Last week I wrote about my quest for a strong ginger beer, one that could clear the sinuses, and I think I found one. Q Mixers makes the high-priced beverage above, specifically for making drinks like Moscow Mules. Here's how they describe their ginger beer:
"Other ginger beers try to be both a spicy soda and a mixer. So they end up doing neither well. Q Ginger Beer is a mixer and a mixer only – it is spicier, more carbonated and less sweet. It is exactly what your vodka, rum, or whiskey is looking for."
Q Mixers also makes an elderflower tonic water, which I expect is low on the badass scale, but if I ever see it I have to try that too.
On the other end of the li'l drinkie spectrum is Nature's Promise, the all-natural house brand for Giant and Stop and Shop stores, which to my surprise is selling seltzer to children.
Aren't these little cans just adorbs? Squee!
I like seltzer, including the flavored ones that have become popular, but I never expected to see it marketed to kids. It comes in a variety of flavors, but Bubble Gum seemed the most childlike to me, so I had to buy it.
Verdict: It's good. Yes, it's a bit odd to drink bubble gum flavoring, but the flavor is the real thing. My wife said it was just like the Bazooka gum she remembers chewing, which always seemed to make the gum flavor go up into her nose. I think I know what she meant. It reminded me of that gum that came with Topps cards until 1992. No surprise, actually, since Topps makes Bazooka. (It did get me wondering if a ginger beer chewing gum was what I need for sinus-clearing....)
I'm not sure if the kiddie seltzer will appeal to children, but if it gets them drinking water and not soda or juice, that's probably for the better. Save the teeth for the Bazooka.
So those are the peewee potables I'm enjoying this Labor Day weekend; how about you?
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Happy Labour Day, Fred. Let's see, for holiday weekend potables I've had (so far) coffee, a Voodoo Ranger Imperial IPA, seltzer water (plain, no flavoring), diet Coke, a protein shake, and various wines at a wedding reception we attended. The bride works at the vineyard, so the varieties were many, and the amounts copious. I was good and did not overdo it, which helped in driving home in the dark through a line of thunderstorms on I-81. Boy, was that not fun! I had a jot if Irish whiskey to celebrate our safe return and steady my frazzled nerves.
Yipes! I remember driving eighty miles alone through Florida in a storm like that, trying to catch a plane; it was terrifying. I gripped the wheel and sung along with the radio. To this day "Katmandu" brings that night right back to me.
I did make the flight, and I'm pretty sure I made time for a stiff drink before I got on it.
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