<P> Most of the machinery in the Dublin Dr Pepper Bottling dates to the 1930s and the plant only runs once a month, enough to refill the roughly 2,000 glass bottles that have circulated for decades . Since the 1990s, it has outsourced most of its production to Temple Bottling Company, a larger independent Dr Pepper bottler in Texas about 110 miles to the southeast . </P> <P> During the late 1970s and early 1980s, almost all American soft drink bottlers switched from cane sugar to HFCS (high - fructose corn syrup) because of a rise in the price of sugar for a number of political reasons . However, the owner of Dublin Dr Pepper Bottling Company of Dublin, Texas refused to switch sweeteners, and it remained one of few bottlers in the United States to continue using cane sugar year round . Though the Dublin plant is not the only Dr Pepper bottler to have used cane sugar instead of HFCS as a sweetener, the Dublin plant was the most well - known plant to not make the change . Dr Pepper containing cane sugar carried the Imperial Sugar logo and thus the variant became popularly known as "Dublin" Dr Pepper . In addition to Dr Pepper products, the Dublin plant also produced Sun Crest Orange, Triple XXX, and NuGrape in 9 - 10 ounce returnable bottles . To purchase drinks in the 9 - 10 ounce returnable bottles, the buyer must first have provided their own crate of empty bottles in order to make an exchange . </P> <P> As of 2011, the Dublin Dr Pepper Bottling Company had sales of $7 million a year and sold less than 1% of Dr Pepper's annual U.S. volume . The Kloster family owns approximately 90% of the bottler . </P> <P> The company, having been founded by Sam Houston Prim, was operated by his daughter, Grace Prim Lyon, until her death June 7, 1991 . William P. "Bill" Kloster, affectionately known as "Mister Dr Pepper" inherited the company from Grace Prim Lyon & operated it until his death September 27, 1999 . His grandson, Mark Kloster, is now general manager of the family business . </P>

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