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Ever wanted to make your own homemade perk-a-cola?
Straight Out of Zombies and in to Real Life Comes Epic's Guide to Making Realistic Perk-a-Cola!
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First off, you must design and prepare your bottles.
The materials you will need to complete this step are as follows:
Clear, glass - completely see through - bottles (no duh!). It is important what kind you get, popular are Coca-Cola (glass bottles), Dr. Browns bottles, and Coronita bottles, you can also use a different soda or beer bottle of your choice. NOW THIS IS IMPORTANT: The bottles must have a "screwable" reusable lid, so that once you take it off, you can put it back on tightly and correctly - twist off lids, but even then you must be able to reattach them. - Also its best if the bottle is not engraved, as this will show through when you put on your label.
Printable (printed) stickers. This is very important, they have to be "stickers" that you can print onto, mailing labels will suffice, but if you're at an arts and crafts store, look for either printed or printable stickers.
Goo Gone. Goo gone is a professional product (chemical based from a spray bottle) that you can purchase to remove the "goo" after you peel of labels, you can use another sort of "goo" (glue) remover, including rubbing alcohol.
Access to running water, such as in a sink.
Dishwashing soap
2 small cloths, one dry for wiping off glue/paper bits, one ready to get wet for when you dry off your bottles.
A printer (must be color) - of course you'll need a computer too, but you're already on one in order to access this site
Alright, first step is to remove the label from the bottle.
Do your best to peel off the paper and glue (or plastic and glue - depending on your label)
After that use Goo Gone, or your "goo-removing" product, that way you can get off all the excess "goo"
Use one of your small cloths to scrub off any excess label bits
The next step is to
be sanitary by cleaning your bottle.
Use dishwashing soap to clean your bottle, inside and out, make sure its nice and clean, its also a good time to ensure that you have gotten off all the bits of label left behind.
Then dry off your bottle completely, you may need to let it drip-dry for a bit to fully dry the inside, wipe off the outside so there is no water left.
Now that we've gotten all the label bits off, and throughly cleaned and dried our bottle we can progress to actually designing our label and applying it to our bottle.
First off, you can take two routes. Either design and create your own label in Photoshop or another photo editing software, or be sane (like the rest of us) and use one already created (since they should look all the same in the end anyways).
I have prepared some image packs for you, filled with different options and sizes for labels. I'd highly recommend you find the style that suits you, then print one out on regular paper to determine if the size fits. If it doesn't fit, either resize it, or choose another set!
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Ok, I guess you're probably still thinking "what the hell am I supposed to do with all this crap?" That's understandable. By now you should have selected the one you like best and downloaded it, or just downloaded the image pack (the easy way).
Now here are a few concepts for you:
The smaller set is perfect for the top of the bottles- however the larger set must be zoomed in to the preferred size - I zoomed it in to 165% for the best looking fit. ( This may not be true to your printer... everyone’s is different, test it out first)
Be Careful! Test out printing the labels beforehand so you know where to shift the labels to, that way you don’t waste sticker paper!
Remember – everyone’s printers are different so just get the labels in the right spot and you should be good to go.
Alright, I assume you get the picture. Nobody's printer and computer (and even downloader) functions exactly the same, and when you download them, they may not be the perfect size. This means you'll have to *resize* the images. Don't make you're first print on the sticker paper. Do it on regular print, line it up, figure out where you'll put it, and adjust the size to fit your needs. Once you've made sure everything fits perfect, print it out on the sticker paper.
*If you are resizing images: Sure you could even do this in Microsoft Word, but that's lame. We recommend a professional grade photo editor like Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop. Don't be lame and use the free "comes-with-your-computer" applications like Paint or even one of the Microsoft Office Programs - even though these work, you won't get as good of quality (but sometimes you have to make do with what you have, right?).
So, you've printed out your new *perfectly sized* *absolutely correct* pictures that are the type that *you want*, right? Well, once you've done that, and its printed on the sticker paper, you're ready to add them on to your bottle.
Now here's another major concept:
You would usually want the label to be situated right-side up and centered, but if you don’t want to, then don’t! They’re your bottles!
I'm actually being very lenient, here's the brutal honesty: unless your labels are right-side up and centered, your final work will look like a piece of crap. Big. Stinky. Crap.
Just something to keep in mind!
Apply the top/cap sticker first:
*** Note: This sticker is applied to the "top" of the bottle - basically the lid/cap that makes up the bottle covering
Step 1: Cut it out.
