Jarritos Lime Soda
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at 1:04PM Please be good. Please, please, please be the best lime soda I’ve ever had. Oh! Hi there, Aaron here from TheSodaJerks.net. Perhaps you saw me begging and pleading with this bottle of Jarritos Lime Soda to be of excellent quality and taste. If so, I’m very sorry to have embarrassed you like that. If not… well then you don’t read our reviews very carefully do you? As you may know I have a dream of finding a great lime soda but that dream has not been realized yet. Hopefully today Jarritos will show me that my dream is not of the “pipe” variety. Let’s open this up and see where it takes us.
Upon smelling the opening of the bottle I notice a very slight lime scent. This of course is somewhat promising, but how much of that promise will translate into a delicious lime taste? There’s only one way to answer that question… drink the soda. I guess we could have someone else drink it, and then allow them to review the soda for us but that wouldn’t be much fun would it? Here goes.
I’m… I’m liking this. Fortunately this is not one of those lime sodas where it just tastes like you’re drinking off brand 7-Up. While I wouldn’t compare it to cutting open a lime and sucking out the sour goodness, I also wouldn’t compare this to lime flavored candy either. The flavor I’m experiencing here is in the middle of those two places, not too sour, not too candy sweet, in fact it’s very pleasant. Jarritos Lime Soda starts off without a lot of bite but as its incredible journey through the mouth continues the carbonation seems to attack your throat with a barrage of tiny bubbles.
The aftertaste that is left is slight, but delightfully sweet. This is also a very refreshing beverage with a somewhat light mouth feel, one I would enjoy on a hot day. That must sound kind of silly. “What kind of soda wouldn’t be good on a hot day, YOU FOOL?!” First off… cool it. Secondly, there are several beverages that might sit heavily in your stomach. For example strawberry soda is one you might not want to chug after playing cartoon freeze tag with all your friends. Well all your friends except Tyler since he’s a jerk and all. I can’t believe he borrowed Super Dodge Ball from you and when you finally got it back it wouldn’t work. You tried to play it but you just kept getting the title screen and some weird jumbled version of the title screen flashing back and forth while the first second of the title music repeats over and over again. What kind of friend ruins your favorite Nintendo game? No friend of mine. Getting back on track though, you could chug that strawberry soda but be prepared to watch all your friends recall in horror as you seem to lose more blood than humanly possible through your mouth. What a delightful mental picture that is!
Back to this, now empty, bottle of Jarritos Lime Soda. While I will not say that my dream has been fulfilled, Jarritos Lime Soda is the best lime flavored soda I’ve had to date. With that said my rating may hold a bit of a bias. I have just had the best lime soda I’ve ever tasted, and lime soda might not be all that important to you. With that said, know that this is a definite buy but that my rating is as follows.
Verdict – Buy a Pallet!
~A
(Note: This beverage was provided to us by Jarritos.)
Faux Fact: Twist is lime flavored.
Reader Comments (6)
Alright. I'm gonna have to pick me up some of this jarritos you kids keep talking about. Too manygood reviews not to.
Anyone that uses sugar to sweeten is going to be pretty good. I do highly suggest you start with Lime though, as it has been my favorite so far. I still have Fruit Punch, and Grapefruit in my fridge awaiting review.
This soda is pretty good. If you get the chance you should try to find this one really interesting flavor of jarritos. I think its only able to be found during Christmas, but its like a holiday candy flavored one.
Have you tried Limca (lemon-lime soda from India). The flavor profile is similar to Jarritos Lime but with more bite. People either seem to love it or hate it. Would be interested in hearing your take.
@Nan
I haven't tried that but it sounds fantastic! I'll def keep my eyes peeled for that one.
~A
i think nesbitts had the best lime soda..but long out of production/business.
My pop drove trucks when my brother and I were kids. He used to get this lime soda that looked like a uber tall bottle as a kid that we drank like it was water. One of the best soda memories I have. He reassures me it was not jaritos. I talked to him the other day and mentioned it and he thought it was nesbitts.
All I know is the soda was so damn good, it defies explanation as to why it is not made today.