FOOD & DRINK
The CLAW With their recent additions of mango, tangerine, lemon and watermelon to the White Claw family, the brand is certainly a top competitor in the battle of the seltzers — but is it the best? The ‘variety pack’ of Claws comes with a mixture of the 12 flavors and will cost you between $14 and $18 on average. It took awhile for the new flavor pack to hit the shelves, but they can now be found pretty much anywhere White Claws are sold. You can also purchase the drinks in single flavor six packs for $8 to $9 and individually packaged tallboy cans in the $2 to $3 range. Of the new flavors, I can’t say I have a favorite. They all live up to the expectations I have for White Claw. Based on the original round of flavors they made, I had pretty high hopes for the new variety pack and it delivered. The lemon flavor reminds me of Sprite, and the tangerine is unlike anything I have tried from other brands. Overall, I give the Claws five-out-of-five stars.
Truly Not So Great Truly released a line of four new lemonade flavors early this year. Their ‘mix pack’ is similar to White Claw’s in price and will run you about $14 to $18 depending on where you pick them up. As far as flavors go, the lemonade pack includes black cherry, original, mango and strawberry. They sell the original lemonade flavor in a 24-ounce can as well for $2 to $3. Of the four brands mentioned, these new Trulys were my least favorite. Though they’re marketed as a hard seltzer, I felt they did not contain enough carbonation to fall under that category. They came off as extremely sweet to me, and the flavors sort of blended together so much that I couldn’t really tell the difference between them. The Truly drinks get a two-star rating in my book. 48
SPRING 2020 | ISSUE TWO
