Excel Orange Pineapple

Excel Bottling was featured in one of my earliest posts, back in 2010, when I discusses Ski. They've been bottling sodas since 1936, but also started making beer. I used to visit Excel once a month or so when I lived out in St. Louis. It made for a nice drive through the country to a small town, called Breese. I liked that they still operated on returnable bottles with the locals, although they've moved to throw-away bottles in order to distribute farther and keep costs down.

It has a light pineapple scent with light carbonation. They use cane sugar, which I usually prefer since it offers a rounder sweetness to the taste. Despite the neon glow it's a nice refreshing beverage. The flavors are not overpowering and it's not too sugary. Don't ignore bottles like these because the decals aren't as flashy because you could be missing out on a good drink. And if you're ever near Breese, I always recommend a stop in to see their operation.

Fungal Fruit

The second of Avery's "SODAsgusting" series to appear here, the first being "Dog Drool." This series of drinks made by Avery was inspired by kids, so the names should not surprise you. 

Fungal Fruit smells a bit like pink lemonade, but its actually a mixture of lime and passion fruit as the label would indicate. The flavor doesn't really do anything for me. There are more refreshing fruit flavored sodas and the sweetness is a little too much for me. I think finishing a bottle of this would make me ill.