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bubly bounce
Blood Orange Grapefruit
Zing! says the chipper lil’ pop tab on bubly’s latest offering to the bubbleverse: the bubly bounce. Do you feel the spark between us? asks the frenetic, Lite-Brite inspired can, guaranteed to trigger trypophobia in the susceptible. As anyone familiar with us here at The Bubbleverse will know, we have felt many things regarding bubly, […]
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AHA
Citrus + Green Tea
So it’s obligatory for us to begin any review of caffeinated sparkling water by talking about Hiballs, the life-changing divine nectar that reigns supreme in the bubbleverse. We would drink these all day, every day, if we could. But tragically, we can’t. We mean, we can, at one point we were drinking three a day. […]
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Ardor
Cucumber Mint
We need to talk about Ardor. Their shimmering oculus of caffeinated illumination winked at us from our local Whole Foods shelves a few months ago, and we’ve been entranced by its third eye tractor beam ever since. Who is this mysterious Ardor, and why are their products astonishingly good? We’re enthralled to a sparkling water […]
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San Pellegrino
Essenza Exotic Vanilla & Coffee
Nestlé recently announced it was dumping all of their cheap-ass grocery store water brands (Arrowhead, Deer Park, Poland Spring, good luck out there) to focus on nurturing and cultivating their chosen ones: Frenchy Perrier and fancy Italian Stallion San Pellegrino. Kind of like a Bachelor competition where contestants have been crawling through mud in frilly […]
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San Pellegrino
Essenza Smooth Caramel & Coffee
San Pellegrino recently launched a new line of coffee-flavored Essenzas, hopping on the lightly-caffeinated sparkling water train that left AHA station and has been picking up passengers over the last year or two: bubly, Chirp, Nixie, Limitless, even Signature Selects have all released sparkling waters with about 30-35 milligrams of caffeine. Not one to leave […]
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Ugly Drinks
Fruit Punch Energy Water
Fruit Punch is one of the quintessential flavors of childhood nostalgia. The name alone can conjure halcyon summers of sticky sodas on fingers, greasy hot dogs and a sense of freedom adult existence can never replicate. That sweet and inimitable tropical fruitmalgam wrapped in our memories as the flavor of innocence itself. So when Ugly […]
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Limitless
Ginger Mint
Full disclosure: we like Limitless. We do. But we think the name “limitless” is a little ridiculous for this brand. “Limitless” lol. Like this is some “redbull gives you wings” moment. We’re not exactly sure a sparkling water with 35 mg of caffeine is gonna make us “limitless”, but okay. Sure, Jan. And this isn’t […]
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AHA
Mango + Black Tea
If you like AHA’s Black Cherry + Coffee, we have some bad news for you. It’s been discontinued. But in its caffeinated stead, a Mango + Black Tea has arisen to quench your palate, mildly caffeinate you, and give corn syrup behemoth Coca-Cola more of your hard earned dollars. We love to see it! Actually, […]
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bubly bounce
Mango Passion Fruit
We’re diving back into the bubly bounciverse today. Apparently we are powerless before the inexplicably-beloved and irritatingly-subpar sparkling water brand bubly, which sprang into existence when PepsiCo decided that they needed to make more money. We keep going back time and time again, trying to figure out what we’re missing, and enraging ourselves in the […]
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Ugly Drinks
Mango Soda Energy Water
The third in Ugly’s trifecta of new energy waters, after Mountain Ugly (a Mountain Dew clone) and Fruit Punch (Hawaiian Punch) is…Mango Soda (???). The soda-flavor theme was pretty easy to follow until we got to this one. Maybe we’re living under a sugar-free rock here in the Bubbleverse, but we’re kind of coming up […]
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Ugly Drinks
Mountain Ugly Energy Water
As the sun rises on the hills and hollows of the Bubbleverse, the sparkling, effervescent condensation that forms on the trees and grasses of our pristine wilderness trickles in bubbling rivulets down into crystal clear alpine streams. This is the image that mountain dew conjures to our innocent & naive minds, at least. In reality, […]
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Nixie
Peach Black Tea
Nixie is always taking us on a journey, and we never know quite where we’re going to wind up. With their Lime Ginger we wound up in Colatown, and somehow Watermelon Mint took us to some tropical bubblegum paradise. As fun as slipping into those gustatory wormholes are, thankfully today we’re staying in this dimension. […]
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Chirp
Pink Grapefruit
We have been Hiball devotees for over a decade, and our abiding addiction soul-entwining persists to this day. But while we’ve been lashed to their mast, enraptured by the siren song, a whole ocean of sparkling energy water has tsunamied into the bubbleverse. We were skeptical, convinced that these were imposters, lesser entities, nay, remoras, […]
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Nixie
Pomegranate Green Tea
On today’s Bubbleverse episode, we’re doing a Very Special Nixie. It’s the last in our series of their flavor combos (somehow we’ve missed even trying their solo flavors Grapefruit, Lime & Lemon thus far — we chalk it up to those beguiling sounding match-ups being irresistible vs the idea of pounding yet another Lime). And […]
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Hiball
Sparkling Energy Water
These are not a supplement, but they are the foundation of my mental and physical well-being.
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