Coca-Cola Zero - Aluminum Bottles

Coca-Cola will be selling its Coca-Cola Zero in this new aluminum bottle.

Aluminum bottles are said to keep their contents colder longer. The bottle will feature a unique design and a "Scratchy DJ" theme.

Priced at $15.00, this collectible bottle is made in Belgium is said to fuse Coke and iTunes in a funky way.

There are also aluminum bottles for Cola-Cola, and Coca-Cola Light...

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Coca-Cola 1899 Hutchinson Bottles are Back

Coca-Cola is releasing a series of limited edition bottles filled with the famous soft drink.


First up in the series is the first ever bottle used by drink's first bottler, Joseph A. Biedenharn, the 9.3oz "Hutchinson Bottle", of 1899.

The Christmas-themed six-pack is making its way to retail outlets all over the country, priced around $4.99.

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Soda Splash - Soda Flavoring Spray

Figueroa Brothers, Inc. of Dallas, TX has an answer to all these odd-ball soda-flavor combinations coming out these days: sell bottles of flavoring.

Soda Splash is a pressurized can of flavoring that you can spray (or spritz) into a glass of soda, allowing you to create flavor combinations.

They come in three flavors, Cherry, Lime, and Vanilla.

So, you can create a Cherry Lime Rickey by shooting in some Cherry and Lime into a glass of 7-Up. Or, you can make your own Cherry Vanilla Dr Pepper. Or how about a Lime Vanilla Rootbeer?

The company says it contains no sweetener, and adds no calories.

I don't know where or when Soda Splash is available, but you can keep track of it on its own website...

http://www.sodasplash.com

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Tay Zonday - Cherry Chocolate Rain

The folks behind the new Cherry Chocolate Diet Dr. Pepper, stepped forward and released a new video on You Tube featuring pop music star, Tay Zonday, dubbed, "Cherry Chocolate Rain".

The music video is a satire on Zonday's hit song, "Chocolate Rain".

(I'm so out of touch on the pop music scene, sorry! That's what happens when you download too many MP3s.)

Anyways, without further adieu, Tay Zonday and "Cherry Chocolate Rain"...



Thanks Jon Eick (So Good Blog)

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Cherry Chocolate Diet Dr. Pepper Soda

Cadbury Schweppes Americas Beverages made the official announcement of their new Cherry Chocolate Diet Dr. Pepper soda today, claiming it to be only the third flavor variety in the brand's history.

The new "limited edition" flavor is supposed to combine the taste of Dr. Pepper with sweet cherries dipped in chocolate. Makes you wonder if someone dropped a chocolated-dipped cherry in his cup of Dr. Pepper, and decided there needed to be a new soda flavor.

"Cherry Chocolate Diet Dr Pepper is the perfect indulgence for the holidays ... zero calories, zero carbs, zero guilt, and all the flavor of Dr Pepper," said Andrew Springate, vice president of marketing for CSAB. "Based on consumer response, we expect Cherry Chocolate Diet Dr Pepper will have a strong and devoted following."

The consumer response that Springate was talking about was the fact that Cherry Chocolate Diet Dr. Pepper has been shipping out to stores the past month.

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Pomegranate 7UP

Just in time for the holiday season, Cadbury Schweppes Americas Beverages (CSAB) introduces new Pomegranate 7UP.

Described as a "perfect blend of natural Pomegranate flavor added to the
crisp, refreshing lemon-lime taste", the famed soda brand is among the Johnny-come-lately's to jump on a Pomegranate bandwagon with little seating for more passengers.

"With its natural Pomegranate flavor and deep burgundy color, Pomegranate 7UP is a festive addition to the holiday season," said Matt Smith, 7UP brand director for CSAB. "Pomegranate is one of the fastest growing flavors in beverages today, and
Pomegranate 7UP makes a perfect primer for any holiday party."

Pomegranate 7UP has 100% natural flavors like its Lemon-Lime cousin, and is
caffeine free.

The limited edition soda will be on store shelves during the holiday season nationwide beginning Nov. 1, 2007 through Jan. 31, 2008.

Source: 7UP.com

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Pepsi Raw

Mork from Trademork tells us that Pepsico is on its way towards delivering a new cola-variant called, "Pepsi Raw", saying that it's based on pure cane sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup.

Read more at Trademork...
http://www.trademork.com/pepsi-raw/

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Havana Mojito Soda

Havana Beverages of Louisville, KY is now offering a new soda called "Mojito Soda".

