Thread: quality soda pop

Originally Posted by Ogershok

Another Moxie fan here. The absolutely unique taste is worth the trouble to get. Only if you like it though. It's a love it or hate it drink for sure.

Is it tough to find out your way? I used to pick it up anywhere that sold soda up in MA but the last few times I've been up to the cottage it's been hella hard to find.
Also, the July or August issue of Yankee had a big spread about it on the back page.

Originally Posted by MickR

Ginger ale is a carbonated softdrink and ginger beer is a brewed (soft)drink, neither necessarily alcoholic, but a homebrewed ginger beer is more than likely alcoholic to one degree or another (but still doesn't have to be). I've made a few not-for-kids ones myself.


Mick

While that has recently become true in the terms of the commercial economy we now exist in; it has little to do with the origins of the product.
All of my recipes are as old or older than most of my razors. I am picky about what is considered a soda or a soft beer.
In tradition ginger ale is only one form of a soft beer in a category known as ginger beer. While the brewing process is generally considered only the portion of where the starter or syrup is produced others would consider fermentation as an elemental component of the process.
The non-alcoholic versions are generally made with either a mixture of syrup or starter and either carbonated water, carbonation tablets (basically like alkaseltzer) or forced carbonation using a carbon pump or carbon dioxide cartridges like those used for bicycles. When true soft drinks were invented and much more common than they are now it was far from uncommon to see them brewing starters and pumping carbon dioxide from cartridges than it was to utilize a system created by nature and harvested by brewer's for an uncountable number of years.
So, if by the standards of modern and localized symantics and the acceptance of modern near flavorless sodas are embraced than I cannot account for the differences here. What I can hope is that no one takes offence for my standing by my statement and sitting here enjoying a true ginger ale I made recently with a small, but noticeable alcoholic content gifted to me and a kick that would turn a salt to a soprano.

Originally Posted by MickR

Ginger ale is a carbonated softdrink and ginger beer is a brewed (soft)drink, neither necessarily alcoholic, but a homebrewed ginger beer is more than likely alcoholic to one degree or another (but still doesn't have to be). I've made a few not-for-kids ones myself.


Mick

I really need to learn how to make my own. I love ginger. And currently have my first ever batch of rootbeer sitting in the pantry fermenting.

Originally Posted by ChesterCopperpot

I've not lived in this city long enough to know where it could be found, this was my experience in Chicago. I'm not sure if there are enough religious Jews in Indianapolis to justify the legendary Jewish Passover Coke.

there's a good number here... up on the north side of town (6500 meridian St.) there's a temple, and there's another temple somewhere on the north east side where they all live in walking distance so they don't have to drive on the sabbath. Most of the Jews around here are messianic, so I don't know if they follow Kosher or not.

As for Moxie, I've never had it straight, just mixed with liqour, so I don't know what its like.

The best we can get here is Jones, there used to be a quality soda shop in St Louis that was amazing I used to buy a couple of build your own six packs usually filled with flathead. Unfortunately it's been closed for over a year.

Soda for me. Here in Ga everything is Coke though. I try to not drink soda, but when I do it is Sprite or root beer. My Dad brews his own beer and one year he made root beer for me that was real good. It had some serious bite. Anyone like A-Treat from Allentown PA? I grew up on that stuff living in North NJ. Just had a neighbor of my Dad's go back to NJ and she brought back some A-Treat. It was nice. It is considered cheap soda though.

Like the Australians in New Zealand we tend to refer to "soft drinks" by their commercial name rather than soda or pop. Kids might understand the concept of soda depending on how much American TV they watch.
Soda here would be a shortened term for Soda Water which is simply carbonated, unflavoured water.
A Coke is made by Coca-Cola and certainly not something to be confused with Pepsi.

Sprite / 7-Up and similar products are collectively known as lemonade.... something that made ordering mixed drinks in an American bar and interesting experience.
They thought I was mad when I asked for "vodka, lime & lemonade" - the reply I got was
"Well, we only have pink lemonade." Fortunately I remembered where I was and changed the order to include Sprite.

Originally Posted by nzFuzzy

Like the Australians in New Zealand we tend to refer to "soft drinks" by their commercial name rather than soda or pop. Kids might understand the concept of soda depending on how much American TV they watch.
Soda here would be a shortened term for Soda Water which is simply carbonated, unflavoured water.
A Coke is made by Coca-Cola and certainly not something to be confused with Pepsi.

Sprite / 7-Up and similar products are collectively known as lemonade.... something that made ordering mixed drinks in an American bar and interesting experience.
They thought I was mad when I asked for "vodka, lime & lemonade" - the reply I got was
"Well, we only have pink lemonade." Fortunately I remembered where I was and changed the order to include Sprite.

What? The funny accents didn't give it away?


Mick

I just today found that my all-time favorite pop, Cock 'n' Bull Ginger Beer, is available in a nearby grocery store for the first time in 15 years. It's my favorite of the ginger beers I've tried.
I also found Sioux City Sarsaparilla at the same store, which has also been unavailable locally for a long time.

Of the mass produced products, I prefer Coke and Ruby Red Squirt to most other pops.

I would like to try Moxie some time, but they don't sell it around here.

The discontinued pops I miss the most are OK Soda (everything's going to be OK) and Josta.

Im a sucker for apple beer when I can find it.