Step 2: Test and line them up, if need be, you may want to apply sharpie to the top of the cap/lid before adding it on, in the event the cap sticker doesn't cover it all the way, that way you don't have crap dangling out the side of your sticker.
Step 3: Peel back your sticker, get ready to stick.
Step 4: Center the sticker perfectly.
Step 5: Apply the sticker to the cap.
Next, apply the front sticker:
*** Note: This sticker is applied to the "front of the bottle" - basically the glass sides that form the actual bottle
Step 1: Cut out your sticker.
Step 2: Test and line them up, no sharpie though! This is where the "center and right-side up" concept comes into play. You're going to want to face the sticker the same direction your cap-sticker is facing as well as centering and making sure its right-side up.
Step 3: Peel the sticker back.
Step 4: Line it up carefully - perfectly. No second chances. Make sure you are remembering everything you worked out in Step 2.
Step 5: Apply the sticker to the side/front of the bottle.
Now Comes the Flavoring!
If you are simply doing this for display/replica purposes, and not as a consumable product, fill with water that has been colored using food coloring or other form of dye.
If you're wanting to put some legitimate flavoring in, you have two routes! The lame-sauce and the awesome-sauce route!
Here's the easy, boring lame-sauce route:
Lame-Sauce Method
Double Tap Root Beer = Root Beer
Juggernog = Red Mountain Dew (or other red drink)
Quick Revive Cola = Blue PowerAde or Blue Mountain Dew
Speed Cola = Monster energy drink, or other green drink
And here's the exciting, fun awesome-sauce route (the route I recommend):
Speed Cola (Note that you need about 1.5 cups to fill a bottle ~ depends on bottle)
1 cup Club Soda
4 Tbs. Lime Torani (Smart and Final)
½ tsp Sugar
1 tsp Corn Syrup
¼ tsp Lemon Juice
½ tsp Lime Juice
1 Drop Light Green Food Coloring
2 Drops Dark Green Food Coloring
Juggernog (Note that you need about 1.5 cups to fill a bottle ~ depends on bottle)
1 Cup Seltzer Water
3 Tbs. Raspberry Torani
½ tsp Corn Syrup
½ tsp Sugar
Quick Revive Cola (Note that you need about 1.5 cups to fill a bottle ~ depends on bottle)
1 Cup Club Soda
4 Tbs Blue Flavoring
¼ Tsp Sugar
½ tsp Corn Syrup
2 Tbs Vanilla Bean Soda (Catalanos/The Market)
1 Drop Light Blue Food Coloring
Double Tap (Note that you need about 1.5 cups to fill a bottle ~ depends on bottle)
1 Cup Seltzer Water
2 ½ Tbs Mandarin Orange Torani
1 Tbs French Vanilla Torani
5 Drops Yellow Color
1 Drop Pink Color
Stamin-Up (Note that you need about 1.5 cups to fill a bottle ~ depends on bottle)
4 Tbs Lemon Torani
Around 1 Cup Shasta
Lemon Toxic Waste
2 Tbs Lemon Juice
1 Tbs Lime Juice
Recommended color: Experiment with mostly yellows.
PhD Flopper (Note that you need about 1.5 cups to fill a bottle ~ depends on bottle)
1 Cup Shasta
6 Tbs Grape Syrup
~ 1 tsp sugar (if you think its needed)
1 Drop light blue color, or purple
Now, you can combine these easily, but if you need help, follow these easy steps:
1. Measure: Measure out the correct amounts
2. Add: Add in your flavoring
3. Stir: Mix it up!
4. Add: Add sugar and other water-like or soda-like liquids
5. Stir: Mix it up!
6. Add: Add corn syrup (if called for by recipe) and any remaining ingredients
7. Stir: Mix it up!
8. Carbonate: See carbonation methods below.
Many of these drinks work fine on their own, no carbonation needed (or no extra carbonation needed). If you really want to carbonate your drinks there are two methods:
First off, you can carbonate your drink with a machine-carbonator. If you have a "soda stream" machine - or any other "soda making" machine that injects gas into liquid so as to carbonate it, you can use that. I have a soda stream machine! Be resourceful!
The other alternative requires dry ice: place a fairly small chunk of dry ice atop your solution while its in a bowl with cellophane/plastic wrap over the top; it should be about the size and thickness of a full mini post-it notepad. This step is totally optional.
If you're trying to go for that "soda-like" feel then you might want to put in the little bit of extra effort. This dry-ice procedure is not recommended, nor tested by me (I find it generally doesn't need carbonation, and I have a soda carbonating machine), this was recommended by a friend.