I remember a friend of mine from the University brought me along to one of the LAN parties in his home town. And one of the things he told me to look forward to was that they sold Bawls Guaraná at the party. He was right, they did and it was the first time I’d tasted it. I liked it.

They were blue bottles of glass, with kind of a bumpy texture of a surface. Looks like these bottles look about the same, or even exactly the same, still, judging from results on Google Images.

I first heard of it from watching PurePwnage, then it became a hipster soda in my town a few years later. 05/06 was an interesting time.

I think I've had it once or twice, but nothing memorable. The real tragedy is that I haven't been able to find Stewarts Key Lime locally in the better part of a decade.

How about Josta? It was my absolute favorite as a teenager.

Bawls is still sold today, but hard to find. They have an online store too, if you can stomach the shipping costs…