Vacation day 3....Dublin Dr. Pepper Plant

On Friday, we drove to Dublin to the oldest Dr Pepper bottling plant. While we were there, we visited Doc's Soda shop and went on a tour to see the equipment used to bottle the origional recipe of DP using pure cane sugar instead of corn syrup. We were also treated to a nice cold Dr Pepper while on the tour.

There was a very impressive collection of old signs and memorbila from the company like the sign above.

This is part of the machine used in the bottling process. Can you see the red marker on the right hand side of the picture? We were asked to guess what its function was. After a few tries and no one in our group guessing right, the girl leading us told us that it is their dating system. How simple and amazing that this is still their method. The color of the marker is changed 4 times a year, and that is how they know when the product was made.

Here, the bottles have been filled with syrup and carbonation, and are going into these four slots for a 3 step rotation to be mixed. After they have been mixed, the ingredients will never seperate.


I don't remember what step this is.

AA check station to be sure their aren't any visible cracks in the bottles before they are capped.

This is a diagram on the side of the part of the equipment that sterilizes the bottles before they are filled.

Where the bottles are loaded. They have these huge tongs that pick up ten bottles at a time to load them on the conveyer belts.

Bottles being stored waiting to be filled.

Finished product on a lamp to check for color/fill quality. The 3rd bottle from the left is the correct bottle.

The pictures obviously are not in the correct order. But it was very interesting to see how my favorite drink is bottled.

All the products bottle in Dublin.