Coca-Cola Peach
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Who’s got two thumbs and is excited about today’s beverage? This guy! I’m pointing to myself with both of my thumbs to complete the joke. This would work a whole lot better if you were watching me.
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Fresca Black Cherry Citrus
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Ok, perhaps I should go into a bit more detail. For those unaware, Fresca is made by Coca-Cola and is a citrus flavored beverage that favors grapefruit. I like Fresca, not as an all-the-time drink but every now and again I enjoy it. My enjoyment of Fresca directly correlates to how old I feel. “Wow, this is a refreshing, unique beverage…. Good God I feel like I’m 107”. I’m not sure why this occurs, but I associate the beverage with older people. A citizen of the Carbo-Nation handed me a Fresca I’d never seen before, Fresca Black Cherry Citrus, and I knew I had to try it
Read MoreMTN Dew Ice
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MTN Dew Ice is relatively new, so I figured why not do video reviews for recently released sodas. Who knows if this will stick? Not even me! Hope you enjoy the review.
Read MoreHollywood Original Shirley Temple Soda Pop
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Ginger ale, grenadine, and a maraschino cherry. Those are the three ingredients needed to make the drink known as the Shirley Temple. It’s a simple concoction, but a tasty one nonetheless. If you don’t feel up to making your own then I guess you could do as I did and grab a bottle of Hollywood Original Shirley Temple Soda Pop… or as the kids call it HOSTSP.
Read MoreZuberfizz Strawberry Rhubarb
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Quick, picture a rhubarb. For seven of you a clear concise picture popped into your head. The remainder had pictures spinning and stopping as if on a slot machine in their heads, never quite landing on one that worked. Rhubarb looks a little bit like red celery. I have no idea what it tastes like personally but according to the internet it is similar to sour green apples. I bring this up, as you’ve likely guessed, because today’s soda is Zuberfizz Strawberry Rhubarb.
Read MoreSprecher Cherry-Cran
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I thought I’d tried every Sprecher soda out there, but thankfully I haven’t. Sprecher makes some of the most consistently great soda out there and has wonderful label art to boot. Today’s flavor offering is Cherry-Cran (sweetened with a combination of glucose syrup and honey), which is sounds a bit odd if you ask me. Normally when “Cran” is involved it gets first billing, like Cran-Apple or Cran-Grape. Perhaps Ocean Spray has just made my brain accept that this is the normal order of things. Well here comes Sprecher to throw chaos into the mix with their Cherry-Cran taste, and I’m quite pleased to try it.
Read MoreJackson Hole Soda - Grand Teton Grape
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My fifth grade teacher was talking to us about the Grand Teton Mountain Range. I’m not sure why, I just remember the subject being discussed. At the end of the conversation she told us “Do you know what Grand Teton means? It means large *makes motion with hands that would make anyone think breasts*”. I’m not sure why she told us that, if it was a giggle test to check our maturity or if she just wanted to make learning cool. Either way it stuck with me, though there’s a chance it was named after the Teton Sioux tribe instead.
Read MorePrivate Selection - Huckleberry Hibiscus Cream Soda
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The final bottle of Private Selection (Kroger Brand) soda is upon us. Huckleberry Hibiscus Cream Soda is the flavor on hand and I’ve saved it for last for a reason. I’m often intimidated by flower flavored beverages. You tell me something tastes like cherry I know what to expect. Cola? You bet, I have several examples of that in my mind. Sarsaparilla is where it begins to get a little fuzzy, but I still feel confident enough to write on it. Rose, Hibiscus, or Lemongrass… I really reach to put my thoughts on paper.
Read MoreMTN DEW Game Fuel - Arctic Burst
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In clearing out my backlog of sodas that I need to review I came across a variety of Mountain (stock symbol MTN) Dew (stock symbol DEW). MTN DEW as many of you are aware is known for their somewhat experimental nature with sodas which is certainly something I applaud them for. Their army of soda flavors and penchant for change is a strength in the soda world in my opinion. Not all of the flavors are a hit with me, but guess what, I’m not the only person in the world who drinks soda so that’s A-OK.
Read MorePrivate Selection - Hopped Grapefruit Cream Soda
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Well it’s been a couple of weeks, but I’ve got another bottle of Private Selection soda in front of me today. Last time we tried their Bourbon Barrel Cola, but today it’s all about the Hopped Grapefruit Cream Soda.
Read MoreHEB Just Peachy
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Anywho, this review will be Just Peachy… HEB’s Just Peachy peach soda that is! Just Peachy is cane sugar sweetened as most if not all of the HEB brand limited edition sodas are. The other ingredients aren’t really noteworthy, but I’m expecting a big peach taste not unlike Big Peach.
