At this point in the year I’m struggling to think of booze I haven’t yet reviewed, so I’ve taken to perusing the aisles of Leith Liquor and squinting at the shelves to see if anything’s unfamiliar. And well well well, what do we have here? New-to-the-scene Franky’s, yet another fizzy-drink RTD – this time coming in Lemon Crush (boozy lemonade) and Cola Lime (boozy coke).
To start with the good, the Cola Lime is fucking delectable. It’s like an alcoholic Karma Cola, but with lime. The way it dances on your tastebuds is akin to a romp in the meadows with my lover before he ships out for World War II. Seriously, this drink makes me feel like how Noah must have felt standing on the porch of that house in The Notebook, but without all the dementia and dying. Franky’s Cola Lime is so lovely and refreshing that it almost makes me forget that time my dad left.
Moving onto the less good one (but certainly not bad) the Lemon Crush flavour is like a better Monsuta, but burpier and therefore less scullable. A few points removed from it for that. But overall, it manages to clear up the taste of “stinky urinal cake laced piss” of the aforementioned Monsuta. Instead, it pleasantly tastes like a freshly squeezed lemonade you’d get at a farmers market jaunt with your grandparents whilst your parents are out on a Valentine's date. This particularly comes into effect when you have had more than two in a half hour. The foam builds and it gets a bit gnarly, but WHEN I SEE THE FOAM I’M IN MY ZONE (hello, niche community). This is certainly a summer sipper, the ultimate companion to a sunburn and sand between your toes.
Honestly, this stuff is kinda fire. This beautiful duo of bevs are so awesome we ended up missing the Baaa Bar pub quiz cos we didn’t wanna put them down – and that’s saying something. The flavours are very old school and boy, oh boy, do I fuck with that.
Taste: *fire emoji*/10
Scullability: 6.7/10
Pairs well with: Forbidden love, house building, forgetting the old dude gets dementia at the end of The Notebook
Hangover Rating: 5/10 (worth the mid-week piss-up)