Two things I adore: Fallout and soda. Funnily enough, I also love how much Fallout loves soda as well, from the in-universe brands, the bottle cap currency and the fact that the game has soda be something you can actually use in the game at times and it’s viable. This whole Fallout-soda vortex has been a home run so far. But then….shit got real.

The Jones Soda company, a Canadian premier soda company, in collaboration with someone who I assume has the rights to do this, have released these amazing Fallout sodas that are probably limited edition but hopefully not because, guess what, they are awesome. There’s three flavors, the Sunset Sarsaparilla, Nuka-Cola Grape and Nuka-Cola Quantum and when I say that I know now what premium soda means….Holy hell.

SUNSET SARSAPARILLA

This Western themed soda is a simple but punchy root beer. There’s not a big twist or anything jumping out at you, it just is what it is and that’s a fundamentally perfect root beer. There’s no aftertaste, no weakness in the flavor profile. It tastes exactly how it should, but better because it’s so well executed. I don’t even like root beer than much but this one really left an impression on me. I thought I was gonna be “getting through it” and instead I finished it in like 4 minutes. It was excellent. And then the packaging- very aesthetic and kind of lo-fi but just enough of a hint of that off kilter Fallout vibe that makes drinking the whole thing feel cooler.