- If berries could cry, it's basically just like the tears.
- Well I only have one hint of berry tears.
(laughing)
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- Today we're going to be ranking
- Spiked seltzers.
- Yes, we are.
And I am scared to death.
- I mean I've tried 'em.
They had White Claw at work a couple weeks ago.
- I am a lightweight so I'm pretty sure
I'm gonna be drunk by the end of can one.
- We're gonna have to taste these and then best out of six.
- Oh, okay.
So first can is Cape Line and I have blackberry Mojito.
And I actually drink Mojitos so I'm kind of, I'm interested.
- I couldn't help but notice this has the most calories
of all of them.
Which hopefully is a good sign, that means that they put
a little extra flavor in here.
- I will say this Cape Line, I've never heard of.
- Yeah, same.
- Cheers. - What flavor,
- You got Margarita? - Margarita, what do you have?
- Hard strawberry lemonade.
- Okay, I'm hopeful for these.
- It already smells a lot like blackberry.
- Cheers.
- Oh, I like it.
- This tastes like candy.
- This tastes kind of like a margarita.
- If I had like a box of these,
I would think it was like Kool-Aid.
- You know, I could see that the nice little sparkle here
can be refreshing on a warm day.
- I have high hopes for this one.
So I have to say the aftertaste of this one does taste
kind of like Christmas.
- Christmas? - But the first flavor does
taste like a margarita though.
- Like the blackberry comes in so strong and then
all the sudden it just fades away into carbonated water.
- Wanna try it, I mean.
- I kinda do.
Do you wanna try this one?
- Oh yeah, mine's way better than yours.
- Oh, yours is so much better.
- I'm gonna be generous.
I'm gonna say that this is maybe a four.
- You know what. - I feel like it could
get much worse than this.
So there's room for two at the bottom.
- Yeah, that's a two for sure.
- This is a two. - Yeah.
- We'll go with four.
- Four. - Four.
- Smirnoff time.
- Now Smirnoff I've heard of.
I've not had this beverage but I feel like Smirnoff
knows what they're doing, right?
- (mumbling) - 90 cals on this one.
- Which flavor did you get for that one?
- I got Pina Colada. - Oh, that sounds good.
- What did you get?
- I got cranberry lime.
- This is also a berry lemonade.
What's your flavor?
- I got a Pina Colada.
- Wow, classy.
- I think I was right about Smirnoff.
- Oh, these are all gonna taste about the same.
- Oh, that's a silly drink.
- This doesn't taste like anything.
- Try this one. - I mean it's.
- Now this one's pretty good.
- That's not bad, yeah.
- The fruit flavor of the Pina Colada
is actually a lot smoother.
- Imagine that on ice?
- It would be nice. - On like, a boat.
But not like a yacht, 'cause we're broke.
- I would say for me this one's like a three.
- We'll go with three on this one, I agree.
- Three.
- Maybe we can push the Cape Line back to three
and put this one at two.
- I'm fine with that.
I think it's the one but we'll go with two.
Third one is Truly.
- Now I've heard of this one.
I've never had it but this is I think one
of the more popular ones.
- What flavor did you get on that one?
- Hints of wild berry.
- With a hint of black cherry.
- You have hints, plural?
- Yeah, wild berry.
- I only have a singular hint.
(laughing) - That worries me.
- Smell that.
- Oh, it does smell good.
- This one's not bad.
I think yours smells better though.
- Oh, this one smells stronger.
- Oh, actually you know what,
this smells really yummy to me.
- Yeah, yeah.
No.
- I can't taste anything.
- Oh, you're drunk.
- It really is just a hint.
- I'm not really getting a lot of like, berry flavor.
It just tastes like carbonated water
with, like, a hint of something sweet.
- Think six?
- Five. - Five.
- I'm gonna rank this a five.
- I think five is solid.
I'm glad we left room at the bottom.
- Right?
- Because Truly was on the way.
- Truly.
- Fives. - Fives.
- High Noon.
- Okay. - High Noon Sun Sips.
- Okay, here's what I'll say. - I know.
- I enjoy this art direction here.
- I like that it's made with real juice.
I didn't see that at first.
- That is nice.
I don't think the other ones were made with real juice.
- This feels like classic, almost retro,
like, sunshine, happy day at the beach kind of thing.
I'm into the branding here.
- And then it's got a cute
- Little watermelon. - Can't go wrong
with a cute little watermelon.