Pronounced, mo-HEE-toh, it's an alcoholic mixed-drink made of lime, mint leaves, sugar, and rum, originating from the Caribbean.

The Mojito has quickly in grown in popularity in recent years, and it was only a matter of time that someone would create Americanized junk food offshoots.

Except this new soda comes without alcohol.

And it also comes in a diet variety.

For more information, visit Havana Beverages online at...
http://www.havanabeverage.com

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Sweaty Football Player Soda

Ever wonder what a football player tastes like?

Now you can swish around the essence of a sweaty, stinky, football player in your mouth with Jones Soda's new flavor, "Perspiration".

It's part of their five-flavor pack of sodas honoring the Seattle Seahawks NFL team. There are five flavors in each pack...

• Perspiration


• Sports Cream


• Dirt Soda


• Natural Field Turf


• Sweet Victory

The Jones Soda website says that the average football player Spent has eaten 2 pounds of grass, and tasted 3 pounds of dirt over their career, so why not you?

The Seahawks Collector Pack will also be available for pre-sale beginning on Thursday, September 27th at 8 a.m. (PST) on www.jonessodastore.com. The pack will only be available in limited quantities, and on a first come, first served basis.

Visit the unique new five-pack online at...
https://ssl.jonessodastore.com/seahawkspack/code/?

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Mountain Dew Green Label Art Series

It's not what's inside that's important. It's all about the packaging with Mountain Dew's new Green Label Art series of 16 ounce bottles made from aluminum and featuring different limited edition artwork.

The contoured bottles highlight works created in all media including tattoo design, cut & paste collage, paint, charcoal and, of course, computer graphics.

Featured artists in the inital collection include: Adam Juresko, Chris Pastras, Chuck Anderson, Dr. Revolt, jeffstaple, JT Woodruff, Mark Nardelli, Methamphibian, Peat Wollaeger, Troy Denning (shown) and TWEEQiM.

The bottles are filled with ordinary Mountain Dew.

See the special promotional website featuring videos and images from the artists' other works: GreenLabelArt.com

You can register and enter your own artwork, too, so expect more designs to be released in the future.

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Jones Soda Launches 4C

Jones Soda Co. has launched 24C, a line of vitamin-enhanced waters and powdered drink mixes.

The non-carbonated drinks are high in vitamin C and other water soluble essential vitamins, antioxidants & electrolytes.

Every bottle or powdered mix packet of 24C provides up to 2,000 percent of the daily value of vitamin C, 125 percent of vitamin A, 63 percent of vitamin B2, 63 percent of vitamin B3, 500 percent of vitamin B6 and 500 percent of vitamin B12.

While Jones Soda converted to all cane sugar for their carbonate drinks, the 4C line currently lists crystalline fructose as their sweetener.

Current flavors are: Tropical Citrus, Peach Mango, Berry Pomegranate, Lemon Lime, Mandarin Orange and Cranberry Apple flavors.

See the Jones Soda 4C page for more info.

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Sparkling Lemonades from Rieme

GermanDeli.com is distributing the French sparkling limonades from Rieme in the Unite States. You can find them at their website and at small upscale grocers.

The bottles hold 750 ml and have a hinged cap for storing unused portions and maintaining the fizz.

The sparkling drinks come in four flavors: Blood Orange Lemonade, Grapefruit Lemonade, Orange Lemonade and classic Lemonade.

The bottles retail for $5.79 on their website and probably at similar prices in stores.

Rieme is also known for their fine flavoring syrups for coffee drinks and alcohol mixers.

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Fizzies return with new Two Pack

Steve reported on the re-introduction of Fizzies last summer, which is a line of tablets you drop in water to create a flavored carbonated drink.

They're now available in two-tablet packs instead of full boxes at retail locations (previously only available on the web and some specialty retailers).

Originally introduced using saccharin as a sweetener, the tablets were reformulated several times over the years to upgrade to FDA-approved sweeteners. This re-introduction of Fizzies uses a combination of several sweeteners including sorbitol, acesulfame potassium (AceK) and sucralose (Splenda). Since Sucralose is more than 500 times sweeter than sugar, it takes only 1/500 the amount to sweeten ... a Fizzies tablet using real sugar would make it bigger than a golf ball.

1 Fizzies tablet is good for flavoring 4-6 ounces of water. One serving has 100% of the RDA of Vitamin C and "~45% less [benzene] than the amount considered safe by the Environmental Protection Agency."

