Berry

Medium sweet. Sweet berry start quickly develops a bitter herbal core. Some light tartness adds even more complexity in the middle. Medium length finish is full of raspberry. Honestly one of the more difficult sodas to describe. Recommended Purchased at Tim and Tom's Speedy Market.

Very sweet. Candy start becomes candy middle becomes candy finish, but at least it's consistent. The orange is slightly more insistently present while the raspberry is definitely more of a "blue raspberry" than anything like the actual fruit. Finish is somewhat long but not terrible. Ok.

Very sweet. Certainly "fruity" though oddly non-specific. Surprisingly nice finish considering the start. The artificial sweetener mix fails to meld with the flavors and ends up just confusing an already jumbled impression. Pass Purchased at Target

Very sweet. Opening the bottle fills the air with the scent of red fruit. The raspberry is very apparant before even taking a taste, but the "spice" component is essentially missing from the nose until you get close to the liquid. The start is fruit tinged cola with much more prominent clove and cinnamon. …

Medium sweet. Where the sweetness in the Oatmeal Dark was kind of off-putting, in this Raspberry Gose it makes a lot more sense. Also there is just enough of a tartness to bring down the perceived sweetness to something much more expected from something that also has plenty of fruit going on. Speaking of which, plenty …

Very sweet. Fruity start with a tiny bit of a cola backbone. I suspect that most people will be pretty confused by that fruit start given the prominent "Marshmallow" branding, but it is properly labelled that the collaborating artist is Marshmallow and the actual flavor is intended as watermelon, strawberry, …

Slightly sweet. Resin, black pepper, and a little bit of wood are the primary flavors. Slightly tangy. Comes across as quite herbal despite being derived from a fruit. Medium finish tastes like the best parts of a tea shop. Recommended. Purchased from Woodlake Market

Slightly sweet. As usual with Wave the listed fruit flavor is mostly in the nose. Starts somewhat generically fruit-like with a subtle but detectable apple flavor that never quite goes away. Blackberry is present in the middle and fairly long end, giving a very slight tang that adds some depth. Ok. Purchased from Wave …

Very sweet. Pretty sharp start that is more lemon by feel than by flavor. Quick transition to pretty natural strawberry in the middle with a substantial bloom. Lemon finally shows up some in the medium-long finish, though still dominated by the berry. Ok. Purchased at the Saint Paul Midway Menard's

Very sweet. Fairly sharp citrus start adds decent, nearly natural, berry fairly quickly. The blueberry and lemon never quite meld, but coexist fairly nicely. Finish is somewhat long and fine, if a bit candy-ish. Ok. Purchased at the Saint Paul Midway Menard's

Currently in limited release to Circle K and affiliated stores in North America. Very sweet. Possibly the best color for a soda I've ever seen. It's this really lovely jewel-toned blue shading just a bit into purple. Really gorgeous. Strong berry start establishes itself well, blooms nicely in the middle, and catches a …

Slightly sweet. Plenty of blueberry in the nose. Flavor is more fructose than fruit. There is fruit there, but not something really specific on the tongue. It's nearly all in the nose. Medium long finish finally shows some really lovely natural fruit in the moments before it trails off. Ok. Purchased from Wave Soda

Very sweet. It's interesting to contrast this against the non-sparkling version that I reviewed earlier today. The start is considerably more sharp, featuring the lemon quite a bit more with the raspberry much less prominent throughout. The candy tones present in the still version is also much less prominent in the the …

Very sweet. Pretty good blend of lemon and raspberry turns out to probably be the best of the four varieties in this line. Somewhat sharp but not quite tart, and certainly not sour. The raspberry is most prominent in the middle, with lemon start and end. The whole thing has a bit of a candy-like sweetness that detracts …

Very sweet. Acidity and light tang from a pretty classic lemonade are mostly subsumed by blueberry flavor that might just be on the wrong side of the uncanny valley. Hard to tell if that's from the added flavors or possibly an interaction with the preservatives. I want to like it a lot, but it just keeps on not being …

Very sweet. Fresh strawberry works pretty well with the lemonade base, blunting the acidity a bit. Fruit really blooms in the middle before getting lost in a fairly muddled medium-length finish. Ok. Purchased at the Saint Paul Midway Menard's.

