Jelly Belly Tangerine – 6

Jelly Belly Tangerine – 6 thumbs up

This soda has a strong tangerine flavor but definitely tastes artificial.  It's worth a try, especially if you like a nice consistent orange coloring.  It tastes, as intended, like the jelly bean flavor.  Thank you to Brian Donovan for picking this up for me!

Cream My People - 6

Cream My People - 6 thumbs up

It's not every day that you drink a soda featuring Muammar Gaddafi.  I'm just glad that it was made making light of his time in power and not one of his demise.  The soda was very sugary with a strong caramel taste.  It isn't really a cream soda.  As far as novelty sodas go, you could do a lot worse.

Kazouza Lime Pomegranate - 6

Kazouza Lime Pomegranate  - 6 thumbs up!

Nice and refreshing.  Not sugary and not a bad fruit flavor. The best part about the soda is the color!  Such a nice red.

Avery's Raspberry Seltzer - 6

Avery's Raspberry Seltzer
Not bad from Avery's.  It's more seltzer than raspberry, which is both good and surprising.  Normally a soda company goes overboard on flavor. This does not.  Not too bad!

Nichol Kola - 6

This is a decent cola, but unfortunately doesn't match up against Coca Cola. It was a good try, though. Thank you Cost-Plus.

Trader Joes Vintage Cola - 6 thumbs up

Trader Joes Vintage Cola is not bad but tastes like a diet soda. Just so-so. I expect more from you, Trader Joes. Get on it.

Asoleado Guarana - 6 thumbs up

Asoleado Guarana from New York.
When you have guarana in your soda and guarana in your name, one might expect guarana in the flavor and kick. This soda has none of that. It has a mild guarana flavor but is a generally weak soda.

Waialua Pineapple - 6 thumbs up

Waialua Pineapple - definitely a pineapple flavor but a bit too acidic for my preference. Thank you to Brian Donovan for the hook-up!

Napa Valley Vanilla Creme - 6

A beautiful golden color. This soda smells nice as well. Those are about all of the positive aspects of the soda, though. It gets lower points for the sticker label – stuck on the glass instead of regular print-on-glass silk screen. Also, the soda is way too sugary. It's drinkable, so 6 thumbs up, but not one I need to rush back for.

Avery's Monster Mucus - 6

Avery's Monster Mucus
Not a bad soda by any means. Big points for the name, but really it's just a raspberry soda with organge. It reminds me of the questionmark dumdum lollipops. You taste the raspberry but not the organge from my experience. Great color on this!

Virgin Cherry Lee Black Cherry Cola

Virgin Cherry Lee Black Cherry Cola : 4/22/2006: Decent cherry cola taste, but a little too mediciny. Nice gray bottle, though. I would find something different the next time I tried for a cherry cola.

Vimto

Vimto : 2/16/2004: Vimto fruit flavor drink is from Syria and it is very sweet. Perhaps too sweet. It is a berry soda that isn't bad. Its sweetness drowns out the berry flavor, though.

Victoria Naranja

Victoria Naranja : 1/15/2004: This nice orange drink is a little stronger and syrupy than your normal orange crush. It's a little too syrupy for my tastes, but good none the less. 6 thumbs up. Exrta points for the various bumps on its uniquely bumpy bottle.

Thin Coca-Cola

Thin Coca-Cola : 7/1/2003: This is the regular coke classic which gets 6 thumbs up. I really like this thin can, though! It's cool, like a redbull, except inside is the regular coke. CocaCola would have been smarter to market an all-syrup energy drink in this instead. Thanks to Lisa Zhao for the drink!

Mike Shinn Rating: 6 Average User Rating: 4 Kevin Koontz Rating: 4     - As a fan of Coke I don't understand. This wasn't nearly enough for me to drink.

Sun Drop

Sun Drop : 3/14/2004: Lindsay loves it. I think it’s okay. It's easy on the syrup, which is good for a lemon-lime soda. Too many lemon-lime sodas now days are too thick and gross. This one gets it right, but is otherwise not particularly special. 6 thumbs up.

Mike Shinn Rating: 6 Average User Rating: 9 Lindsay Stevenson Rating: 9     - I love this soda!

Southern Swirl Orange Cream

Southern Swirl Orange Cream : 5/29/2004: This tastes like a slightly milder version of Sprecher Orange. It's okay, but not fantastic. 6 thumbs up. Just not entirely impressive orange taste. A bit too sugary for my tastes without offering a kick.

Solo AppleJ

Solo AppleJ : 1/26/2005: This soda from Trinidad (Thanks Alicia!) tastes a lot like apple juice. In fact, it's 22% apple juice. More accurately, it would be apple Jooose - it has a nice carbonated fizz to it. 6 thumbs up!

Soho Natural Cola

Soho Natural Cola : 9/23/2005: This cola isn't really that special, as far as colas go. It's got a nice size to the can, but compared to the root beer, this is too plain. It's a decent cola but nothing much in the way of zing.

Sioux City Cream Soda

Sioux City Cream Soda : 3/24/2003: Watery. I'd give it about a 6 out of 10. It wasn't bad, per se, but there wasn't much more to it than water. It gets points due to the bottle being both custom pressed and silkscreened. The taste is outdone regularly, though.

Sioux City Berry Berry

Sioux City Berry Berry : 3/14/2007: By Berry Berry, I assumed Sioux City meant that it was Very Berry and playing on words. Now I think that they may have just used two berries worth of flavor per bottle. Just a little too fake and sugary.