Fizzies can be used to make soda out of plain water and are small enough to fit into most standard water bottles. They come in seven flavors: sour apple, lemon-lime, root beer, cherry, orange, blue razz and fruit punch.

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Coca-Cola to Expand Soda Fountain Offerings

According to an article in Bloomberg News today, Coca-Cola is looking to secure a greater margin of the soda fountain market with a new fountain dispenser for fast food restaurants.

The "Bev-olution" dispenser may arrive in U.S. restaurants in October, said Chris Lowe, president of Coca- Cola's North America foodservice unit. Consumers will be able to make their own drink combinations by, for example, mixing Sprite with a shot of cherry flavor.

The unit will allow up to fifty flavor combinations including non-carbonated drinks such as PowerAde and an added flavor shot module. Look for them to appear in McDonald's and Wendy's first. Fountain drinks have a staggering 80% profit margin compared to 65% for bottled drinks.

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Woman Successfully Sues After Drinking 5,000 Liters of Coke

Annanova reports that a Russian woman sued Coca-Cola for physical damages after drinking 5,000 liters of Coke.

Natalya Kashuba, 27, the owner of an up-market clothes shop, drank up to three litres of the soft drink every day for five years.

She took legal action against the soft drinks giant after claiming that she had suffered insomnia and heartburn, reports the Telegraph.

She blames Coca-Cola for the addiction because the company ran a promotion that allowed consumers to swap Coca Cola caps for prizes.

Two Russian courts agreed with her, and is forcing Coca-Cola to pay awards. She's now seeking further awards for "moral damages".

Sounds to me that Russians have fully grasped the concepts of capitalism.

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Lordi Cola

Lordi is apparently the name of a popular hard-rock group in Finland. Now they have their own brand of cola.

I suppose in the United States this might be the equivalent of "KISS Cola" if there were such a thing. Or "Eminem M&M's", or "Snoop Dogg Decaffeinated Roast".

It's manufactured by Olvi Oyj, a maker of Finnish beer.

The BBC has an article announcing the group's new soft drink, which comes in regular and diet varieties. They also have photo of the group, which looks like Kiss with their faces were burned off.

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Fizzies Drink Tablets

Fizzies Drink Tablets are back.

I'm not sure if they really went away, but they're now being distributed by Old Time Candy Co.

They're kinda like Alka Seltzer tablets; you drop one into a glass of water, and it turns it into soda. Comes in Blue Razz, Cherry, Fruit Punch, Lemon Lime, Orange, Root Beer, and Sour Apple flavors.

The "effervescent" drink tablets are said to have no sugar and contains 100 percent of the recommended daily supply of vitamin C. The suggested retail price is $2.99 per box.

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Lost Trail Sugar Cane Cola

Louisburg Cider Mill, Inc. recently added a new variety called, "Sugar Cane Cola" to its line of Lost Trail sodas.

The entire Lost Trail line of sodas is themed after flavors popular in the days of the Old West. It started with the Lost Trail Root Beer, made from the original formula encountered by Joe Marshall, the great-great-grandfather of Shelly Schierman, the company's founder.

Sugar Cane Cola is the newest variety, said to be microbrewed for authentic flavor, and is now available in the USA at a suggested retail price of $3.49 per four-pack.

While not yet mentioned on the company's website, it's now shipping. Hey imagine that, we beat BevNet to the story on this one!

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Green Dragon Stress-Relieving Soda

New from SodaLixir Herbal Beverages of Santa Monica, CA, comes Green Dragon, a soda-pop said to relieve stress.

It's described as a ginger soda, with a concoction of herbal ingredients designed to make you feel good.

The product's website says...

Modern research has found that the herbs in Green Dragon work to lower blood pressure, lower cholesterol and regulate blood sugar. After drinking Green Dragon, the effects should be felt within 5 to 15 minutes.

It's jam-packed with botanical names that homeopathy fanatics ought to appreciate.

Visit their store finder.

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7up All Natural

7up, the famous lemon/lime soft drink has given up on artificial flavors and is turning to real lemon and lime juices.

From the sounds of it, you're no longer going to be able to get "classic" 7up, instead it's going to have the real juice. They also reduced the sodium content by 50%.

I guess it's ok. It's not like 7up is still popular. Pepsico quit bottling it in favor of its Sierra Mist product.

Now if they'd only do Cactus Cooler in real fruit juice. Though, I'd still want "classic" Cactus Cooler for those days when you just gotta relive old memories.

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