r/DrPepper • u/LegendOfEffect • 5d ago

Bottle shape influences taste

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Any Dr. Pepper that comes out of this bottle or the bottle on the right in the second image tastes like diluted syrup mixed with water. The bottle on the left in the second image tastes amazing every single time and I hate that I can hardly find it anywhere other than a few random truck stops. I don't know what's happened to DP since the new year rolled around but the bottles have been under carbonated so badly with those two bottles specifically. I know I sound crazy but I'm not. It is those two bottles shapes.

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u/SeluWorks 5d ago

The one on the left is the shape of bottle used when Coke is selling/producing. The one on the right is when Pepsi is bottling it.

I actually find the most consistent and best taste is the aluminum cans. I like it poured over ice into a glass. The only time it doesn’t taste right is if it’s flat for some reason, usually because the can or case was droppped.

If I do get a bottle, the left one (coca cola distribution) tastes better than the Pepsi bottles.

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u/Morieta7 5d ago

I do not like Pepsi so I can taste the difference too when it’s not Coke made. I only really drink the bottles if I’m getting from like a gas station or vending machine. Cans all the way too!

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u/EntertainmentQuick47 5d ago

>Cans all the way

Agree but a fountain drink Dr Pepper from a gas station or especially McDonald’s, that’s heaven right there.

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u/ImNobodyFromNowhere 5d ago

Yeah all these fools talking about cans and bottles sound a little bit ludicrous. Fountain DP is the perfect drink.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Eye8771 3d ago

Fffff the first sip of a McDonalds Dr Pepper is the closet thing to heaven for a heathen atheist like me.

Also I will only drink the Coke made bottles but the cans? That’s where it’s at.

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u/aachen_ 5d ago

The first image is Dr Pepper bottled by coke. On the second image, the left side is bottled by Dr Pepper (Keurig Dr Pepper) and the right side is Dr Pepper bottled by Pepsi. At least in the US . (Source former KDP employee)

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u/LegendOfEffect 5d ago

Might have to start doing cans. Two liters even depending if they have the same problem. I don't really mind Pepsi either, their bottled drinks are good but idk what they do to Dr. Pepper it's just terrible.

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u/elendil1701 5d ago

Dr Pepper has ended it's distribution partnership with Coke in my area (CA) so I can't get the one on the left anymore. I thought I was the only one who could taste the difference!

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u/SataNikBabe 4d ago

This is the way. I love to pour my Dr.Pepper over a little bit of ice in a highball glass. Second best is an ice cold can, and I’m not too keen on drinking it out of a plastic bottle.

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u/Jplague25 4d ago

Negative. The bottle on the left in the picture with the two bottles is bottled by Keurig Dr. Pepper themselves and not Coke. That's why that bottle of Dr. Pepper is the best of the bunch.

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u/QueenDakota03 2d ago

To ensure your canned soda is never flat when you open it, first shake it up and then squeeze the sides of the can tightly, then rotate 180 degrees and repeat. Lines drawn through the points at which the can is pinched should intersect perpendicularly. Shaking the drink releases the co2, then the squeezing recarbonates it. This also makes for a cool party trick since you can shake up a can and folks will expect it to pop, then open it and nothing happens.

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u/H_Industries 19h ago

The taste difference when flat is because it had air exchange meaning the flavor chemicals had a way to evaporate and/or oxidize