FALLOUT: I Made EVERY Nuka-Cola in the Vault Dweller's Cookbook! (Fallout 4 Nuka-World DLC)

[@Connor_Tyler]

For the Browning Sauce in the Nuka-Cola Classic recipe, there's some debate in the Fallout fandom that it's a typo, and the author actually meant to put Browning _Liquid_ instead. Browning Liquid is basically just caramelized brown sugar and water, mixed into a thin syrup, and is used primarily to add coloring to baked goods. It's a staple of Carribean baking and cuisine, but can pretty readily be bought in supermarkets. And it makes a helluva lot more sense to use in a soda recipe than a gravy additive.

[@quenchquestdrinks]

That would make a lot of sense - I found it strange that the recipe called for it, but given the amount of sugar, spices and fruit present the vegetal aspects are fairly buried and generally just lend a hint of umami to the total flavor profile, I can ultimately forgive it. Might just follow up with the author and see if we can't get a straight answer!

[@quenchquestdrinks]

Just an update: got an answer, it's in the new video! TL;DW - turns out, she did in fact mean Browning Sauce. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4DXZ2qHg750bs0

[@Connor_Tyler]

@@quenchquestdrinks Really now? That's interesting. I'll have to give it a shot using the Browning Sauce then, see how it compares.

[@BPL-KromBob]

you need more subs brother the editing and scripting is insane

[@quenchquestdrinks]

Appreciate it! It's fun merging my love of beverages and lore, and I think the videos are slowly finding the right audiences.

[@BPL-KromBob]

@@quenchquestdrinks definitely ! Keep it up :)

[@PlayerTheNoob-55]

seeing this at 2:30AM with a resetted brain no thoughts and hungry just hits different

[@quenchquestdrinks]

Especially with that fever dream of an intro song… 😂

[@cyborrooster4917]

The sheer amount of passion and effort you put into these videos is incredible. I'm so happy to have been recommended your videos and I'm excited to keep watching what you make next.

[@quenchquestdrinks]

Thank you! I've got a pretty ambitious list of videos on the idea board and in the works...

[@alexwalters35]

Frozen cherries, or any fruit, would actually be better than fresh. Frozen fruit is usually harvested and frozen very quickly which keeps in it's flavor and nutrients. With fresh cherries they could have spent weeks in transit, storage and sitting out which would mean less flavor and lower nutrients. EDIT: On a side note you should combine the cherry and vanilla syrups. I bet that would be really good.

[@quenchquestdrinks]

That cherry-vanilla combo is actually coming up soon - it was a Nuka-World blend called "Nuka-Love"! Also, totally agree on the frozen - I just try to make the recipes in all my videos to the letter so I have a baseline to improve on in potential future iterations!

[@ghostofrivia]

just described this channel and I’m blown away by the creativity and effort behind your videos. so cool

[@quenchquestdrinks]

Appreciate it! A lot more in the works!

[@TheGael128]

yeah imma need like 100 more of these videos please

[@quenchquestdrinks]

I got you, lots more to come! (in between all the other Elder Scrolls drinks and beyond, of course...)

[@StereoTyp0]

Fun Fact: A 20oz bottle of Coca Cola contains MORE than 120% of the maximum recommended sugar (65g/50g).

[@ranosian1135]

Mmmm diabetes

[@quenchquestdrinks]

Gimme that 30% 💀for real though, that's why I stick to Coca-Cola Zero usually...

[@bruticus1496]

Thank the overboss my gut can’t handle the acidity of regular coke so I stick with Coke Zero 😅

[@stolensaturnsedan]

I wanna try the Nuka Quartz.. I love a creamy soda

[@quenchquestdrinks]

It's really good! Might be a top contender for the Nuka-Cola Float...

[@CiaranAPT]

There's a pretty good chance when they said "browning sauce", they meant caramel browning sauce / liquid, just brown sugar and water.

[@quenchquestdrinks]

Yeah I heard that after the fact 😂 we'll see if the author can potentially provide any clarification if she responds!

[@quenchquestdrinks]

We have an answer, it's in the new video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4DXZ2qHg750bs0 TL;DW - turns out, she did in fact mean the Browning Sauce I used!

