Avitae Sparkling Water, Mandarin Passion 90mg Caffeine | No-Crash Coffee & Soda Substitute | Green Coffee Bean Extract, Zero Chemicals, Zero Sugar, Zero Calories (12 Pack)

New Review: Edited from 5 star to 1 starI drank this stuff for years and loved it. They must have changed the water source over the last year or so, though, because now it tastes super sewagey and makes me nauseated. I hate that I can’t drink it anymore. As you can tell from my original review below, I loved it :(———————-Original Review:I hate, HATE, coffee. I can only drink it with a butt-load of cream and sugar. The only coffee-like product I can drink is a mocha, but that has more calories in it that I should probably even eat in a whole day! Because of this, I drink a lot of soda to get the caffeine I need just to function. Even if I drink calorie-free, diet soda, I'm still drinking a bunch of sugar and God knows what other kind of gunk. I've been saying for years, "I just want water with caffeine!" Well, the other day I did some googling and found this. The website said it was available at all my local Walgreens and here on Amazon.I got a bottle at Walgreens to test it before ordering a whole case here-not trusting the whole "tasteless" pitch. I opened it in the car and was so impressed by it I went back in and bought a few more. Since I got these last week I haven't even had a single soda (despite a previous at least 4 cans a day addiction). I take a bottle to work and since it has as much caffeine as two cans of coke, I feel pretty great. I just keep refilling the bottle up the rest of the day with the water from the water cooler at work and don't find the need to go to the machine for a soda.I read the one star reviews and am not sure why they don't appreciate the taste. I don't get any aftertaste from it. It may be that they are more accustomed to drinking bottled water than I am. Personally, it tastes like water to me. But, I also have, until now, refused to pay for bottled water. I've always considered it a waste of money. So, perhaps it isn't good to those types of water connoisseurs, but for this ex-soda addict it is perfect.Also, to the whole "just get caffeine pills instead" comments I see in the low scores, I am much more comfortable with this. I feel that any of that other stuff has a much higher chance of making me OD or go all Jessie Spano.P.S. I'm now a monthly subscriber to this stuff :)

Final July 2017 Update: Done with Avitae. Period. Bottle caps are practically fused to each bottle, making it impossible to open without a lot of careful cutting. If I can't open your bottles, it's useless. Have switched over to caffeinated Crystal Light, which is much cheaper per serving as well.July 2017 Update: I've ordered several times this year and the quality is always... different. Taste seems to change a great deal from batch to batch, to barely any taste at all to very bitter. I generally drink it cold and watered down with ice, which negates most issues related to taste in any event.Extremely frustrating, however, are the caps. In some batches, the caps have come off entirely with barely any twisting - including the safety collar on the cap that is supposed to stay on to indicate the bottle hasn't previously been opened. In others, I literally have to take a knife to the cap to pry/cut the bottle open.Long story short: quality control from Avitae is extremely spotty, from the product itself to its packaging. From what little there is about Avitae in the news, it sounds like the company has an extremely small staff and, as one would expect, outsources all the bottling and other processes associated with the drink. That's fine - many small companies do that. But they desperately need to expend more resources on quality control and focus on getting the taste of their core products right and their bottling consumer-friendly.Avitae is fine. For now. But I'm looking into alternatives.Feb 2017 Update: since posting the below, I have ordered many more bottles of Avitae and have had no issues with floaters. Upgraded from 1 to 4 stars. Whatever issues there were seem to have been sorted out.I don't drink coffee and wanted to cut back on soda while still getting my daily caffeine boost. Avitae seemed like the perfect option. At least until I came back here to reorder a couple dozen bottles more from Amazon. Before I ordered, I noticed that many reviews noted weird white floaties in their bottles. So I inspected my three remaining bottles and found the same weird white floaties in two out of the three.And now I'm wondering just how many bottles of what looks like moldy water I have drunk over the last few weeks.What kind of quality control permits this sort of awful thing?I'm done with Avitae.