreen essence, and a small amount of anise essence. If you haven't seen them yet, he has great tutorials on how to make all of these as well as caramel color.
I just got a 12 pack for the first time in years and you're exactly right! It's practically just a root beer now. I add some angostura bitters or if I'm looking for a drink, some Jägermeister, it helps it become reminiscent if the original flavor. But otherwise, I'm looking to follow this video and make my own soon
Maybe instead of each viewer jumping through hoops, tracking down sources, and reading dense certificates of safeness, you simply do that work for the viewer by selling kits. This kit has safe ingredients and recipes to make five sodas......that type of thing. Yes, lots of folks do this for the joy of messing around. Some of us are trying to do different things.....make rare soda flavors (birch beer, sasparilla, moxie) on a tight budget, cheaper than two dollars a can, which is what moxie costs now. Some of us are retired, disabled, but yearn for small luxuries. Skyrocketing inflation drives us to hope we can save a buck and DIY. I like your book, but it has such TINY print. Needs to be larger pages, larger font, and spiral bound so it can lay open on a kitchen counter. These days, almost impossible to give criticism without backlash. When I was young, I was taught things...."the customer signs your paycheck" for example, and "a customer complaint is not an annoyance or an interruption, it's an opportunity to improve" and "it costs five times more money to attract a new customer than it does to retain a current customer." All gone now......no such thing as the work ethic, no such thing as pride, integrity, honor, loyalty, courtesy, manners, dignity. All now is greed, lazy, "snarky", incompetent, stupidity, vapid, hasty, self-centered, unreliable. Shallow, superficial, no respect for anything but "What is popular".........popularity is not a measure of quality, but the kids now act as if it were.....
Moxie stopped being good when commercial bottlers bought it -- and added sugar/artificial sweetners!!! I am a third-generatic afficianado. I frink it despite the current junk.
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I love Moxie, it's not always the easiest to find but well worth buying when you can. If you're looking for a copy-cat that's easier to make at home, or as a bartender as recommended in the video:
8oz Coke or Coke Zero (not diet)
3-4 Dashes of aromatic bitters
Either add the bitters first or stir lightly; adjust amount of bitters to taste.
It might not be exact, but it's close enough and the ingredients are nice and simple. (And at least where I'm at, cheaper than buying Moxie)
Very slick seeing a more thorough tutorial though.
Thank you for this suggestion. The price online for Moxie is gouging. I'll get some Coke and give this a try....
Which type of bitters do you use?
@@SusanHopkins-ji3pe - I've used Angostura.
gentian root was in it since the beginning. It is also claimed moxie was the first commercial drink to have it. And that is where to "healing properties" came from.
Not healing, nerve restorative, and yes it was in it from the beginning when Thompson make the recipe.
Frame of reference, I am a moxie historian, a holder of a copy of the encyclopedic history of moxie(the history volume), Mainer.
@SoftBunnyMommy it claimed to heal everything from "loss of manhood to the common cold."
I also have the encyclopedia from bowers, the moxie mystique from porter.
Moxie from veilleux (I own some of the pieces that were photographed for that book)
Maine in a bottle from baumer and moxie from sasseville & lewis.
@@draxgoodall3685 Greetings Fellow Moxie Historian! Ever made it to the festival?
@SoftBunnyMommy Sadly not. I hope to make it up at some point but I currently live in Texas and that's kind of a difficult trip to make.
I had a friend send me a few jars of jam from last fest though.
@@draxgoodall3685 Just had Moxie BBQ sauce at the festival yesterday, at a Jamaican food truck. They had diet Moxie too, which is great. My family has an old, wooden Moxie box from pre-1946. I have no idea how old it actually is.
Thanks for posting this- especially since I'm a genuine Moxie lover trapped in a foreign land. Back when I lived in New England, I had a favorite pick me up for after hot weather workouts I called "The Thirsty Gardener"; one can of ice cold Moxie in a chilled 1 qt. mason jar, with 4oz. of a neutral flavor Vodka, then add the biggest frozen fresh strawberries on hand to nearly full- no ice. Sit in the shade, sip on the drink, and eat the berries as they thaw- perfect. 😊The faint vanilla tones and bitterness of the Moxie makes the berries taste even sweeter, and the Vodka serves to enhance their perfume, giving it a clean, sharp, slightly medicinal tang without muddying up the flavors like a brown liquor would. Perfect 'before dinner' drink...
Another interesting video Darcy. I’d be interested to know if you ever looked at Irn-Bru (Scottish, contains quinine) which now comes with sweeteners (UK sugar tax), alas, although I think in Canada you can still get it with just sugar.
I don't have much experience with Irn-Bru, it is hard to come by here. There are other quinine colas I've tried and there are old recipes for similar, but I've never come across any mentions of Irn-Bru in old soda books/journals, though most of those are North American.
Irn-Bru 1901 is available in the UK and is the original recipe with no artificial sweeteners or caffeine. It also contains quillaia extract.
