{"id":9113,"date":"2020-10-27T17:24:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T23:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theginisin.com\/?post_type=tonicwater&p=9113"},"modified":"2020-10-27T17:24:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T23:24:05","slug":"refreshe-diet-tonic-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/?p=9113","title":{"rendered":"Refreshe Diet Tonic Water"},"content":{"rendered":"

Refreshe is a product of Better Living Brands LLC which is an owned company under the Safeway umbrella<\/a>. Refreshe is indeed a supermarket tonic. I got this bottle for a mere 50\u00a2. Which I suppose is as good of a deal as you can expect to find. Cans were going in a 12 pack for $1.99, or a cool 17\u00a2\/can.<\/p>\n

But I digress. You probably already knew it was inexpensive by the art and the name*. Refreshe Diet Tonic Water is sweetened with saccharin (4mg\/oz.) and has quinine hydrochloride, a salt that contains quinine, the usual bittering agent in tonic waters.<\/p>\n

Tasting Notes<\/h2>\n

A surprisingly persistent head of effervescence forms when\u00a0Refreshe Diet Tonic is poured. A good deal of bubbles stick to both the bottom and the sizes of the glass, but they are fizzing rapidly.<\/p>\n

Pretty much no nose on\u00a0Refreshe Diet Tonic, which can be a desirable attribute in that it will let the gin’s nose come through without modification.<\/p>\n

The palate is surprisingly clean and soda like for the first second-or-so. Medium sized bubbles hit the tip of your tongue, but they’re gone before you really get to the flavor.<\/p>\n

With me, the saccharin tends to hit my detection late. Even later than the quinine comes on. Crisp dull bitterness escalates into a slightly metallic, but never overpowering bitterness.<\/p>\n

It’s on the long finish where I find the cloying peculiarities of saccharin are throwing me off. It makes me pucker, almost as if this was a lemon or lime.<\/p>\n

I mixed up Refreshe Diet Tonic Water with a little bit of Sippewissett Gin<\/a>. It begins gin and soda, the mid-palate is nice, but it clashes on the finish as the sweetness comes in seemingly from the back of the palate.<\/p>\n

Overall<\/h2>\n

Saccharin can be divisive, but fans of Saccharin as their alternative sweetener may that Refresh Diet Tonic hits the spot.<\/p>\n

I like the way it lets the gin shine early, but the onset of the sweetness overpowers the gin flavor at a point where most tonics let it shine through.<\/p>\n

*Design is at a point where as a people, decent design isn’t beyond the reach of most companies, let alone a multimillion dollar company such as Safeway. I figure that brands like this look generic because that certain 80s\/low-effort-futuristic aesthetic sells products, perhaps better than a well-designed label might.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Refreshe is a product of Better Living Brands LLC which is an owned company under the Safeway umbrella. Refreshe is indeed a supermarket tonic. I got this bottle for a mere 50\u00a2. Which I suppose is as good of a deal as you can expect to find. Cans were going in a 12 pack for … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}