FENTIMANS TRADITIONAL VICTORIAN LEMONADE, Soda Pop Review
November 24th, 2009 | by Conrad Walton |
FENTIMANS TRADITIONAL VICTORIAN LEMONADE
How can anything that’s named “Victorian” be bad? I mean that was a gentler time when people had refined tastes, right?
This was going to be great stuff.
Look at the bottle. How cool is the bottle. If you look closely, you can see that the glass has a slight blue/green tint to it. The shape is unique. It feels good in the hand, just the right size and shape.
The first smell. Nothing. Maybe a tiny whiff of something like lemon, but there’s no real smell here at all.
OK, so it’s gentle and Victorian.
The first sip and bammo! This stuff tastes like battery acid! There’s no sweetness to it. There’s not even a lot of lemon, just sour, sour, sour.
Bleck. Wow. My jaw is hurting. This is the most sour drink I’ve ever had.
I try another sip. Woo. Woo. Woo. This is strong and sour and this is not a pleasant experience at all!
I try to man up and drink the rest. I can’t. This is the first soda that I can not even finish.
I dump it out in the kitchen sink. It instantly cleans the rust spots.
(OK, that last one wasn’t true.)
I save the bottle for my wife because she thinks it’s pretty.
Just don’t think about how it tastes…
INGREDIENTS: Carbonated Water,Fermented Ginger Root Extracts,Sugar,Lemon Juice Concentrate,Glucose Syrup,Natural Flavours(Lemon,Speedwell and Juniper Extracts),Pear Juice Concentrate,Cream of Tartar
Tags: Battery Acid, Bleck, Carbonated Water, Extracts, Gentler Time, Ginger, Ginger Root, Glucose Syrup, Great Stuff, Juniper, Lemon Juice Concentrate, Lemonade, Pear Juice, Rust Spots, Shape, Sip, Soda Pop, Soda Water, Speedwell, Sweetness, Whiff
Fair Winds and Calm Seas,
Deborah Leon
www.mermaidspurseseaglass.com
