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What Flavor Is Mello Yello?
What Mello Yello tastes like, how it compares with Mountain Dew, what its label says about the build, and what it takes to make a smooth caffeinated citrus soda.
November 6, 2026 · 3 min
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Soda
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What Flavor Is Sunkist Soda?
What Sunkist soda tastes like, who owns the name, how much caffeine it has, how it compares with Fanta, and what goes into building a caffeinated orange soda.
November 6, 2026 · 3 min
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What Flavor Is Surge?
What Surge tastes like, its launch, discontinuation and revivals, how it compares with Mountain Dew and Mello Yello, and what it takes to bring back a discontinued flavor.
November 6, 2026 · 3 min
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What Flavor Is Vernors?
What Vernors tastes like, why its vanilla and ginger differ from a dry ginger ale, what the oak-barrel story would mean, and how to build a golden ginger ale.
November 6, 2026 · 3 min
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What Flavor Is Fanta?
What Fanta tastes like, how its orange flavor is built, how the recipe differs between the US, Mexico and the UK, and what that means for an orange soda brief.
November 5, 2026 · 3 min
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What Flavor Is Mountain Dew Code Red?
What Mountain Dew Code Red tastes like, how its cherry and citrus share the can, and how to build a caffeinated cherry-citrus soda with a red that holds.
November 4, 2026 · 3 min
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What Flavor Is Pibb Xtra?
What Pibb Xtra (sold as Mr. Pibb again) tastes like, how its spicy cherry differs from Dr Pepper, and how to build a spiced cherry soda with the heat in check.
November 4, 2026 · 3 min
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What Flavor Is Sprite?
What Sprite tastes like, which compounds make lemon-lime, why a clear soda needs a different citrus build, and what goes wrong with citrus in acid and light.
November 4, 2026 · 3 min
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Cream Soda Flavor
What cream soda flavor is, why it tastes creamy without dairy, the role of foam, red versus clear cream soda, Australian and New Zealand creaming soda, and how to build it.
October 29, 2026 · 3 min
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What Is Sarsaparilla?
What sarsaparilla is, how the Smilax root itself tastes, why sarsaparilla soda tastes of wintergreen, licorice and vanilla, and how it relates to root beer.
October 27, 2026 · 3 min
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Root Beer Flavor
What root beer tastes like and why, from sassafras and the 1960 safrole ban to wintergreen, vanilla and licorice, and how to build a root beer flavor today.
October 23, 2026 · 3 min
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What Flavor Is Coke?
What Coca-Cola tastes like, how it differs from Pepsi, what the company has and has not disclosed, and what that means if you are building a cola-type flavor.
October 23, 2026 · 3 min
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What Flavor Is Big Red?
What Big Red tastes like, why it is a vanilla cream soda despite the red color, and how to build a red cream soda for drinks, floats and frozen treats.
October 22, 2026 · 3 min
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What Flavor Is Mountain Dew?
What Mountain Dew tastes like, how orange juice, citric acid and caffeine shape it, and what it takes to build a cloudy citrus soda now that BVO is gone.
October 20, 2026 · 3 min
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What Flavor Is Butterbeer?
What butterbeer tastes like, the butterscotch chemistry behind it, what Universal has said about its version, and how to build a butterscotch cream soda.
October 19, 2026 · 3 min
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Cola Flavor
What cola flavor is made of (citrus oils, vanilla, spice, phosphoric acid and caramel color), where the kola nut fits, and how to build a cola that holds up.
October 15, 2026 · 3 min
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What Flavor Is Baja Blast?
What Mountain Dew Baja Blast tastes like, what PepsiCo has and has not said about the flavor, and what goes wrong when you build a tropical lime soda.
October 15, 2026 · 3 min
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What Flavor Is Dr Pepper?
What Dr Pepper tastes like, which aroma compounds carry its cherry, almond and vanilla notes, and how to build a Dr Pepper-type flavor that holds up.
October 14, 2026 · 3 min