My Daughter and a Dr Pepper fan.
The sign over the bottling factory.
Two really cool DP trucks in front of the Bottling factory.
The town is renamed to Dr Pepper, TX for a week a year in celebration. Notice the population is 10-2-4, the actual population is a little over 3000. The man wearing pink pants was an Elvis impersonator. He served me some fajitas. I said thank you, he said "Thank you, Thank you very much". It was rather amusing to me.
This place makes Dr Pepper floats that are worth the drive on their own.
Here is a shot of the bottling process. These ones are complete and awaiting three shakes to mix the soda water and the syrup and then the light inspection to check for foreign debris, coloration and cracks.
That would've been a fun tour to go on. I've taken to drinking a lot of Dr Pepper since I moved down here. Google Maps tells me it's 2 hours and 45 minutes away - that's a bit of a long drive just to visit a bottling plant.
ReplyDeleteThe place I'd really like to go is the Spoetzl Brewery in Shiner. We passed through Shiner once, but it was a Saturday, and the brewery only gives tours on weekdays.
Have you had the Dublin Dr Pepper? It's the "elite" Dr Pepper. Lol, if you can have an elite soda. If you don't want to make the drive you could always order stuff from their website. They sell the Dr Pepper syrup. I mix it with Blue Bell homemade vanilla and milk. It's delicious and tastes just like the shake they made there in Dublin.
ReplyDeleteI think Shiner is double the distance from where you are. Might be worth it for the free beer though :)