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I’d like to update this after retrying some of my favorites from the list - I would now tie Stewart’s Black Cherry with Boylan’s for the top slot. They’re a little different from each other (Stewart’s is sweeter like a classic soda shop version of the flavor, Boylan’s has an almost earthier...

Cherry Limeaid sounds pretty awesome!

By the way, if you guys end up trying any of the sodas I sampled, please let me know what you think - I hope I don’t steer anyone wrong. And I’m always up for a good one, so if you find one I’ve missed, let me know!

Here is a long overdue completed ranking of the sodas I sampled - I've included all cherry varieties in the one list rather than breaking out by sub-varieties, but it holds true if you want to look at just all of the black cherries compared only to themselves: 1. Stewart's Black Cherry Wishniak...

-IBC Black Cherry Soda 170 calories per 12 oz serving, sweetened with cane sugar The flavor splits difference between the more natural flavor of Dr Brown’s or Boylan’s and the sweeter finish of Stewart’s, but with sharper carbonation and a less syrupy mouthfeel. It’s a top five choice that...

I found one more to taste!

That’s the last of them! I’ll try to have a ranking and summary within the next few days.

-Stewart’s Black Cherry Wishniak Soda 180 calories per 12 oz serving, sweetened with cane sugar This is an absolutely wonderful black cherry soda, which presents with tight, sharp bubbles out of the bottle which open up to a more relaxed fizz when sipped out of a glass. Suitably sweet but...

Please feel free to compare me to Captain Pike at any time! :D

Haha, I’m normally the one in our relationship that remembers those details! Upon further reflection, she only had one of those and not a set, and thinks it might have come from a restaurant that was closing down years ago. So a restaurant or bar supply store might be the place to check. You...

-Dr. Brown’s Black Cherry Soda 180 calories per 12 oz serving, sweetened with sugar or high fructose corn syrup (explanation below) The traditional accompaniment to a classic New York Jewish style deli, this black cherry soda from Dr. Brown’s packs a strong cherry flavor that’s well balanced...

I have mixed feelings on diet drinks in general (the various artificial sweeteners don’t taste right to me for one reason or another), but I appreciate their value because they also helped me transition from being a “multiple full sugar drinks a day” person to “artificially sweetened drinks and...

I just have the Stewart’s Black Cherry to go and, if I can find it at a store easily, a Dr. Brown’s. Working on a ranked list too. I hope you guys will come back and share your thoughts if you ever get to try any of them. Taste is such a subjective thing and so hard to put into words that I’m so...

Good question but I have no answer - it came with my wife when we got married. She thinks it could have been IKEA or Crate & Barrel forever ago but could have been something else too.

-Boylan Black Cherry Soda 170 calories per 12 oz serving, sweetened with cane sugar A wonderful soda that is subtly different but equally enjoyable from the glass or over ice. Sharply fizzy and somehow delicate simultaneously, the fizz gives way to a subtlety sweet black cherry taste that...

Spring Grove Black Cherry Soda Pop 170 calories per 12 oz serving, sweetened with pure cane sugar This one is about the same from the bottle as from an iced glass. It has a sharper fizz than some of the weaker entries, which goes well with the extra hint of syrupy sweetness that’s more...

-Cool Mountain Black Cherry Soda 140 calories per 12 oz serving, sweetened with pure cane sugar This is a weak soda that is helped marginally by being poured into an icy glass. Lightly fizzed with tight, sharp bubbles, the drink doesn’t have the heft that a soda should. While what little...

-Blue Sky Organic Black Cherry Soda 150 calories per 12 oz serving, sweetened with organic invert cane sugar This one might be controversial. I think it’s a good drink, but not a good black cherry soda. This highly carbonated soda is definitely better in a glass than out of the can; from...

Hey, I’m not writing about wine :D Thanks so much for the kind words. I can’t believe I’m doing it either and yet here we are. I think I have like four or five left unless the supermarket surprises me with an extra option.

-Fitz’s Black Cherry Soda 170 calories per 12 oz serving, sweetened with pure cane sugar This is a solid black cherry soda. It has a rich but easy fizz that goes down just as smoothly from iced glass and bottle. The black cherry flavor is there, although sometimes it gets a little lost in...

-Harmony Springs Black Cherry Soda 120 calories per 12 oz serving, sweetened with pure cane sugar This one comes stubbornly close to perfection while staying frustratingly far from it. The carbonation is full and vibrant without being overwhelming. The mouthfeel is light and pleasant. It...

On to the actually Black Cherry sodas! -Deadworld Premium Zombie Black Cherry Soda 180 calories per 12 oz serving, sweetened with sugar While the label promises something fit for a Halloween party, what’s in the bottle is more suited for a child’s juice box. (It’s the same experience from...

-Virgil’s Black Cherry Cream Soda 160 calories per 12 oz serving, sweetened with unbleached cane sugar. The bottle said to serve child without ice, but for the purpose of this tasting and sake of fairness, I’ve tried it both with and without. And despite the advisory, I found it to taste...

-Baumeister Cherry Soda 178 calories per 12 oz serving, sweetened with cane sugar Of all the bottles that came in the mail, my wife liked the look of this one the best - even though she doesn’t like cherries or soda, she thought the label invoked the kind of carefree idyllic summer that no...

-Dang! Italian Cherry Soda 180 calories per 12 oz serving, sweetened with sugar I was in Italy last fall and it was an unbelievable culinary experience and I had lots of local sodas but nothing that wasn’t citrus. Needless to say, I was pretty curious about this one. (Though it turns out not...

You know, I’m not sure if Black Cherry Soda is more regional in general, or if (and I don’t say this as a bad thing) the stereotypes of California being a more health conscious state maybe means some of these just aren’t as easily found or regularly promoted there? From the bottle in the sample...

I know, right?

Between this and the hot dog thread, I’m never eating or drinking healthy again! :D

I miss Dublin Dr Pepper. That was amazing.

As a bucket list thing, I’d like to visit a place where I can unironically order a pop.