Review: Simply Spiked Lemonade Variety Pack
Simply Spiked Lemonade was just released and it is available in a four flavor, 12 can variety pack. Coca-Cola and Molson Coors have once again partnered in creating the brand. They also collaborated on Topo Chico Hard Seltzer. Coca-Cola acquired the Minute Maid brand in 1960. It was their first non soft drink acquisition. In 2001 Minute Maid launched Simply Orange made from 100% never frozen never from concentrate orange juice. Simply is now Coca-Cola’s second largest brand generating over $1 billion in revenue. Simply Orange is the second best selling orange juice brand in the US only trailing the Pepsi-Cola Company owned Tropicana brand in orange juice sales. In 2006 they launched Simply Lemonade made from pure filtered water, non-GMO lemon juice, cane sugar, and natural flavors. They have since added Simply Light Lemonade which is made with a blend of sugar and stevia. Simply Spiked Lemonade is made from a fermented cane sugar base with natural flavors and 5% real fruit juice including lemon juice from concentrate and flavor specific fruit juice concentrates. Like Simply Lemonade Light it is made with a blend of sugar and stevia extract. The main challenge I see with the brand is that each 12 ounce can weighs in with 170 calories and 18 sugar grams. The leading hard seltzer lemonade brands produced by Truly, Bud Light, White Claw, and Vizzy all tip the scale with only 100 calories, and no more than 1 sugar gram. On paper Simply Spiked Lemonade aligns more with Mikes Hard Lemonade and the 220 calories and 32 sugar grams found in each bottle of Mikes. Read more 