11.09.07
Posted in Soda at 2:02 pm by Cavorter
A friend who knows me well got a four pack of the “treat-sized” Jones Candy Corn soda and brought it in to work for me today. Good thing since I had not been able to find it at my local Target. A couple of notes:
- It is Yellow. (FD&C Yellow no. 5 to be specific)
- It smells exactly like good fresh candy corn.
- It is as or more sweet than candy corn
- It is really yellow.
- The flavor is not quite perfect, but in some ways that’s a good thing since it has some nice orange notes that keep it from being a complete sugar bomb.
- Did I mention “yellow”?
Anyway, fun stuff. Not recomended for daily drinking. Though if you can find some of their other holiday flavor, “Monster Mojito”, buy a case. It’s great stuff and this year’s cane sugar can only have improved it over last year.
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05.03.07
Posted in Soda at 11:00 am by Cavorter
Yesterday was a very good soda day. Jennifer arrived for our usual date night with my birthday present a few days early: A mixed case of The Sopranos soda. (Do follow that link and make sure to watch the commercial, it’s fairly funny. The timing is a bit off but it works.) I’m drinking my first bottle of the Limoncello right now, and it’s pretty good if a touch more sweet than I necessarily like. The good news is that it isn’t a cloying sweet, it’s very clean and finishes exceptionally well. I have a bottle of the Chianti with me at work today as well and I’m hoping it’s at least as good.
After we had a nice walk around the trails at Wood Lake Nature Center and then taking a Kia Rondo out for a test drive we stopped in at the original Chatterbox Pub where I noticed for the first time that they had a “Scratch” Ginger Ale which turned out to be very good. It is definitely a Ginger Ale and not a Ginger Beer since it does go for more of the sweet than the hot and spicy, but it also has a really wonderful clove flavor that adds a lot of depth and character. Very highly recommended.
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12.05.06
Posted in Soda at 3:42 pm by Cavorter
Jones soda is switching to cane sugar in 2007!
(Found on The Soda Pop Blog, who I don’t always quite agree with but most of the relatively small group of people who are covering a topic I am highly interested in are generally worth reading.)
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10.24.06
Posted in Soda at 8:52 am by Cavorter
First things: For anyone who missed it the few times it’s made it’s way around the web there is a very entertaining video produced by EepyBird.com that replicates the (IIRC) Belagio fountain in Las Vegas with Diet Coke and Mentos.
This morning in my inbox is their most recent newsletter mentioning that they’re putting up their latest video this coming Monday (Oct 30, 2006) and like all good carnival barkers and priming the pump by posting a teaser video.
That, in and of itself, wasn’t what I found most interesting. The interesting part is at the very tail end of the video where they are apparently getting some sort of sponsorship from The Coca-Cola Company for some sort of “Poetry In Motion Challenge” that could produce some very interesting entries that I’m looking forward to seeing.
The sponsorship from Coca-Cola is hardly surprising given that judging from the number of Diet Coke/Mentos videos showing up on the equally quickly propagating video sharing sites sales of 2-liter bottles of Diet Coke have got to have received at least a slight boost in sales. Given that Experiment #214 is going to use at least 250 bottles of Diet Coke, I have to wonder if there wasn’t some material help performing the experiment, given that quantity has to be at least a significant proportion of an average Coke delivery truck.
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09.26.06
Posted in Soda at 10:07 am by Cavorter
Just saw on BevNet that GUS has a new flavor: Dry Pomegranate
Given their other great flavors, and the relatively favorable review on BevNet, I hope to see it relatively soon at the local Cost Plus World Market locations.
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09.08.06
Posted in Soda at 12:48 pm by Cavorter
BevNet has a fairly positive review up of a new line of sodas with some fairly interesting flavors: Rhubarb, Lavender, Lemongrass, and Kumquat. The brand is called DRY Soda, and I only wish I could get some locally. With a mixed-case price starting at $25, plus shipping, I think I’m going to have to wait a bit before I get to try it.
I’ve actually been thinking that the people behind Snow would do a fabulous job with lavendar flavored soda.
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06.14.06
Posted in Restaurants, Soda at 10:15 pm by Cavorter
In the last two weeks I’ve run into something a little different at two places that I’ve been for dinner. It appears that both the new Chatterbox Pub location in Highland Park and Signature Cafe in Prospect Park are serving sodas from The Shamrock Group. So far, the cola and the root beer flavors that I have tried are pretty decent, though nothing stellar. It will be interesting to see if I seem them showing up elsewhere around town, I know the original Chatterbox Pub near my home still has Weinhart’s for their root beer.
And while I’m thinking about it, do give the Signature Cafe a try if you have the chance. It’s got a very interesting and varied menu and a staff that is… well, friendly doesn’t begin to describe it.
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05.25.06
Posted in Food, Soda at 8:54 am by Cavorter
BevNet’s new BevBlog has a theory on energy drink flavors that has more than an inkling of truth to it.
I personally can’t stand any of the “energy” drinks that I’ve ever tried and basically have just given up on them entirely. Besides, they almost all have too much caffeine for any normal human, much less for those of us who have dropped it completely.
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04.28.06
Posted in Soda at 2:20 am by Cavorter
Something interesting from comparing the bottles I have on my desk right at this moment:
| Soda |
OZ |
Calories |
Sugar |
| Berries & Cream Dr. Pepper |
20 |
250 |
65g |
| Bundaberg Australian Ginger Beer |
12.7 |
170 |
40g |
| Snow |
12 |
112.5 |
25.5 |
| White Rock Organics |
12 |
120 |
30 |
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Posted in Soda at 2:02 am by Cavorter
Target’s Archer Farms line of food products now has a “premium” soda available, at least in the Twin Cities market. I saw 4 flavors today at a non-SuperTarget close to work: Sarsparilla, Ginger Beer, Strawberry Creme, and Diet Peach. I picked up a 4pack of all but the Diet and should have had a chance to taste all of them by the weekend. The ingredients do list sugar instead of HFCS, so I have some hope that it might be at least drinkable and if it’s done by the same people who make their “Italian Soda” line of beverages there’s a strong chance there will be at least one good flavor in there.
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