Nixie

Medium sweet. Slight fire. Fresh ginger nose presages a lightly sweetened fresh ginger flavor. Some notes of lime bloom in the middle. As with the other Nixie sodas, the sweetener maintains a slightly odd hollowness to the entire presentation, though less so in the case and overall it is much closer to working here …

Very sweet. If you have read the Nixie Cola review, some of this is going to sound pretty familiar, but I think this one is generally better executed. The initial taste is intense and very sweet, but nearly instantly hollows out. However in this case a good wintergreen remains present enough through the middle to …

Very sweet. Except when it's only slightly sweet? I've had similar experiences with stevia sweetened sodas previously, but this one is a particuarly dramatic example of the type. The start is abrupt and intense with some well defined cola, but nearly instantly that intensity evaporates. What is left feels a bit like …