This stuff is so good, I'm going to get bloated every night from now on.
I don't drink soft drinks, but a couple days ago after a round in the sauna, I had me this kali and I was saying, Kali ma, shakti de.
All right, enough of the testimonials. Stuff's good, and it's in a glass beer bottle.
The company calls it a "root beer", but it's radically different. Technically kali is -- let's see if I can get this right -- a hopless rye malt near beer with a high specific gravity (sweet), with 0.8% alcohol. Is it the same as KBAC? Ahem. From the Wiki, you get a sense that it is identical, but some might argue that KBAC is soaked rye bread in a tank truck that came around the kolkhoz at lunchtime, while kali is a cold-filtered, pasteurized drink made from hand-selected croutons. KBAC is totally acceptable for consumption by children. With kali, there is some hand-wringing. Descriptions of KBAC often say that it is sour. Kali comes in a glass bottle and is unmistakably sweet. I know what, let's just call it off.
As a taste experience, this kali was as great as when my Cuban godfather brought me some Malta Goya as a kid.
The fact that kali is in a glass bottle has other advantages. I've bitched in the past about preservatives in food in Estonia. It remains all but impossible to find cured meat without E250 series chemicals (nitrates). Even most ordinary domestic cheese has nitrates. You really have to scrounge around in the bigger stores to find some Saaremaa Ekstra or similar premium brand that only has the benign calcium chloride at most.
But A.Le Coq is on side. Like Coca-Cola, they have phased out benzoate in their soft drinks. As of March, Kelluke, which is some classic lemonade drink, is preservative-free.
A word for the competitor: Saku has non-alcoholic beer in a glass bottle, and it has been great for over a year. But they don't have kali in a glass bottle. I have yet to have a good non-alcoholic dark beer anywhere. O'Douls Dark tastes like pot roast -- seriously. But kali comes close to some Czech dark beers like Starobrno.
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Do american foodstaples have nitrates in them? I've never heard anybody complaining. Is this the same as sodium?
There's sodium everywhere.
No, American cheese (take a standard commercial variety like Kraft or Cabot cheddar) does not have nitrates in it. You may remember that American society had a huge colon cancer awareness thing since the late 1980s. Even plain salt-cured bacon is available practically everywhere now (and it tastes better). If you read labels in the states, you'll notice things like ascorbic acid (vitamin C) does a lot of the work when it comes to preventing surface mould etc.
The body needs (some) sodium. It doesn't need the other things, some of which are carcinogenic. So no, it's not the same.
God Bless America!
Leave that to me, son.
American sodas are now doing away with corn sweeteners and going back to real sugar -- for the most part Estonian products did not use many corn products thank god
This is true, but would you believe I don't care that much about differentiating between types of sugar. I find the whole dried cane juice thing to be ridiculous. I guess there's no pleasing me. :)
Of course, industrial production of corn is bad thing on a planetary level, but I don't believe the body distinguishes between types of sugar as much as we would like to believe it does.
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