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Best Damn Brewing Co. Is Here to Give Your Soda an Upgrade

Picture this. It’s daytime. It’s summer. It’s hot. You don’t want wine because you’ll get too tired, or liquor because its midday. Beer is fine, but it might weigh you down. Enter Best Damn Brewing Co.

Best Damn is an alcoholic soda that’s been under the radar for way too long, but I’m so glad it’s come out of hiding in time for the upcoming warm weather. For the soda-lover in all of us, and those who want to upgrade their ice cream floats, Best Damn doesn’t disappoint.

The sodas come in flavors like Root Beer, Cream Soda, Cherry Cola, Apple Ale and Sweet Iced Tea. The Cream Soda is it’s newest, and I’m sure not the last, innovation.

Each brew has between 4% and 6% alcohol, so it’s kind of like a beer, but much less bitter and more reminiscent of childhood in the playground, but with a twist.

The Root Beer and Cream soda taste just like their counterparts that are alcohol-free, but give the added element of a little buzz with each bottle.

The Cherry Cola will give you all the feels of nostalgia, and the sweet iced tea is a perfectly smooth, tart and refreshing warm-weather beverage.

While it would be so easy to just create a recipe with the Root Beer by adding some ice cream and calling it a Boozy Root Beer Float, Best Damn has other recipes you don’t want to miss. And the drinks would probably be great in any soda cake to give it a little kick.

If you want something “off-the-menu” and slightly more alcoholic, or you prefer to use it as a marinade, check out the recipes they created for their Cream Soda Flavor launch here.

My name is Ashley and I am a food-a-holic. While all my friends went through high school following shows like Gossip Girl and the OC, I spent my nights watching Top Chef and Masterchef. I am always looking for new recipes (mostly sweets to try out). That said, buying sweets is my biggest weakness. I can’t resist a good candy bar and I usually buy at least one snack food a day, be it a Hershey’s bar (dark chocolate, please!), Ring Ding, or Froyo (my kryptonite).

As a native New Yorker, I take advantage of the fact that we have a ton of bests when it comes to food. Best bagels. We’ve got em. Best black and white cookies. We’ve got em. Best Olive Gardens? Well…. Maybe we don’t have those. But I pledge to do my best to find the bests of every type of food and snack, both homemade and in stores, and share them with you.

I love trying new things and telling other people about them so they can share in my joy (and weight gain). I want to share my food finds with others to save them the hassle of sifting through the duds along the way. I hope you enjoy my writing as much as I will enjoy writing it!