Always Coca-Cola? Ain't Nothin' Like The Real Thing!

[Talbot]

Good point about temperature. The official Coca-Cola specification for serving fountain Coke is that it is to be chilled to exactly 34 degrees, and it also tastes better from a bottle or can at that temperature.

Lizzie, are you making a distinction between post serve and fountain?

We only seem to have post serve here. It comes out brown - white - brown - white, etc.

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[LizzieMaine]

Currently, Coke offers only two options for fountain service: post-mix, which involves a bag-in-box container of syrup which is mixed with carbonated water at the fountain tap, and pre-mix, which uses small metal kegs of prepared soda, pumped to to the fountain by pressurized lines. They don't sell syrup in barrels or jugs anymore for drugstore-style mixing in the glass, unfortunately.

With a post-mix system, the ratio of syrup to water is pre-set by the Coke rep, thru a locked panel on the fountain for which only he has the key. That way there's no way the operator can chisel by cutting the amount of syrup used per serving. There's no mixing at all involved in pre-mix, which is basically just a really big can of fully-prepared soda.

The temperature specs are the same for pre-or-post mix: 34 degrees, no more no less.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I had a mexican Pepsi with my lunch today. 12 ice cold ounces in a glass bottle. It hit the spot.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Currently, Coke offers only two options for fountain service: post-mix... and pre-mix...

Which do you prefer? Do you think one tastes better than another?