Alternatively, Pepper, PhD.
Most sodas are pretty intensely flavored, and have fairly complex flavors in their own right. Colas are generally a citrus/cassia/cinnamon combination, and Dr. Pepper is something akin to a spiced cherry soda, although I’m not sure what the spices are.
They generally tend to overpower most spirits, and even the ones that work well with Coke generally lose any subtlety they had- can you really tell the difference between a Jim Beam and Coke and a Blanton’s and Coke? And if you can, is it worth it to spend the extra on Blanton’s if you’re going to mix it with Coke? (the answer is most likely no among bourbon enthusiasts). Or a Grey Goose & Coke vs. a Smirnoff & Coke?
Dr. Pepper has such a distinctive flavor that is both very sweet and has sweet-type notes from the almond/cherry flavor and the spices, so anything in the bourbon, rye or rum categories is going to amp that up and make it cloyingly sweet. I can’t imagine gin & DP or tequila & DP is actually tasty, and vodka & DP is just straight up Dr. Pepper flavor. Brandy/Cognac & DP sounds awful to me as well.
There are some drinks where a soda and spirit work well together, usually with some lime thrown in. The Cuba Libre (rum, Coke & lime), the Dark & Stormy (rum, ginger beer & lime), and the Paloma (tequila, grapefruit soda, lime & salt) are the 3 I can think of off the top of my head.
As Peremrose said, it just looks cleaner and perhaps more modern. It’s not that odd. Read a British newspaper, and you’re likely to see the same thing. Lots of abbreviations like Dr and Mr don’t get a period. I know Dr Pepper isn’t British, but the trend to drop periods in abbreviations is not unusual.
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Originally Posted by elbows View Post
You stock root beer on your bar and people would bring their kids into the bar. It’s not good for business, because other judgmental people think kids don’t belong in bars. They don’t like to see that, even when it’s some clueless weekend Dad who just doesn’t know any better. A disdainful majority is not conducive to a good night at the bar for anyone. It’s nobody’s business if he’s feeding his four year old chili dogs and chips with root beer while he plays pool. But it upsets people, and some of them won’t come back because they don’t want to see that.
I heard this excuse from three different bar managers, in three different bars, so maybe there is something to it.
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OMG. Guess you have never lived in rural America (where true Americans come from). The only place to eat in town is the local bar and grill. Kids grow up playing pool, eating burgers and drinking root beer right next to there mom and dads having a beer. It’s not the end of the world, really no different than going to Applebee’s.
This reads like the start of a tale by Edgar Allen Poe.
Mixer? Jose don’t need no stinking mixer! 
Next time man up and shoot your Tequila straight like God intended.
Haha, this is actually how (and what) I drink - I may be nuts, but I feel that it hits me faster if I drink then chase, as opposed to drinking a mixed drink.
snerk
I would venture to guess that those 3 different bar managers have a strange view of things. Most bars I know stock the things they need at the bar and root beer/Dr P generally isn’t one of them. I don’t see how having root beer or Dr P would attract more kids when these places will have Coke, Pepsi, 7-Up, Sprite, juices, etc.
If a bar doesn’t want kids, they usually don’t allow them.
I agree that Dr P has a more complex taste than a cola. It causes some funky flavors when mixed with most alcohols (tried it before when there was nothing else to mix with).
“where true Amerucans come from”
Ok this explains a lot!
It is good warm, perhaps with some rum or the like. That or since it’s apparently got a lot of complex flavors, maybe try offsetting them with a combination of alcohols. What better than substtuting Dr Pepper for Coke in a Long Island Tea. I wonder if that’s been tried.
Kinda starting to feel like Woody Boyd in Cheers when he wanted to invent a new drink. After much effort he succeeded, then couldn’t remember what he had used.
The main flavor of Dr Pepper is prune juice. I’ve never had a cocktail made with prune juice, but it sounds pretty vile.
Cite, please?
It’s an old urban legend. But it really doesn’t matter even if were true, because it doesn’t taste like prunes. I taste mostly almond, cherry, and vanilla.
I have a faint memory of an add campaign for warm Dr Pepper. No cite however.
Here you go:
Here is the font that finally killed the period. The r in Dr became just a slanty line with a dot.
http://www.gono.com/museum2003/museum%20collect%20info/drpepper/dp38.jpg
In my younger days when I was a much less experienced drinker, I really enjoyed Dr. Pepper mixed w/ Malibu Rum. The coconut flavor mixed really well w/ the Pepper. Way too sweet for me these days though.
Cocktails available in Cafe Society. Moved.
samclem, moderator
I only do that for a good añejo (need to go to the liquor store and buy a new bottle of Milagro.) Anyway, I had just come home from college to a terminally-ill cat I had had for 12 years and knew it was the last time I’d ever see her before she had to be put down. Normally my parents keep more liquor in the house than that; I don’t know why that’s all I could find that night.