I love it with bourbon but don’t want to support genocide… Tried pepsi zero, not the same and they work with sodastream…
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Honestly, the best you can do is try a bunch of stuff and research the company if you like it. It also really depends on how you define an ethical company. Even if you remove capitalism from it, if you look into deeply enough you’re going to find that every company has done something unethical or works with an unethical party within their supply chain.
Tap water.
I used to drink a lot of carbonated drinks but after I gave them up, I don’t miss them.
The taste and quality of tap water varies hugely where you are. I find hard water particularly unpleasant.
bourbon and water? eh
A splash of water in whisky isn’t at all uncommon in Scotland.
yeah but nobody in scotland would call bourbon whisky
Of course not, but I think that most people would agree that they are fairly similar spirits.
Yeah OP, just mix tap water with your bourbon!
A splash of water in whisky isn’t uncommon in Scotland, however you’d also get some weird looks for mixing your whiskey with coke.
I mix mine with my hopes & dreams for the future.
Ice
Lime and Soda, raspberry lemonade
I don’t like bourbon & coke but you might want to ask this on [email protected] , someone who does might be able to suggest another drink you’d like based on your preference.
Bourbon and pineapple juice or pineapple tepache is amazing if you want to go in a different direction.
Does your local grocery store have store brand softdrinks? They can taste similar. Our local store has good quality store brand products that are sometimes better than their name brand counterparts. Obviously if you only have Walmart, then that’s not a model corporation and you’re out of luck.
Yes! Is there one you could recommend?
Are you looking for cola specifically or something like cola adjacent? And do you like it sweet or are you not super particular?
The flavor of Coke Zero with preferably no sugar but doesn’t have to be that way
What you could do is get some store brand soda water / club soda / seltzer or a non-sodastream water carbonator. Then get like a cola syrup online. I know some ones that do use sugar are 1883 and Torani, they both have a cola flavour. I also havent seen a lot but I saw one brand called Zerup that has a zero sugar cola syrup. You could try that.
That’s a great idea! I do have a carbonator!
would doctor pepper work. not sure about near you but they are constantly on loss leader here. it was sorta funny. they were cheap then they got second place in colas and the sales went away. I bet their sales dropped because after a few months they came roaring back. It has a nice taste like a cherry cola but lighter.
I totally didn’t think of them! Unfortunately I just checked and they’re also made by coke…
I was going to say they are their own company seperate from coke and pepsi but just looked at apparently although coke was blocked from buying them in the us the name of their products overseas was bought up by coke and pepsi. so apparently the us is the only place its an independent company.
Dr Pepper is owned by Keurig, not coke.
I was gonna suggest Jones soda, but they seem to be owned by a chain of increasingly weird weed and crypto parent companies now.
non-sweetened grapefruit sparking water is a good mixer for ryes and bourbons imo
Almost all soda is produced by a corporation run by psychopaths. Your best bet is to stop drinking soda.
While it is a fair point that there’s no ethical consumerism under capitalism and soda is bad for you, I still want a drink and bourbon goes quite well with coke. I just hope to not support a company actively supporting genocide. I’d hope that’s a low bar for companies but you’re right it may not be.
I guess to be fair, there are some local places around me that make sodas, which probably are reasonable ethical businesses. Depending on how many bourbon colas you’re drinking, it might be worth paying extra for an locally made soda if possible. If you don’t have someone that makes soda locally (which is probably likely), maybe consider buying from “gourmet soda” brands like Hank’s.
Try a Old Fashioned.
Very good as well but I love the fizz
I guess I could carbonate one lol
Haha. I haven’t tried it myself, but I’ve heard carbonated oaked spirits are not that good.
If you after carbonated go a whiskey highball.
Having said this an old fashioned is my go-to as i am a neat scotch drinker typically and this fits well (especially while i am out somewhere and dont want to pay “bar prices” for scotch).
And since the old fashioned is a bit flexible i migrate from rye to bourbon to scotch and loop back again, it keeps it interesting and its super simple if you want to drink it at home.
All you need is bourbon/scotch/rye, bitters, cherry or orange peel & simple syrup (make your own with sugar+water).Too sweet? Use less simple syrup or use rye whiskey.
More flavour? Use more bitters.
Like smokey? Squeeze the orange peel zest over a lighter flame
85% of products you buy of literally anything in some form benefits towards those who do fucked up shit. You can’t avoid it.
Not all products have an organised boycott movement behind them. The number of large-scale organised boycotts is quite small and easy to participate in.
Go sober like the people of Gaza and make your own cola at home, lots of recipes online and it will definitely taste better
Water
Water and bourbon doesn’t sound like the best cocktail tbh
A little bit of water releases the burbon flavors and males it taste better. Also, ice waters it down after a while and tastes lile shit.
Oh true actually. I know scotch bars will give you a little dropper of water to activate the flavour. I was imagining a ratio of 9-1 water/bourbon though lol
isn’t that just flat favourless tonic for poor people?
No water is for rich people coke is for poor people. There are parts of world where you can easily get coke but not water.
You should see some of the filtration systems I’ve seen mounted on the sides of rich houses I work around
On the one hand, that’s excessive. On the other hand, if I had the money, sure why not – you can’t trust the regulators anymore
I wonder how similar opencola is
