I am back. It has been a while, but I’m back. Today I’ve got another can of Bubly with me. I have another flavour that I’m going to be breaking down. I have worked my way through six flavours so far, including one that was a limited time flavour released at the beginning of the summer. That was actually the last post I made about Bubly. Coconut pineapple.
This time, I’ll be taking on the first of the three berry flavours I need to cover. I’m starting with blackberry because I feel like it. This is a staple of gas stations and convenience stores that stock the tall cans. You can almost guarantee you’ll see lime, cherry, and blackberry in the tall cans. I’ve grabbed a few of those, myself, through the years. The can I’m drinking today isn’t a tall can, though. It’s the last in a case I bought a little while back.
Blackberry is a flavour I always go back to. It’s a dependable Bubly flavour. It has a nice hint of the berry, not overwhelming, but also not lacking. It hits that sweet spot of saturation. The smell comes through nicely with every sip, as long as you haven’t eaten something right before and left part of that something on your face. I just had a bunch of salted cashews, so I’m dealing with the salt smell in my facial hair. Oops. Part of taste is smell. I should have seen this coming.
I don’t really have too much to say about this one. I like the blackberry flavour. It’s not my favourite, but it’ll surely be up there when all is said and done. It doesn’t taste exactly like a blackberry. That might be the biggest knock against it. If I were to blindly taste this flavour, I might not immediately point to it being blackberry. That doesn’t make it bad. That just makes one of the least recognizable flavours so far.
It took me a few Michael Bublé songs to find one that fit with the concept of blackberry Bubly. I think I found one in After All. It’s off his album To Be Loved. After All featured Bryan Adams. He and Michael Bublé are two distinct voices that bring their own feel to any song. However, they sang in harmony throughout After All, which took something away from the distinct flavour promised by their presence. You know what Michael Bublé is like. You know what Bryan Adams is like. But you don’t really get the full impact of either. It was still a good song. It just lacked that certain something because it didn’t live up to the promise. Sort of like how blackberry Bubly didn’t quite taste like blackberry, but was still a good time.
The current ranking for Bubly flavours would be peach, blackberry, pineapple, watermelon, lime, coconut pineapple, and then cherry at the bottom.
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