Ginger

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 …

Medium sweet. Natural ginger is offset slightly by the sweetener blend in an odd way. Not bad odd, but definitely odd. Almost comes across as minty? Minimal fire. Ok. Purchased from Snackmagic

Quite sweet. Light natural ginger start without any fire. Subtle fruit shows in the middle, complimenting the ginger without overpowering it. Not as acidic as you'd expect from natural pineapple. Overall really well integrated. Recommended. Purchased from Snackmagic

Medium sweet. Some beverages really straddle the line between juice, soda, or whatever and this is a perfectly good example. It would be easy to categorize this with their competitor down the coast but this comes across less as a soda than as a juice, justifying the label of "ginger beverage". Raw ginger is …

Quite sweet. Definitely ginger, but a fairly light natural flavor without any fire. Slightly peppery. Maybe a little bit too similar to Canada Dry? Ok. Purchased from United Sodas of America

Quite sweet. Sharp natural ginger start joins with an interestingly tart fruit flavor that isn't quite like anything I've tried before. Something like a less-sweet tamarind? Hints of bitterness around the edges add to the herbal depth of an already complicated brew. Fruit diminishes quickly in the moderately long …

Not sweet. Natural ginger suffused with complex bitter and earthy flavors present a challenge to anyone who read the label text and expected something different from the use of the term "ginger beer". The bitterness, which I suspect is from the dandelion root, is very present but also not overpowering. More …

Medium sweet. I debated quite a bit before deciding on medium for the sweetness. On first sip the lime is very prominent, and strong enough to come across as artificial despite all of the packaging and website text protests to the contrary. I could find the ginger if I looked for it, as it mostly is expressed by a …

Medium sweet. Nicely off-dry where a good portion of the sweetness is provided by the flavor rather than actual sugars. Light ginger manages to accentuate tannins from the tea while the elderberry provides some fruit and floral complexity on top but unfortunately never quite manages to blend between the two layers. Ok. …

Medium sweet. An initial burst of flavor has both tea and cranberry melted around a lightly tannic core with faint hints of ginger emerging through the finish. Just enough cranberry in the start to give a little pucker. The finish can come off a bit like sweetarts candy, which is a little disappointing but mostly fine. …

Very sweet. Fascinating nose. A waft smells like typical Mountain Dew while a sniff smells like gingerbread. The flavor has a similar dichotomy with a clear, and fairly decent, gingerbread cookie flavor followed with the classic Mountain Dew finish. Altogether somewhat unexpected, certainly an odd combination, and not …

Slightly sweet. Natural ginger along with a kind of non-specific citrus burst with some fire and hints of turmeric through to the finish where the ginger tails off first. Very long, very muddled end is pretty unsatisfying. Ok. Purchased at Tim and Tom's Speedy Market.

Slightly sweet. Grapefruit start segues to juniper with very slight ginger fire kindled near the finish, building to a respectable fire. Quite bitter in the very long finish. Complicated and I think not quite my thing, as much as I normally like conifers in my soft drinks. Ok. Purchased at Tim and Tom's Speedy Market.

Very sweet. Huge and soft spearmint from the start through the medium length finish. The ginger very faintly hovers through it all as well, but more as a ghost of an extremely mild ginger ale or even lemon-lime tone than as anything even remotely substantial. Ok. Purchased from Blue Sun Soda Shop (Spring Lake Park)

Medium sweet. Extremely mild tingle along with fresh ginger flavor that blends very well with extremely subtle citrus tones that are present. A slightly complicated sparkling ginger lemonade. Ok. Purchased at Tim and Tom's Speedy Market.

Slightly sweet. Intense fruit on the nose but subtle on the tongue to start followed by an extremely mild ginger prickle. Interesting umami undertones grow in the middle and last into the fairly pleasant finish. Apparently uses an herbal tea base from māmaki leaves (Pipturus albidus). Recommended. Received from Try The …

Medium sweet. Slight fire. Very pleasant ginger/lemon with hints of wood and grass. Moderately chunky with nice aloe niblets. Recommended. Received from Try The World Snack Box

Very sweet. Medium fire. Starts with fairly intense classic "green apple" flavors with subtle tartness that blends well with the rising complex ginger. Apple overpowers ginger in the lingering finish. Recommended. Originally posted to Twitter.

Very sweet. Peach hits first with a neighborly facsimile to the real fruit followed by medium fire and nice ginger close after. Pretty sticky finish, though not entirely unpleasant. Ok. Originally posted to Twitter.

Medium sweet. Bright natural Lemonade tones in the start clad a ginger and soft vinegar core that grows as it warms. Medium fire. Maple is present though muted. Slightly bitter natural ginger finish. Recommended. Originally posted to Twitter.

Medium sweet. Slight fire. Still. Light apple cider well blended with mild vinegar. Quite round in the mouth. Medium finish, fairly clean and pleasant. Recommended. Originally posted to Twitter.

Quite sweet. Fairly fiery. Classic natural ginger flavors with more lemon than most similar sodas, especially in the nose. Very clean sugar. Extended but nice finish. Recommended. Originally posted to Twitter.

Medium sweet. Surprisingly strong turmeric, though not overpowering, blends well in the vinegar though compromises some of the honey tones. Slight fire. Interesting extended finish. Ok. Originally posted to Twitter.

Medium sweet. Pretty classic vinegar/honey switchel flavors to start with lightly building fire. Cayenne doesn't seem to add much that the ginger wasn't already doing, though maybe slightly more fire? OK. Originally posted to Twitter.

Medium sweet. Slight fire. Between fragrant cinnamon and enveloping cider vinegar the totality comes across almost as lightly sour liquid apple pie, along with a nearly buttery finish. Honey in the nose not the bottle. Recommended. Originally posted to Twitter.

Quite sweet. No fire. Plenty of fruit blended well with ginger and citrus. Sits on the palate for awhile, but pleasantly. Ok. Originally posted to Twitter.

Not sweet. Slightly tart start brightens to fruit and floral middle over an earthy herbal tannic center. Peach flavors bloom in extended finish. Promised ginger is barely present initially but builds some with repeated sips. Ok. Originally posted to Twitter.

Very sweet. Light fire. Despite redolent aroma of Yankee Candles, clove and cinnamon flavors manage to supplement usual depth of flavor without overpowering. Ok. Originally posted to Twitter.

Medium sweet. Difficult to categorize with strong rep from both soda and drinking vinegar roots. Very light ginger fire. Oddly balanced but successful. Recommended. Originally posted to Twitter.

Quite sweet. Slight fire. Strong natural ginger with tea undertones. Finishes with odd sweet notes. Ok. Originally posted to Twitter.