green mocktails - Pomegranate Ginger & Lime
an interesting journey, with an excellent flavour profile, ruined by heaps and heaps of sweetener.
green has previously been kind to me, but the notion of “mocktail” is ever so slightly frightening. as my experience with non-alcoholic, mojito-like drinks has proven, these have the makings of excellent products, but always with that essential element given by alcohol missing.
taste profile: as could be reasonably expected, the tanginess of lime powers through everything else as soon as you open the can. slight hints of ginger can, with a bit of effort, be distinguished in there too, while the pomegranate wraps the smell in subtle mouth-watering sourness. this promises a lot.
shockingly sweet as it is, the taste is very pleasant. there clearly is a dialogue between the flavours and this was balanced well - no gaps between the pillars of this profile whatsoever. to the fore, sweet lime brightens up the palette, while the pomegranate is present, but very, very slightly. once the sweet lime has gone, what is left is a hint of the sourness of pomegranate, followed by the ginger, which leaves a rather interesting accent on the tail end.
it’s pleasantly fizzy too, but falls short of being refreshing, on account of all the sweetener. it’s unpleasantly sticky too.
rating: 7/10 - an interesting journey, with an excellent flavour profile, ruined by heaps and heaps of sweetener. WHY on earth would you do that? this could have been great. “oh, but it’s meant to be served with ice” - yeah, but it’ll be completely flat if it’s diluted, making it a poor companion for water or ice. this may work with ice-cold seltzer though, the only scenario i can imagine where this would get better.
health impact: 0,8g sugar/100ml. uses stevia sweeteners.
background: founded in 2011 in Greece, green Cola is yet another “new wave” pop manufacturer, focusing on replacing sugar with stevia sweetener. based on what i’ve gathered, green opens subsidiaries (and potentially, bottling/manufacturing facilities) within (some of?) the countries where it’s selling its products.
