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European coca-cola alternatives

Everyone of course knows Fentimans and Fritz-kola. But there is also Cockta from Slovenia and Kofola from Czechia. Does anyone else knows of local EU coca-cola alternatives that we might want to explore? And of course, where we can buy them online:

Cockta

Kofola

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Mio Mio from Germany

Tap water
- Best answer.

Buy your locally produced Cola. Don't start to import cola produced in Germany to Spain or the Norwegian lemonade to Italy. Don't ship sugar water trough Europe by lorry, we have enough traffic on our motorways already.
- Tbf, that's the upside of a major corporation like Coca Cola. They only transport the syrup and fill the bottles at local factories.

Afri Cola from Germany https://afri.de/produkte/afri-cola/

Fritz Kola from Germany https://fritz-kola.com/en
- Everyone of course knows Fentimans and Fritz-kola
  First sentence by op
  
  Oh wow, how did I miss that? :D Sorry!

Sinalco Cola from Germany https://sinalco.de/produkte/cola

There's easily 100 different kinds of Cola and Cola-Orange ("Spezi") mixes produced in the EU it's easiest to start taste-testing with everything in your local grocery store and finding out if one of them is to your liking. If you're from Germany, there's at least Fritz-Cola, Afri-Cola, Proviant-Cola, Paulaner Spezi (and Spezi made by many other breweries)...

Cuba Cola from Sweden
https://cubacola.nu/

Jolly Cola from Denmark
https://bryggeriet-vestfyen.dk/jolly-cola/?lang=en

In Eastern Germany they have VitaCola, which was their former GDR Cola. They still outsell Coca Cola there, but I guess it's an acquired taste. I personally don't like it very much
https://www.vita-cola.de/
- It tastes ten times better, since it contains some lemon flavor.
  
  Which tastes very artificial IMO.
  But maybe it's just like with Club Mate or Coffee, you need to have a few of them before you like them

In Portugal practically all medium to large chain has its own brand of Cola, competing with Pepsi and Coke.

If I never see a post about Coca Cola alternatives again it will be too soon. Why are all y'all so freaking obsessed?!
- We drink a lot of cuba libre.

Green Cola from Greece

Breizh Cola, from Brittany in France https://www.breizhcola.bzh/

Not from the EU, but from Switzerland if that also counts: Vivi Kola
- and goba cola goba cola

Molecola from Italy! It is really good! https://molecolaitalia.it/

Just a local ripoff. I personally drink blues zero, it tastes the same as Coca Cola zero

Der Dracola
I hadn't tried it myself but saw it suggested somewhere else. It's the austrian Coca Cola version

If you are in germany, i can recommend the kaufland store brands, in my opinion from all store brands they taste the closest to coca cola brands

OMG I love Cockta 😍. It has it's own very nice and distinct taste. But unfortunately it's very hard to get in Germany. And it's also not made in Slovenia anymore but in Croatia. (Which is a pity, but thanks to the Croats for bringing this drink back to life, and marketing it successfully)
Kofola is also very nice, because you can get it fresh from Tap in Slovakia and Czech Republic
Afri-Cola and Fritz-Kola taste both not very good IMO, but the other Lemonades and MischMasch from Fritz are great though

Cuba Cola from Sweden

You can make your own cola syrup, there's a bunch of recipes out there.

https://www.euskola.eus/ In the Basque Country

Spezi, Alaska, Oettinger ColaMix All german. Well atleast from what i know. An app showed me they are owned by coca cola but idk
- That App is wrong...

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