[@clocktamer]

it would probably taste bad but tonic water would cause quantum to glow blue under a uv light

[@quenchquestdrinks]

I bet we could make a cocktail or mocktail-version with slightly less syrup to try this out...

[@diurtydantv8061]

I personally like to replace the star anise with nutmeg. Otherwise it tastes like black licorice and thats disgusting.

[@quenchquestdrinks]

Yeah that was the primary tasting note my wife got, she was not a fan 💀 I think because I made it and was looking for all the other flavors I knew were in there, it wasn't as overwhelming to my palate.

[@riceniceman548]

For when you try Vim, it may be a good idea to buy yourself some Moxie to compare flavours, as that is the soda that Vim is based on.

[@quenchquestdrinks]

Might have something on the way already… 👀

[@jmrabz]

Sunset Sarsaparilla next!

[@quenchquestdrinks]

Working on a Sunset Sarsaparilla vs. Nuka Cola Wild video soon! 🤠 If you can't wait though, How To Drink made a fantastic Sunset Sarsaparilla video a while back: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mV6aZWCBeNiNo5Y

[@sarynnah1265]

Fantastic video! I’m so glad you recreated some of the other Nuka cola flavors, and I can’t wait to see you recreate the rest of them in the future! Your acting and editing skills made this video 100/10! 😁👍🏻

[@quenchquestdrinks]

Thank you! I like making videos I'd want to watch about the things I'm interested in and I'm glad other people seem like them too. Lots more to come!

[@The.Rot.Consumer]

Quantam looks good asf fr

[@quenchquestdrinks]

Tastes even better 🤙(I prefer it without the lore-accurate amount of sugar, though...)

[@Siberiancatsrule]

Honestly I expected more sugar in Nuka Cola quartz. It's entire thing was that there were sugar crystals in the drink to create a feeling of quartz crystals when drinking. So it's essentially an oversaturated sugar solution.

[@quenchquestdrinks]

Kind of want to make a more lore-accurate version of this one now... can you point me to the source(s) that talk about this? The closest I'm getting on the wiki is that in New Vegas, the consumption sound effect was crunching rather than drinking but I suspect there are more direct statements about the quartz-crystal drinking effect. While I don't want to just make a crunchy carbonated syrup, I think a drink with large sugar crystals or something added as a garnish could get us closer to the idea!

[@joshuablade6974]

The Merle's Very Cherry Soda and Lore-Accurate Nuka-Cherry look so good~. Though I feel like you could just combined Sprite with Cherry Juice and boom. Done. Though I'm sure that's not as "detailed/heavy" it's simple, effective, and cheap/accessible by the Middle-Class and Poor. XP

[@quenchquestdrinks]

It really would be! I've thought about doing videos on quick/cheap vs. long/expensive recipes, but I'm diving in on the official recipes themselves first.

[@joshuablade6974]

@@quenchquestdrinks Hey you do what you’re doin’ man cause it’s awesome, immersive, and flavorful but literally and metaphorically. ^^

[@TheEvilYoutube]

Yes! I was hoping you'd come back to Nuka-Cola! Edit: you should get Jones' Nuka-Cola Victory

[@quenchquestdrinks]

Might've gotten a little something in the mail the other day... 🤫

[@TheEvilYoutube]

@@quenchquestdrinks hmmm... What could it possibly be? 🤔

[@generalmcterror2718]

Bruh right when he did the random bullshit plug and ad played before his random bullshit commenced lmao right when Coop said the line

[@quenchquestdrinks]

Classic 💀not the worst auto-placement for an ad...

[@Zzantzanter]

I wonder what would be the fallout universe equivalent of pepsi and the unhealthy amount of sugar in normal cola is why I drink suger free pepsi

[@quenchquestdrinks]

Yeah Zero Sugar for me, please!

[@GrahamtheTitan]

Sunset saspirilla for sure

[@hannibalskov78]

amazing video, i own the cookbook aswell, defo gonna make this now.

[@quenchquestdrinks]

Thank you - excellent choice!

