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Many strange soft drinks are available in Germany.
This is very interesting as a new immigrant.
Most come in tall glass bottles that can be recycled in exchange for
a few cents.
Club is popular is available widely, especially in Berlin. It's
derived from the yerba mate plant, which gives it a high caffeine
content, making it popular with ravers and hackers. The yerba mate
flavor gives it a fairly intense flavour, some people would say
somewhere between iced tea and cigarettes.
Other flavours of Club commonly available are pomegranate (bright red),
and iced tea (darker instead of golden yellow of the original flavour).
A cinnamon variety is supposedly only available in the winter, but my
local drinks store sells it year-round. This is the only flavour
that tastes remotely different to me.
Available in specialist drinks stores. Much more caffeine than
Club (probably somewhere slightly below the legal limit), slightly
less sugary. Has a very bright label that looks like a South American
tapestry (probably reflects the origins of yerba mate). Very dark brown
in color. My preferred type - less sweet is good.
Other flavours include: hemp (delicious), lemongrass (delicious).
Commonly available in supermarkets. Has a sweeter taste than Club,
more similar to apple juice. Other flavours include: banana (extremely
sweet artificial banana taste), lapache and lemongrass (delicious), ginger.
Comes in shorter, fatter glass bottles than Club.
Often does special promotions with the Chaos Computer Club.
Much more like herbal tea than the other varieties, and less sweet in turn,
but it's still "fizzy pop" (or whatever you call it).
Mint flavoured. Sounds disgusting, but it's actually deliciously herbal.
A supermarket own brand variety, only available in cans with a llama on them.
No comment on this one, seems fairly generic.
Only sold in organic ("bio") stores.
Literally "brewed drink"? If you're American, you've probably had root
beer. If you're British, you might have had "dandelion and burdock".
This is somewhat approximate to those two. It looks like beer, but
tastes very different.
Kreuzbär is one variety I've obtained from drinks stores in the Kreuzberg
district of Berlin.
I honestly have no idea what to think of it.
These are literally everywhere, the most popular brands are Spezi and
Mezzo Mix. I don't have much to say, you can basically replicate them
by mixing Fanta with Coke.