(Post theme: Safe Space by Jack Gray)

Last time: NZ Natural Juice Feijoa, this time: Six Barrel Cola Six.

330mL can, ordered online, same as the rest of the Six Barrel range.

The name is the six flavours that go into it: lime, orange, cinnamon, kola nut, coriander seed and vanilla. That list tells you exactly what sort of cola this is going to be, and it’s the sort I like least - the citrus-and-spice craft cola, as far from Coke as a cola can get while still being called one. I’ve said before that what I actually like is Coke and things adjacent to it, and this is at the opposite end.

On top of that there’s the distinctive Six Barrel taste that runs through everything of theirs I’ve had and that I’ve never got on with. So this is the house style I don’t enjoy wrapped around the cola style I don’t enjoy, which is a lose-lose, and the result is exactly what you’d predict: something I would rather skip.

It’s not undrinkable. 4.4/10.