[@youngtriton7252]

Great video, but... I swear, I'm going to make my own Nuka Cola Quantum video... Because everyone who's done it this far, has done something objectively wrong, and it irritates me on a molecular level... Also, fun facts... Nuka Dark is just regular Nuka Cola with alcohol already in it... Either Rum or Whiskey (rum is the safe bet, because they literally released a Nuka Dark Rum, which had its own story worthy of a video) Nuka Wild is Nuka Cola Co. answer to Sunset Sarsaparilla. So root beer? Grape and Orange are self explanatory, in a similar vein as Cherry... But Victory is a true wild card, especially since Jones Soda just released that "Peach Mango" flavor... The only description of the flavor in-game was, "summertime in a bottle".

[@quenchquestdrinks]

Thanks! I want to make actually caffeinated versions of the ones that would have it, and I'm sure there's a way to potentially mess with a (potentially more stable) strontium isotope... probably still wouldn't drink that one though 💀 Working on all the ones you listed too so I can finally make the variants that are just blends of existing ones! Beyond the disaster that was the Nuka Dark Rum release, Nuka-Cola Dark was also confirmed by Fallout 76 to be a rum (or at least contain it and Nuka-Cola in some capacity) so I'm leaning that way (probably a dark rum, hence the name). The only addendum on Grape and Orange vs. Cherry is that Cherry contains some Cola, while Grape and Orange don't say they did (although orange did start as a pear-brandy flavor and apparently contains trace arsenic?). Gonna do Sunset and Wild together, and peach-mango sounds like it could be "summertime in a bottle" to me (at least Jones didn't just repackage an existing flavor like they did with their rendition of Quantum)! Appreciate the enthusiasm and would love to see some alternate takes on them! The recipes I've done so far are technically Vault-Tec's reverse-engineered + safer recipes, after all...

[@Fuzzypizzas]

I feel like nuka cola quartz is a cream soda

[@quenchquestdrinks]

I think that's a safe bet!

[@LazyQahnaarin]

I like to think, in the Fallout timeline, John Pemberton and Caleb Bradham were a gay couple whose child founded Nuka-Cola.

[@quenchquestdrinks]

Amazing, fantastic headcanon 😂 although they might need to have been born a bit later in the timeline themselves... or perhaps he's a descendant of both of them somehow 🤷‍♂ Also - I dig the username!

[@DDSN]

bros going to take sierra petrovita's job

[@quenchquestdrinks]

I also managed to do all the heavy lifting for the quest, I'd like to see Sierra take on the shenanigans at Dry Rock Gulch 🤠🔫 My basement may be turning into a makeshift Nuka Cola Museum in its own right...

[@planetdrull1701]

The idea of drinking 200 year old irradiated milk soda is disturbing to say the least…. Also where did you get those bottles you used for the syrup? They seem to be the right size and I want to be careful before trying this myself

[@tonyakrebs4137]

Lol, Milk Soda. Ewwwww

[@quenchquestdrinks]

Truly, I don't know how it isn't cheese-soda at this point... 🤢 They're actually just old whiskey and wine bottles I washed + sanitized! They're all 750ml, the only recipe that should have used a larger bottle is the classic Nuka-Cola syrup (it needs something more like 1 liter).

[@planetdrull1701]

@@quenchquestdrinks Thanks for the heads up

[@thomgizziz]

Are you adding the straw sucking sound? If not you need straws that actually work and don't seem to have holes in them. If you are adding that sound stop, what made you think that is the sound of sucking on a straw with a full glass?

[@quenchquestdrinks]

They're just glass straws - I did add the effect in post to cue that I was taking another sip in the event that someone was just listening rather than watching (otherwise it's just sort of an awkward silence). It's meant to be kind of "tongue-in-cheek" with a rather cartoon-y soda straw sound effect, but if it's egregious I'll dial it back on future iterations!

[@thesmilyguyguy9799]

:>D

[@iStarlit]

I like the video, it was well made and entertaining but I'm sorry, I just *have* to bully you for being such a baby about things being too sweet and small amounts of caffeine being able to "amp you up"

[@quenchquestdrinks]

I'll take the criticism 😂