Cascal Light Red

   So I saw a bottle of what I thought was a soda called Cas Cal… but it turns out that’s the actual companies name.  First off that reminds me of a dish detergent name but I don’t know why.  Then I searched the bottle for the name of the flavor it incased and the best I could find was “Light Red”.  Fortunately the bottle also included the fact that the soda had “notes” of black current, cherry, and mirabelle, which is apparently a variety of plum.  So I take this bottle to Mike’s so that we may record a Popcast about it, and in the process of studying the bottle I learn that almost everything in this is fermented.  Sigh.  I’m not a big fan of the fermented sodas but needless to say it still needs to be reviewed. 

   This smells horrible.  Ok, maybe horrible is too strong a word but this isn’t anything I would normally ingest without some sort of compensation.  Today’s compensation is the fact that I later get to post this article to our fellow citizens of the Carbo-Nation.  Time for consumption.

   Amazingly it doesn’t taste nearly as horrible as it smells, so I guess it’s got that going for it. One delightful thing about this is the fact that it’s very lightly carbonated.  There is a slight fruity flavor, but honestly there is nothing special here.  I occasionally get the slight flavor of tea but the fermentation is warping the “light red” flavor to the point where I really don’t want to finish this bottle.  I feel badly making this such a short review but honestly there is nothing else that needs to be said about this.  It has light carbonation and a slight but warped fruit flavor tainted by fermentation.  This is a big ol’ bottle of Meh.

Verdict – Buyer Beware

~A

Light Red... more like Light Dead. Sigh. Twist always wrote the witty captions.

Comments

[HeatherT]

Wish I had come across this before trying these myself!

[The Soda Jerks]

Glad you found it eventually, Heather. Hopefully we can keep you from making mistakes like this in the future. :)

~A

[Stacey E]

I actually liked it. It reminds me strongly of that sparkling apple juice you get in the grocery store in the big champagne like bottles. Except somehow they managed to remove most of the sugar from this. That's a pretty good trick, since it's about 80-90% fruit juice. I've tried all kinds of "adult" type pop, and most of that is offensively awful. I expected not to like this either. I'm not sure why your bottle smelled bad, mine smells like apple or pear juice, with a slight scent of fermentation.
Want to try something really awful? Try that Kombucha stuff that's their version of root beer. ewww...