Peach Bubly. The favourite flavour of that short Italian plumber, his taller brother, and the turtle guy they frequently fight against. The next flavour that I’m going to be writing about as I journey through all the possible flavours of Bubly I can try. I thought it was going to be ten flavours, but it might be more. Plus the American flavours I might be able to get when I go over there next. This could be a much longer journey than my original intention.
This is one of those flavours I haven’t been drinking for too long. The idea of peach flavoured stuff, outside of peaches and fuzzy peaches, doesn’t seem too appealing to me. Personal bias and all that, though I don’t know where the bias comes from. I picked up my first case a week or two ago and I was pleasantly surprised by it. It’s not one of what I would consider the classics. It wasn’t one of the original eight flavours. Looking it up, they seem to have recently migrated to Canada. Maybe that’s why I hadn’t really noticed peach before.
Let’s get into what the flavour is like. I pop open the can and I get a smell that’s stronger than almost any other flavour I’ve had. It might be the strongest smell. It absolutely smells like peach. The flavour, not the Super Mario Bros. character. It’s like there’s an immediate punch of the smell into your nose so that when you get to the sparkling water itself, you’re not overwhelmed. That’s right. Overwhelmed.
Peach Bubly also has a strong flavour to it. Something about the peach hits as soon as the water touches your tongue. There doesn’t seem to be so much flavour in the carbonation, even though it’s clearly there from the smell. It tastes like the flavour is in the water. It lingers more than the carbonation does, leaving behind a peachy aftertaste. Not full peach like you’re biting into it. More of that actual peach aftertaste when you were eating a peach two minutes ago. That sort of thing.
The peach taste doesn’t drop off as much as some of the other Bubly flavours. It stays in the can until the last drop. To be completely honest, I had a can that I left out half full for a couple hours last week. When I went back to it, the carbonation was almost completely gone, but the flavour was still present. I have to give peach some points for that.
The only thing keeping it from being within my favourite flavours (it’s on the outside looking in) is the peach itself. It’s a personal thing. Peach is a flavour I prefer in moderation. I like it, but I wouldn’t want to constantly eat or drink something with that flavour. That’s different for things like berries and apples (You can probably see where these ranking will skew), which I could regularly eat or drink. There’s just something about peach that doesn’t fit into that upper echelon of flavours. For me. It might for you.
Now it’s time for the fun part. Where would I rank peach Bubly on the Michal Bublé scale? Which song fits this flavour the most? Based on everything I’ve written, I’m going to have to go with Haven’t Met You Yet, one of his biggest hits. I like the song. It’s a delightful little ditty that I’ll always associate with the Hamm and Bublé sketch from Saturday Night Live. But if I had to hear the song for more than ten minutes at a time, I would get tired of it. Just like I get tired of peach. Then, after some time away from it, I will be able to go back and appreciate it again. That’s peach flavoured Bubly.
So far, my ranking is peach at the top, lime at the bottom.
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