How would malic acid adjust the taste of this recipe? I often use malic acid for food and drink to add an acidity with less of its own flavor to overwhelm others (compared to citric acid), but I've never used acid phosphate or phosphoric acid.
Does 3:2 simple syrup mean 3 parts sugar to 2 parts water? Sorry for the boring question. I'm going to attempt this recipe very soon!
Yes that is correct
for the full bottle, how much bitters and acid would you use?
I Love it
If I were to replace the Anise essence with an Anise extract, how much would you recommend using?
Depends on the anise extract concentration, but all extracts are less than an essential oil, so start with an equal amount and you can always adjust by adding more if you don’t find it flavourful enough.
I'm Autistic and I came here to learn how to make the essences and extracts needed to make my own Moxie syrup, however the style in which this presentation is done is giving me sensory overload which is excruciating. Is there any way to get only the information and techniques without all the rambling?
No, I can’t create videos for every different learning style, that would be dumb.
Well that's just rude.
15 ml Gentian Extract
15 ml Wintergreen Essence
2 ml Anise Essence
30 ml Caramel
1.0 grams Caffeine (optional)
900 ml Soda Syrup
Same here. Too much crap.
@@Artofdrink I get what your saying but just having a ingredients list in the description isn't a terrible burden.
Honnestly, you make AMAZING, really precise video, but it's hard to follow you, specialy when english isn't native language, if you have time to ad at the screen the name and the description, that could help a lot, caus you use lot of really special ingredient, and if i don't watch 5 time i can't remember what is what...
And hard to find the translation if i don't have the right word
(ps : in your video "how to make a flavour essence", you put the word "on the screen with pen", that was really more easy to follow)
Thanks, and yes, I will add/improve the videos for non-English speakers by adding more text. And glad you find the videos useful. Cheers
@@Artofdrink Jonathan P., I can imagine your frustration. May I gently suggest that the best option is for you to invest time and money in classes to improve your English language skills? America, and American money, rule the Earth. You've heard of the Golden Rule: He who has the gold, makes the rules.
Any bitters? Orange or peach…? 😬
Might do a peach bitters in the future.
I interpret your question to be asking, "You say in the video, "any bitters".....by that do you mean to say "use any flavor of bitters" or "use any Brand of aromatic bitters".
I crunched numbers on things like a SodaStream home kit for making sodas.......so completely not worth it. CO2 cannisters shockingly expensive to buy. I tried making a rig with two bottles to put vinegar and baking soda in one, to infuse water with bubbles in the other.....Fail.
WHERE can these ingredients be purchased? What, exactly, is the last ingredient you add? Is this seltzer water? Has anyone crunched numbers on the cost to make this versus buying it through, for example Amazon, which lists a gouging retail price? Also, your final result is VERY pale compared to commercial Moxie.
He used a much lighter shade caramel color than typical. Personally I buy gentian root and Wintergreen essential oil from Mountain Rose Herbs.
After that, all I have to do is use 95% alcohol from Total Wine (Everclear) to make gentian root extract, Wintergreen essence, and a small amount of anise essence.
If you haven't seen them yet, he has great tutorials on how to make all of these as well as caramel color.
The stuff bottled by CocaCola is too sweet snd not ss strong as the original.
I just got a 12 pack for the first time in years and you're exactly right! It's practically just a root beer now. I add some angostura bitters or if I'm looking for a drink, some Jägermeister, it helps it become reminiscent if the original flavor.
But otherwise, I'm looking to follow this video and make my own soon
Still waiting for your reply
Send me an email will your production requirements and I'll see if it is a fit. Cheers
Maybe instead of each viewer jumping through hoops, tracking down sources, and reading dense certificates of safeness, you simply do that work for the viewer by selling kits. This kit has safe ingredients and recipes to make five sodas......that type of thing.
Yes, lots of folks do this for the joy of messing around.
Some of us are trying to do different things.....make rare soda flavors (birch beer, sasparilla, moxie) on a tight budget, cheaper than two dollars a can, which is what moxie costs now.
Some of us are retired, disabled, but yearn for small luxuries. Skyrocketing inflation drives us to hope we can save a buck and DIY.
I like your book, but it has such TINY print. Needs to be larger pages, larger font, and spiral bound so it can lay open on a kitchen counter.
These days, almost impossible to give criticism without backlash. When I was young, I was taught things...."the customer signs your paycheck" for example, and "a customer complaint is not an annoyance or an interruption, it's an opportunity to improve" and "it costs five times more money to attract a new customer than it does to retain a current customer."
All gone now......no such thing as the work ethic, no such thing as pride, integrity, honor, loyalty, courtesy, manners, dignity.
All now is greed, lazy, "snarky", incompetent, stupidity, vapid, hasty, self-centered, unreliable. Shallow, superficial, no respect for anything but "What is popular".........popularity is not a measure of quality, but the kids now act as if it were.....
Moxie stopped being good when commercial bottlers bought it -- and added sugar/artificial sweetners!!!
I am a third-generatic afficianado. I frink it despite the current junk.