Event #5 Sodas

For event #5 we tested different sodas from around the world.  We tested 10 different sodas from 7 countries.  We broke the testing up into 2 days of testing 5 at a time.  Day 1 consisted of the cans which was all the citrus sodas that all happened to be from Europe.  Day 2 was the 5 remaining sodas all in glass bottles.

Day 1

Austria:  Almdudler Soda

This one was not the best. It had a slight lemonade flavor and strange taste and looked like ginger ale

              

Austria:  Fanta Orange Soda

This was a decent soda with a good orange flavor, but more like real orange juice unlike some other orange sodas.

           

Austria:  Mezzo Mix Soda

This tasted like Cola with a slight orange flavor.  This one was not really very good.

              

Germany:  Paulaner Spezi  Soda

This one had an orange, lemon, and cola flavor.  It had a weird taste and was, not the best.  Definitely the worst soda of day 1.

 

Bronze Italy:  Italian Soda, Blood Orange

This soda was from Whole Foods it was a very good soda with good blood orange flavor, the clear favorite of day 1.

 

 Day 2

Japan:  Hatakosen Raspberry Ramune Soda

This had a decent raspberry flavor that made for an okay soda. It also had the most interesting bottle that had a marble inside.

 

Gold Mexico: Jarritos Mango

We bought this at a local Mexican restaurant Mi Tierra.  I’ve seen these at Mexican restaurants but had never tried them before.  This was a very good soda and had a very good mango flavor.        

Mexico: Sidral  Mundet   Apple

We also bought this at Mi Tierra.  I didn’t like it very much.  It had an apple flavor, but I thought it tasted a little funny.  Everyone else liked it more than I did.     

 

UK:  Fentimans Cherry  Cola

This one we all thought was awful, I at first got just a cherry cola taste but soon after it tasted like potpourri smells.

              

Gold US:  Boylan’s Crème Soda

This was just a really good crème soda and definitely a winner

 

After 2 days of testing, we finished with a tie for the gold medal between the US and Mexico with Italy winning the bronze medal.