Store with best bottled soda variety now that Yum is gone?
Sonoma Market has a good selection
Mollie Stone in Marin has a good selection: Green River, Jack blacks, Cricket, Black lemonade, Bubble Up, IBC, Virgels, IBC, Stewarts, Henry Weinhards, Crush, Dublin Dr. Pepper.
Mollie's is selling a good new ginger ale ... Stirrings ... real sugar ... no junk.
http://www.chowhound.com/topics/388074
Did a back to back of Dublin Dr. Pepper to regular. The regular was flatter without as much flavor. Dublin had deeper flavor and nice carbonation. The bottle was the size of the little Orangina bottles ($1.89).
However, neither iSonoma Market nor Mollie Stone is … Yum.
By rworange
on Apr 3, 2007 08:02 PM
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Not sodas or ginger ale, but Cost Plus World Market is carrying a line of Stirrings "all natural" fruity Martini mixes:
http://tinyurl.com/37tkxp
CPWM does have a line of Jones' sodas and a few other eccentric ones, plus a veritable United Nations of bottled waters.
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BevMo had a surprisingly good selection last time I went -- several different brands with cane sugar. Just fyi I was shocked to find Dublin Dr. Pepper at Scotty's Market in San Rafael last week (less than $1.89, but don't remember by how much).
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Oh, yeah ... Scotty's ... they do have a good selection. I'm most surprised about many places sell Jones soda. Many of the tiny Mexican markets in my area of the East Bay seem to sell it.
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How about store that carries Blenheim's? I have a small supply from Yum, but that's only going to last so long.
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Uh, I may have seen it at Mollie Stone's and just forgot about it. Give them a call.
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I was in the vicinity of Cost Plus World Market (SF FishWharf) and went in to do a casual survey just for you. They had at least three brands of Ginger Ale/Ginger Beer with cane sugar and real ginger: Bundaberg (sp?), Boylans and Ginger People. They also had at least half a dozen other obscure (to me) soft drink lines.
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Thanks. I'll check it out.
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I just remembered that Avatar's Punjabi Burrito in downtown Mill Valley has a great selection in their fridge. Last time they had a ginger beer from (I think) Australia that I'd never seen before -- very dark, with ginger pieces in a stubby bottle. It may have been Bundaberg. They also sometimes carry another brand that I like -- Fizzy Lizzy, just carbonated water and fruit juice, no sugar.
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Powell's in Windsor,
http://www.chowhound.com/topics/36635...
though the merchandising has shifted since the time of my post.
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The BevMo stores in both Daly City and San Francisco carry lots and lots of unusual sodas, including many from small regional U.S. artisan soda manufacturers. I like that they display the regional ones by flavor rather than brand.
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I noticed today at Falletti's they had a good selection. On Broderick between Oak and Fell street.
See my funny soda pictures, these were in a window in San Miguel Allende
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I forgot about this, but Milk Pail Market in Mountain View has an excellent selection of Soda. They also have a big variety within each group. So, for example, there are varieties of Jones Soda that can't be found elsewhere.
Also, they are EXCELLENT about special orders, so they will order any soda you are looking for. This is their policy for all products. A GREAT place to get things that can't be found elsewhere. And actually, even though it is a trek, it is a substitute for Yum in terms of special ordering anything.
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