Today I will review three sodas: DRY Rhubarb Soda, MacFuddy Pepper Elixir, and Pepsi-Cola’s Mountain Dew.

Rhubarb:

The soda shows no head when decanted and is transparent clear in the glass. The nose is a subtle fruity smell, light and not overwhelming. There’s a paperlike quality to it.

The soda itself is intriguingly tart. It is noted on the bottle that it is less sweet (the 12 oz bottle has 60 calories), and this is certainly not the sweet, sugary soda one buys at the corner store. The rhubarb flavor is sour and strong, giving the soda a slight sting as it hits the taste buds, but the subtle sweetness on the back end more than makes up for this. This is a charming selection from DRY.

I give this soda a 7/10.

Ingredients in DRY Rhubarb Soda are Purified Carbonated Water, Cane Sugar, Natural Extract, and Phosphoric Acid. You can purchase this soda at sodapopstop.com

Pepper Elixir:

The soda is a dark golden brown in the glass, and has a strong smell, a strongly medicinal smell. You get a little earthiness and bark as well, but for the most part it’s overwhelmingly medicinal. The flavor is interesting. It tastes almost like an over-sugared root beer, but I also get a coffee taste from it. It’s definitely not as strong as I had expected, but it’s a distinct flavor that brings something new to the table. I would recommend trying this soda at least once. Overall, I give this soda a 6/10. Ingredients in MacFuddy Pepper Elixir are Carbonated Water, Cane Sugar, Natural and Artificial Flavors, Caramel Color, Extracts of Dark Cherry, Pepper, Vanilla, Phosphoric Acid, Sodium Benzoate. You can purchase this soda at sodapopstop.com.

Mountain Dew:

As the soda enters the cup, it looks like urine. There’s no other way of putting it; this is piss soda. There is some vague fruit in the nose, but it smells more like a cleaning product than anything else.

The way the flavorings and other chemicals interact give it almost a creamy lemon taste, allowing me to finally end my life long quest to taste curdling. This soda tastes like it should be served on a space shuttle, reconstituted from the filtered pee of my fellow astronauts.

I give this soda a 3/10.

Ingredients in Mountain Dew are Carbonated Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Concentrated Orange Juice, Citric Acid, Natural Flavor, Sodium Benzoate, Caffeine, Sodium Citrate, Erythorbic Acid, Gum Arabic, Calcium Disodium EDTA, Brominated Vegetable Oil, Yellow 5. You shouldn’t buy Mountain Dew.