Read MoreBai Lambari Watermelon Lime
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Unexpected, but sweet. Like a water balloon fight with your grandma.”
In a font the same size as the flavor of the drink, that’s what the makers of Bai - Lambari Watermelon Lime want you to know about their beverage. This stylish black can with minimalistic design caught my eye at the store. According to the can it’s not a soda it’s a “sparkling antioxidant infusion”. You’re a non-alcoholic, carbonated, flavored beverage; that’s a soda in our book.
Read MoreSaborsazo Manzana Fresca
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Who here has never had an apple soda? If your arm is up I applaud your dedication to this bit and suggest you try an apple soda this week. Pepsi makes one called Manzanita Sol that should be fairly easy to get if you can’t find one from a Mexican bottling company. Apple sodas are good and are rarely as sweet as your berry flavored carbonated beverages. They’re usually smooth, refreshing, and hold a somewhat natural taste to apples. What I have in front of me today is an apple soda, specifically one called Saborsazo Manzana Fresca.
Read MoreSaborsazo Limon
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This review is a review of firsts for me. I’ve never used my phone as a mobile hotspot until now and I’ve never typed a review in my car until now. How will this affect the overall quality of the review? Read on to find out. Today we’re going to tackle a drink I already have an opinion on, Saborsazo Limon. I bought this soda from HEB a while back, possibly last year, but after consuming it didn’t want to write about it… I just wanted more. I’ve had probably twenty cans of the stuff since then, but with my new push to put out content for the site felt it was time to jump this the biggest of hurdles.
Read More7UP
/I didn’t think I’d be writing a review of 7UP, but here we are. Back in 2011 I reviewed Retro 7UP, the cane sugar sweetened version of what I’m about to drink. Since 7UP, in it’s most common state, is filled with HFCS it felt needed to included on the site. Is this considered stat padding? Perhaps… but it’s different enough to count, just like you. There, don’t you feel motivated now?
Opening the can created a thunderous crack, much more so than any cans I can remember opening in recent memory. The scent that wafts out is a familiar one, more crisp lime than lemon but so bright a smell that it’s hard to not just call it citrus. Let’s drink, shall we?
A somewhat sticky lime/lemon taste immediately coats my mouth. Through no fault of it’s own I remember being sick. You see, 7UP was the “go to” cure all for an upset stomach in my house as a kid, often paired with a sleeve of Ritz crackers. So while 7UP is by far and away my favorite of the mainstream lemon/lime sodas, there is also the curtain of sick nostalgia that weighs it down.
The sips begin with a sharp burn on the back of my throat, and after three or four a burp is summoned burning just a little bit more skin off the ol’ uvula. The lemon and lime play nicely together, sharing my tastebuds equally. The aftertaste is sticky, but pleasant. It mirrors the initial flavor of the beverage instead of being some fun house mirror version of it. All in all I still enjoy the occasional 7UP and often keep it stocked in my fridge along side the Dr Pepper. Are they the fanciest sodas around? No, of course not, but they hold strong in my own personal culture.
~A
Dirty Girl Skip Orange Cream
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A tattooed young woman (we’ll assume her name is Lydia) stands in front of an American muscle car. That’s the label for my orange cream soda that sits before me. Honestly, it’s what got me to pick it up… well that and the name. Dirty Girl Skip Orange Cream. There’s so much in that name that intrigues me.
Read MoreRamune Lychee
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I don’t know what lychee tastes like. The more worldly fellow in front of me compares it to passionfruit… kind of. Fortunately for me I have a bottle of Ramune Lychee with me today so I can at least expand that horizon. I’ve already been told that this has a good carbonation by the aforementioned fellow, so it at least has that going for it.
Read MoreSprite Tropical Mix
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I was asked years ago what “retired” sodas I would bring back if given the opportunity. My answer was Surge, Crystal Pepsi, and Sprite Tropical Re-mix. Apparently my answer was then run through a series of computers and control groups which found it to be profitable because all of these sodas from my past exist again.
Read MoreDiabolo Tangerine Pomegranate
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Back again with another Diabolo review. You all remember Diabolo, right? It’s the French Soda with cane sugar, erythritol, stevia extract, and vitamins. If you don’t recall Diabolo check out our review of (Name of other Diabolo review) here!
Read MoreTizer
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Another British soda is at my hand today, Tizer. All I know about Tizer is that it has a “Fruit Stripe Gum” look to its can design, is “The Great British Pop”, and only cost 49p. It sweetened with sugar aaaaaand that’s about it. Oh, it also calls itself a “Sparkling Mixed Flavour Soft Drink with Sugar and Sweeteners”. Just gets your mouth watering, doesn’t it?
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