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Hi Bru, I'm Gonzako
For a pun like that you definitely need to try some Irn Bru as pennance!
Sure! I'll send ya my post office and ya can mail me some at my name
The one and only Cockta!
Does Apfelshorle count?
Fritzkola is german
Rivella - Swizz soda Trocadero,. Zingo, champis, pommac, julmust, Loranga, Sockerdricka, Cuba Cola- Swedish soda.
Trocadero and julmust feels pretty unique
Trocadero mentioned!!!!
The MVP of sodas. Still sad they they stopped making the soda bottle sour candies
I'm a big fan of Fritz-cola, and they have plenty of other sodas as well. Don't know how easy it is to find though
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Orangina is the first that comes to mind. Almost definitively French
Orangina is owned by Suntory Holdings. Suntory is a Japanese brewing company. While not American it is not European either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suntory
Noooooo! My world is a lie
- afri cola
- club mate
- Deit
- Gerri
- Sinalco
- RedBull
- Paulaner (They make my fav Spezi)
These are the ones I know and have tasted myself. My favorites would be Gerri who make my favorite orange lemonade by far, and Paulaner Spezi.
I donโt drink energy drinks often but RedBull tastes muuuch better than Monster to the point that the latter makes me nauseated.
Afri Cola is one that I donโt like but itโs an option and not completely horrible.
Club Mate!!! Just don't drink too many
I like Fritz though Iโm not sure itโs available outside of Germany
It's available in Paris and Amsterdam as well.
On my last bike tour of the Netherlands and Belgium I couldnโt find it but in my defense there was lots of cheese
It's available in some places in NL, like bigger Albert Heijn supermarkets and some cafes, but not too many.
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Not a classic soda, but refreshing anyways: Bionade
Tirola Kola from Austria
Many countries have their own brands. Where are you at?
Breizh Cola is a nice exact equivalent: https://www.breizhcola.bzh/
My preference goes for tap water obviously but alternatively I just use an organic concentrated soda juice (such https://www.bigallet.fr/produit/sirop-de-cola-bio/ ).
I do recommend a well unknown soda from Denmark... you might never taste it, but its great. Maybe one of the greatest sodas of eu?
I've tried the Cola but I didn't like it; it tasted too much like candy
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Shout out to Why Not, organic craft sodas from Portugal
Fritz!Kola straight from my hometown Hamburg :D
Sumol is a portuguese brand
I recently got a machine for adding bubbles to water. Cost me 10 โฌ used, including an empty COโ bottle which I can change for a full one at any hypermarket by paying 7 โฌ for the content (which enbubblifies a 1-litre bottle about 60 times, they promise).
And then I can mix that with some lemonade concentrate to get cola or sprite or orange lemonade or whatever. Or I can just put a lemon juice on the bottom of the glass, add a little bit more sugar than that amount, and then pour that water with bubbles atop it.
Works like charm and has the added bonus that I don't need to lug full bottles of lemonade in my backpack to my district that is located unfairly on top of a very mean hill. I can always make just the amount of lemonade I really want, and I can have one glass of this taste and one glass of that. Any juice concentrate works for adding the taste. I found orange juice concentrate that has simply "orange" as its ingredients and makes much tastier lemonade than anything I could buy from the shop.
Plus, the mark's own cola concentrate is tasty.
And obviously you can always just buy water with bubbles. But then you'll have to lug it around, which kind of meh. It weighs.
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I switched to tap water. Better for my health, better for the environment and better for my wallet.
Irn-Bru
It's better to drink kvass and non-alcoholic beer from your local brewery.
or juice
I maintain that the best sugar-free cola you can buy is Freeway XL, the in-house brand at Lidl. Way better than Pepsi Max or Coke Zero.
MoleCola, from Turin, Italy. You can find it at Eataly shops.
Good question! I've been searching a few minutes for Spanish brands and everything seems to have been bought or is distributed by cocacola, pepsico or suntory.
How many levels are in this industry? What a mess? There are brands, producers, bottlers, distributors and everything seems to be mixed.
Sinalco, Spezi (different brands..) and Vita Cola from Germany.
The easiest way: go to the nearest supermarket and take a bottle with a name you never heard of. Just read the label too. You can easily expect that local supermarket will have more local brands and they will be cheaper. Approach with looking for the complete list of European manufacturers and then searching for concrete names according to that list looks too tedious and overcomplicated.
My big trick over the past few years is make my own. So just squeeze a lime into a glass, drop of cordial and add sparkling water.
Now Iโm ready to buy one of the machines, with refillable gas canisters. And not feel guilty about all the plastic bottles.
Fresh ginger, or apple juice is also a good mixer
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