Heritage DP has made it to Colorado. I pick up a 20oz, and I haven't been a big soft drink drinker in some time, I tend to buy a new product bottle just for taste. However, with Heritage DP, i drank the whole bottle, it was wonderful.
With real sugar, to me, the taste of the Dr.Pepper really shines through. There is not a sickly sweetafter taste as with HFCS sweetened sodas. I found it quite mellow actualy.

This product is a winner. I wish, this was the standard DP.

has anyone seen this in Southern California, specifically San Diego?

Hopefully I'll get to try some early next week - I hear the indie Pepsi distributor in eastern MD finally got it in.

I bought some of the Pepsi with sugar yesterday. Personally it doesn't matter to me if it's made with HFCS or sugar, it beats Coce Cola either way. But one thing they definitely should do is go back to the old Pepsi logo that they're using on these cans instead of that dumb logo they use now. That's one thing Coke has Pepsi beat on, hands down is the looks of their cans. But if Pepsi goes back to that old logo, that's a different story.

Originally Posted by Susan

I bought some of the Pepsi with sugar yesterday. Personally it doesn't matter to me if it's made with HFCS or sugar, it beats Coce Cola either way. But one thing they definitely should do is go back to the old Pepsi logo that they're using on these cans instead of that dumb logo they use now. That's one thing Coke has Pepsi beat on, hands down is the looks of their cans. But if Pepsi goes back to that old logo, that's a different story.

I have been a Pepsi-first drinker for all of my life, to the point of snobbery sometimes.

Then I started working in the Allentown/Bethlehem PA area mentioned above, and discovered there was something different about the Coke I got out of the vending machines at work. After a while, it hit me -- no HFCS, but instead sucrose (sugar). I no longer work there but I make a trip about every 3 months to bring back 200-250 cans of the stuff from Sam's Club in that area.

This is coming from a former Pepsi snob -- sugar Coke is my new favorite, better than regular Pepsi, better than old Throwback, better than new Throwback. I really think Coke (corporate) is missing something by not jumping on the Throwback bandwagon and/or switching more bottlers to sucrose.

If you get a chance to swing into one of the areas with sucrose Coke, try it. (Allentown, PA ; Cleveland OH; Buffalo NY). And it's very different than MexiCoke, much more flavorful and smooth; better tasting by a mile IMO.

And I agree on the logo failure of Pepsi. I was fine with the can redesigns and tweaks of the old Pepsi ying-yang logo. But a company works long and hard to establish a logo that becomes synonymous with the brand. The new logo, which I call "the sailboat", makes no sense to me. Some idiot consultants got paid millions to ruin the brand's logo, and IMO it's inevitable they switch back to some form of the old ying-yang.

I've been stocking up on Throwback, but I still haven't sighted Heritage Dr. Pepper yet...

I don't think Tonawanda (Buffalo) plant puts out Sucrose Coke.

Wow! I guess I haven't been on here in a while. I felt lucky to score some Pepsi Throwback at Albertsons tonight, and didn't even bother to look at the Dr Pepper section.

Originally Posted by lj01

has anyone seen this in Southern California, specifically San Diego?

Nope but I purchased 2 20 oz bottles at a gas station just off the freeway in some rural part of CA on my way home from the bay area.

anybody seen any in N.C.? I've yet to see any in Winston-Salem or surrounding areas.

My sister -- who lives in Indiana -- found me some Heritage Dr Pepper (as it's not in Chicago) and sent some my way. Add some snow, a tree, and my camera and you have...

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