Klarbrunn – Raspberry

Another really nice can—strong design—if I’d seen someone drinking this, I’d go, “Whoa! What is that?” It looks very cool—the fonts, design, and color combinations. Klarbrunn has it going on. This a quite subtly flavored fruity water—which maybe is for the best. It definitely tastes raspberry. While I was drinking it, I got to thinking about the old days of “soda pop”—how you’d get the really super sugary “pop” with enough toxic red color to make a swimming pool pink and enough sugar to put a normal person in a coma. Of course, we were all addicted and used to the sugar. What if kids grew up drinking this instead? —they’d all have their favorites, get excited about new ones, levels of intrigue and cool—and once you get off the sugar addiction, just the bubbles and the flavor and the cold is equally as satisfying as a sugary soda pop and, I maintain… more refreshing. Also, I tried this one with coffee (the idea is—any flavor that would mix well with chocolate might go good with espresso, and this one is no exception). The next challenge is to name it. “Black Cow” is taken, so come up with a new name, like… black something, or something black. Berry Black. Black Snake. Black Beret, etc. Ideas. Should I do regular cocktail reviews? I mean flavored sparking water mixed with cold coffee cocktails? Perhaps in the future, when the water options dry up (if they ever do).

12.26.23