Mine is the Orange Cream Coke Zero. I’ll be devastated when they inevitably discontinue it.
Monster Reverse Orange Dreamsicle. Worth every calorie and the liver damage.
Zevia. For those not in the loop, it’s a beverage brand specializing in refgined sugar-free drinks. They were started with just soda, but have gone on to make other things.
Oh, and for the Orange Cream, they apparently have an Orange Creamsicle flavor, but if you have a nearby Sprouts, you can get it there.
Zevia sodas consist of just carbonated water, stevia, natural flavors, and sometimes citric acid and caffeine for a few of their flavors.
My favorite now are home fermented, kvass, tepache, ginger beer. Tepache my favorite of those.
Coke Zero, I try not to buy it much but still really like it.
Barqs red creme soda, or birch beer
Vanilla Cola. I don’t buy American soda anymore but Coca Cola…I haven’t found any of the Vanilla variant in a couple years now anyways.
Vanilla coke is the bomb and I’ll be forever resentful that they made it so scarce. There was a brief moment where it came back for me, but it’s gone again now.
I still drink it tho (as a zero cal) since it’s basically just Cola of your choice mixed 50/50 with a clear cream soda.
Bondi Cola from Australia.
No longer produced, contained ginseng, and named after Australia’s most famous beach Bondi (bon - dye).
NOS.
The only thing I hate about it is the price. This shit is expensive (like $5/can) 😩
Creme Soda. Oddly enough the cheapest ones seem to be the best in my opinion.
Root beer. It’s insidious.
Birch beer, followed by Dr. Pepper and the cranberry ginger ale.
Belvoir Rose & Elderflower Cordial, I love floral flavors and it’s so interesting and complex. It’s perfect watered down on a hot summer day or mixed with some white wine and ice and I’ve never seen anything else like it for sale. Unfortunately, hard to come by where I live.
I like ginger, so I also enjoy Reed’s Extra Ginger Ale. Most commercially available ginger ales don’t have much or any actual ginger in them, and use artificial flavorings, but Reeds is legit and seriously gingery.
For a go-to soda to have on a regular basis I like Ollipop low sugar sodas, especially their ginger lemon flavor.
Baking
I like to get the ones with “cane sugar” not corn syrup, otherwise its root beer - probably the only one I’m not too picky about brand.
Ginger beer. It’s a great drink, and it’s helpful if you have a tummy ache.
https://www.manhattanspecial.com/
Manhattan Special Espresso soda. The original energy drink. Three bottles will give you palpitations.
I love Moxie, but it’s a regional thing from Maine and it’s rather rare here in the bible belt.
As a mix drink, 1 part gin, 1 part jager, 1 part amaretto, 2 marachino cherries, and 6 parts moxie, wide glass on the rocks. It’s like drinking the holiday season in a snowy evergreen forest.
