The Dublin Dr Pepper Bottling Company has sold its rights to produce the iconic beverage in a settlement over a long-running feud.
The plant opened more than a century ago, filling containers with Dr Pepper made with pure cane sugar. But the oldest Dr Pepper bottler in the world has now produced its final “pick me up.”
The development is cutting deep, stripping the very identity of this small Erath County town 75 miles southwest of Fort Worth.
It is the conclusion of a lawsuit pitting Plano-based Dr Pepper Snapple Group and its most famous bottling plant — a 120-year-old facility that started building a brand that later defined this community.
“Every town wants to find something that’s uniquely theirs, and Dr Pepper was uniquely ours,” said Jeff Kloster, vice-president of Dublin Bottling Works.
Dublin was one of only a few facilities that produced Dr Pepper using the original cane sugar formula. It’s been operated by the same family for four generations… (continued)
We frequently drive through Dublin on our way to Harper. We’d frequently stop at the tiny bottling plant and attached shop and museum to get a Dr. Pepper float or a case of bottles. I read somewhere they’re going to continue making some kind of drink there, just not Dr. Pepper. I doubt I’ll be interested.
Poor little Dublin, this minor attraction was about all it had going for it.
