Lester Fixin's Buffalo Wing Soda

Ho boy. Buffalo Wing Soda. This is my first foray into a savory soda. I'm a little apprehensive. But who knows, it could be really special. So I'll try it. How bad could it be? Spoilers: really bad

Appearance

Slogan reads. "Y'all get yer fixins"

You know what this reminds me of? The label reminds me of when restaurants put really poor quality photos of the food next to it's name and prices in the menu. Sometimes it makes the food look appealing, but most of the time it's rather unappetizing. But, at least you know whats inside the container, right?

Appearance Score

3/10, not doing it for me.

Taste

Hooo boy. I cracked it open. It smells sweet. I'm not sure how sweet will work with savory soda. It smells faintly of A1 steak sauce. A little onion-y and... raisins? Am I smelling raisins? What's up with that? And the taste! Oh god, the taste. It's really sweet. And it tastes like onions. There's a little spicy bite in the back of the throat, which is interesting but not in a good way. And there is this prevailing overpowering taste of stale bazooka bubble gum. This  is not a good soda. This is a bad soda. Sure it's novel. And it's cute, what their trying to do. But it's really bad. Like Offensively bad. I have never disliked a soda this much.

Taste Score

1/10. It get's 1 point for trying something new.

Combine the pumpkin pie soda with the wings soda to create sadness!

Lester's Fixins Pumpkin Pie Soda

I was out about the town with some friends of mine, and one friend purchased a couple of these Lester's Fixins sodas. It's obviously a novelty brand, and they had sodas like "peanut butter and jelly" and "sweet corn". So, if nothing else, this will be interesting.

Appearance

If you look closely, you'll notice this was taken in a chipotle. Great lighting.

This is the appearance of a soda that your sweet old grandpa would make in his basement. It's a plain glass bottle that you can buy in bulk. It's a hastily slapped on labeled with a big picture of what it's supposed to be. Honest. Simple. A little poor quality. A little word art-y. Pretty pixely. But it comes with a little picture of the titular Lester, so that's cute?

Appearance Score

3/10, nothing special.

Taste

The soda is so orange it looks like orange soda. I'm trying this at room temperature, so this might not be the best representation of itself this soda has to offer, so I'll give it that lee way. The soda smells a little spicy, which is interesting. It has a spicy taste too, a little like cloves, but not quite. It is faaar too sweet. And it's not pumpkin-y at all. It tastes a lot like bubble gum and is most definitely not a good representation of pumpkin pie. Or a good representation of a decent soda.

Taste Score

3/10, I would not voluntarily drink it

Fentamins Curiosity Cola

I'm slowly working my way to completion of all the Fentamins sodas. Today I'm trying the Curiosity Cola. I am not a big fan of cola. It tastes like medicine to me and I rarely, if ever, drink it voluntarily. What I'm saying is, in the coke vs. pepsi debate, I am firmly on the side of neither. But it's Fentamins, so it has to be good, right?

Appearance

 

I feel like me scoring the appearance of Fentamins sodas is completely redundant at this point. They're all in the same bottle! So, as usual, the bottle is gorgeous and classic and blah blah blah.

Appearance Score

9/10, no one is surprised.

Taste

This is a tough one. It smells like a more mature version of Coca Cola. It tastes like an authentic cola. Like if cola went back to it's "hand crafted" roots and was made with simple and high quality ingredients. This is what it would taste like. I promise I'm not a fentamins shill. It's refreshing. It's sweet, but well balanced. But I'm just not a fan of cola. So I didn't love it. But if you like cola, this is an excellent example.

Taste Score

5/10?