Medium sweet. The fruit starts present but not strong with possibly the vanilla being slightly more prominent. A bit more fruit in the middle and extended finish. Another really good example of their novel sweetener working really well with the flavors but the whole thing comes across somewhat muted. Ok. Purchased from …

I have to be honest: I did stay up late and ordered my box as soon as they went on sale. Turns out I probably didn't have to be quite so diligent. It was fun to at least feel like I was getting in early on something even if I didn't get to trying it until today. It should be noted that the packaging is great. …

Slightly sweet. Interesting start is both sweet and slightly bitter before the full tones of both the fruit and the earthy matcha open up in the middle. Flavors definitely meld well and provide quite a complicated and well structured palate. Finish is long and features the matcha more than anything. Ok. Purchased from …

Very sweet, though bordering on Sugarbomb. So much more floral than I was expecting. The flavor is an odd, but not unpleasant, mix between natural apple, lychee, and artifical blueberry. Hits strongly floral at the start, moving through the fruits in the middle and end, then resolving into a lightly floral very long …

Very sweet. Nicely sharp acid without being overpowering provides a good backdrop for nice lemon flavors. Hints of maybe a berry-ish fruit make vague appearances, but if the word "strawberry" wasn't on the label I'm not sure I would have noticed. Extended and nicely complicated lemon finish. Purchased at FYE …

Not sweet. It is interesting to note that the label lists both My Private Label and Ginseng UP, which gives some idea where some of their formulations are being sourced. Just opening the bottle releases very fragrant artificial strawberry, with the actual flavor a pretty close match. Stays fragrant in the mouth all the …

Medium sweet. I am conflicted. Unlike the Sour Blueberry this one is much closer to the flavor of the natural fruit. At the same time it's also kind of a generic "berry" flavor. It would be nice if I had another can of the blueberry so I could do a blind tasting because I'm really not sure I could tell the …

Medium sweet. Perhaps slightly tart, but hardly sour. Plenty of fruit, and I suppose it is vaguely blueberry like. Certainly blue and berry anyway. This is not to say it's bad. It's just... fine? Short finish. Ok. Purchased from United Sodas of America

Medium sweet. Fruit and basil start has a little bit of white pepper. The fruit is pretty close to natural, though more like the huge and slightly bland strawberries from the grocery store than the intensely flavored wild varieties. In a lot of ways that's kind of how the soda is flavored: laid back and not intense. …

Medium sweet. Superficially I can see why they call this cranberry but I find it lacking in the character of the real fruit, though no more than the usual way so many artificial and "natural" fruit flavors only vaguely resemble the real thing. That said, it is a nice cranberry-adjacent berry flavor and even …

Very sweet. Kind of an interesting blend between a lemon-lime and strawberry soda. Neither side really takes precedence but neither do they quite blend fully either. Would probably be better with 1/2 the sugar. Oddly long citrus-like finish. Ok. Purchased from Blue Sun Soda Shop (Spring Lake Park)

Very sweet. Starts with sharp lemon and pretty quickly gains nice raspberry. The sweetener blend appears fairly quickly afterward, seeping in slowly at first and eventually resolving to an ever present candy presence in the mouth. The main flavors fade fairly quickly in the finish, but the sweetener blend lingers. The …

Very sweet. Candied slightly-generic berry flavor is pretty straight forward and unambiguious. Has just a touch of depth in the middle with a hint of black pepper. Narrowly avoids being syrupy but also steers well clear of any semblence of actual fruit. Surprisingly good and relatively short finish. Very close to being …

Medium sweet. Strong, fresh raspberry start with just enough tartness. Similar to the Strawbery Lemon flavor, I suspect the pleasant pucker is coming from the vinegar instead of the fruit but here it is much more successful and extremely well integrated. Floral notes arrive eventually if you look for them and, …