- This is really good.
- You think so?
- Oh.
- I don't care for it.
- You don't?
- I think this might be our first big disagreement.
- Oh, no, no, no!
- It definitely has a much stronger flavor.
- And I kinda like it.
It's, doesn't taste like watermelon.
- Oh, it tastes more like cucumber than watermelon.
- This tastes like someone dissolved
a watermelon Jolly Rancher in a La Croix.
- I guess we gotta go four.
- Has it grown on you?
Do you not like it?
- I'm mostly just thirsty.
- This one has been the best out of all of 'em.
- So this is our new three.
It grew on me a little bit.
- Wild Basin.
(laughing)
Boozy sparkling water.
(moaning)
- Classic lime. - Oh.
- Cucumber peach.
Which I enjoy the creativity there.
- I like the branding.
Like, this is definitely striking a chord
with my own personal brand.
- This is the best smelling of them so far.
- Oh, you can smell the peach.
This smells like a margarita.
- Tastes almost like a peach ring.
- You know, like, the lime salt that you put on margaritas?
Like if they literally just put lime salt
into sparkling water.
- I would say this is probably a five.
- So should we bump Truly back to six?
- Yeah. - Yeah, let's do it.
- This is a hard six. - Can this be a six?
- I'm physically putting it at the far end.
- So now is White Claw. (gasping)
- White Claw! - The O.G.
- White Claw.
- I'm super excited.
- Something happened over the course of two months
where White Claw took over the world.
And I think it still lives
in this wonderful space of irony.
- The marketing blitz for these.
Top notch.
These became insanely popular overnight.
- And like-- - Cultural phenomenon.
- How many memes have we seen about White Claw?
- It's a meme in a can.
- I like to think that whoever drinks this,
drinks it ironically for the culture.
- So mine is a raspberry flavor.
- A natural lime.
- Uh.
- No.
Oh, God, that's a six for sure.
- This is my favorite so far.
- It's okay.
And maybe it's just a flavor.
Let's swap.
- All right. - Okay.
- This one was worse than that one.
- Yeah, uh-huh. - Oh, yeah.
- Oh, this one is the best. - A lot better, yeah.
- I'm like, I get it now.
It's number one.
- Believe the hype, people.
- Yeah.
- That's the worst. - These are sixes.
- Yeah, White Claw's definitely a six.
- We can trade back.
- No, I'm keeping this.
(laughing)
- Cool.
- Final rankings.
- Coming in last.
- [testers] White Claw.
- It does have a cool name.
- They all have kind cool names.
- I think we can agree Wild Basin is hot bath water.
- Number five.
- Truly.
Also not a fan.
- Number four.
Wild Basin.
Tastes all right.
- Problem was that this one is so bad
and that one is good so it pulled it down.
- Um what, Cape fear?
- Cape Line. - Cape Line!
- This one's getting off easy here.
(laughing)
If anything, this should be in the Wild Basin territory.
- Number three.
- High Noon Sun Sips.
- I think this one should've been higher
'cause I think it was better than Cape Line.
This one actually has flavor to it.
- That's true.
- I thought that this one was gonna be the worst one
and this one surprised me the most.
- Next one is.
- Smirnoff.
They know what they're doing from the Ice days.
- But also, like if you were gonna buy Smirnoff,
just buy the friggin' bottles.
- Girl loves Smirnoff bottles.
(laughing)
- Cape Line.
- You're welcome, Cape Line. - Pretty good.
- Because you barely beat out High Noon.
- Number two.
- High Noon. - High Noon.
Big fan of the can.
Big fan of the product.
- I just appreciate the fact
that it was like, subtle and smooth.
- So the number one.
- Specifically this one.
Pina Colada. Wow.
This smells like summer.
- Now our new lord and savior.
(vocalizing)
- White Claw.
Crazy bastards did it, they made the best hard seltzer.
- Well, these are our rankings.
From worst to first.
- Step yourself up to a Smirnoff Pina Colada.
- Nobody's too cool for Smirnoff.
- I think White Claw kinda nailed it.
- I mean, like how often do you get something
that actually lives up to the hype?
- Smirnoff.
I don't care what you say, I don't care what you think,
you got the irony factor and also flavor.
- I mean, I can barely make sentences right now.
I am focusing real hard. (laughing)
- All right, well finish that can.
- What?
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