Tropical Sodas

I’ve just discovered Waialua tropical flavored sodas; picked up a box of 12 on my latest trip to Costco. They’re good! Rather like mildly flavored soda pop – not cloyingly sweet and syrupy.

The case contained four bottles of three flavors: Mango, Pineapple and Lilikoi (passion fruit). According to their website, they also make root beer and vanilla cream.

The drinks are sold in old-fashioned long-neck glass bottles, no aluminum cans, which makes them kind of retro.

They also use local ingredients: Maui cane sugar, Big Island vanilla, and Kauai honey.

The sodas are produced by Waialua Soda Works, a relatively new bottler that was founded in 2003 and is located on Oahu’s North Shore, in the sleepy little sugar plantation town of Waialua.

You can find the tropical sodas in Hawaii, Southern California, Arizona and Nevada.

You’ll need a bottle opener, unless you know how to open capped bottles via the “whack” method.