143-Jones Pure Cane Soda

Earlier this year one of my favorite soft drink makers Jones Soda announced that there were doing away with HFCS(High Fructose Corn Syrup) and replacing it with Pure Cane Sugar. Now this is a big deal, because HFCS is for all intents and purposes a chemical. So if you use Sugar your soda should be cleaner tasting.

Now I have been drinking Jones for almost a decade now, and when I originally started drinking it, it came in glass bottles and in a rainbow of flavors. You could also buy it loose by the bottle which was fun. Going to the store and buying a couple of dozen bottles of Jones in a bunch of different flavors. Then suddenly you could only find half a dozen "core" flavors. Then it started coming in four packs of bottles in those core flavors. Then they started coming in 12 packs of CANS in the core flavors. Jones struck a deal a handful of years ago with Target and you can now find a good selection of Jones flavors in cans. Well now that they spent a million dollars replacing all their factory machinery so it can handle the sugar even Wal Mart is carrying cans of Jones Soda.

So this afternoon on my way back from the gaming store I bought two 8 packs. Green Apple and Blue Lemonade I have drank one can of each and I must say...it does taste a lot cleaner. It reminds me of Goose Island Root Beer, which is a brewery in Chicago that does Pure Sugar sodas alongside their beers. If you have never tried Jones or haven't had any in a while I recommend hitting up a Wal Mart or Target and finding Jones Pure Cane Soda and see if you can taste the difference between Jones and regular HFCS sodas.