Weird Soda A-Fizz-Cionado

I kind of have a thing for weird soda, so the other day when James and I were in desperate need of a five dollar date we went up to Pasadena and visited Rocket Fizz Soda shop.

Let me assure you, this weird soda aficionado was greatly pleased.

They had quite the selection of Avery’s.  I was attracted to the simple packaging of the classic flavors, but they also produce a line of hilarious crowd-pleasers like Kitty Piddle, Zombie Brain Juice, Dog Drool, etc. 

We chose these:

I tried Avery’s Birch Beer.  Birch beer tastes like a combination between cream soda and root beer.  It’s very sweet, but with a little bit of that medicinal earthy undertone.  I give it a firm pinkie up, “pinkie up” since this is a fancy soda review and all and I should probably use some damn proper etiquette or at least pretend I wasn’t raised in a barn.  I think a little less sweetness would bring that up to two pinkies for me. The sugar is a bit overpowering to the delicious birch flavor.

Next, I convinced James to get the Buffalo Wing Soda, by Lester’s Fixins.  And we scored bigtime.

Imagine an Orange Crush, but with a subtle tang on the top note.  If you’ve ever had ketchup chips, that sort of spicy-sweet combination came to mind.  I could also get a subtle burst of the tomato flavor as the taste left my mouth.  It was spicy, but in this case I thought the sugar level was quite complimentary.  The sweetness cooled it off from being unpleasant.  Two firm pinkies up, if just for making Buffalo Wing flavor in a soda not vomit-inducing.

Tune in next time as I further develop my love of strange pop. Until then, stay bubbly. And brush your teeth.