 Do we have a new contender for the low-carb spiked seltzer? King? Stay tuned to find out. Hey there NJBoot22.com. We're back with another booze review Today it's going to be about the wild basin boozy sparkling water We'll talk about this in a second. First, we're going to make a drink Here's how we do it. I'm picking this lemon hibiscus Sorry, lemon agave hibiscus Flavor from the new wild basin that we picked up. I'm going to show you real quick how we do it. First we take some ginger root Here's what I like to use and I have a glass of ice With experience, you know, it's about six or seven or eight ice cubes in a 32 ounce ball jar Because you want to get exactly 12 ounces of booze and 12 ounces of non-alcoholic seltzenet. First thing I do is I put a capsule of ginger root in That's my Health aspect. I just like ginger. That's a lot of flavor. And second I take a little squirt of lemon I usually use fresh and today I'm using fresh squirt it into my My cup there my bowl jar whatever you want to call it And I'm gonna stick my seltzer either a spiked seltzer in As you can see it's going in nice and I didn't come prepared with my non Alcoholic seltzer, but I'm while this fizzles down. I'm gonna go get that be right back That doesn't really matter what seltzer use to mix it pick your your favorite I'm I mix it up just to keep it interesting using an Arizona that I picked up recently I think I'm doing a story about that. I'm NJ22.com As you can see, you know depending on the ice cube sometimes you're left with a little extra but the reason I'm here today is to talk about the reason why we drink seltzer real quick first of all I wish a heavy-duty wine drinker red wine and after Enough Excessive consumption call it with the wine excessive. I wasn't feeling right my body wasn't liking whatever Sulfites or whatever that work in it. So here's my by the way. Here's the drink. It's all done I'm gonna show you that the contender right now the contender for best Spike sparkling seltzer smear off. I'll show you on the main screen too This has been my go-to for two months solid Like you drink less. You don't have a hangover. There's no internal bleeding. No liver pain. I love it four and a half percent alcohol and I usually cut it down 50% so I'm getting about two and a quarter percent alcohol per Court that I drink and it helps you get a mild buzz. You fall asleep nice and and There's no bad hangover What we're reviewing today is the wild Basin Wild Basin is a new thing. We picked up less than a week ago It's hardly available in this area. I found it at At the bottle King in Hackett's town or Mansfield I think it's on the border of Mansfield and Hackett's town, New Jersey way up there on the west side of Jersey Now the reason I became interested in this wild Basin is because Number one, it's always good to have a backup Like plan B just in case something happens because I can't find these smear offs At every store and if they do they usually have the six pack which is is Economically less favorable than buying the 12 packs. Usually they charge about 10 bucks for six cans and these I can get for About an average price about 1399 for a 12 pack when I buy two And these had I tried a bunch of them truly what whatever that wild claw or whatever it's called There's a couple other brands out there Some of them have as many as five grams of carbs per can if you drink 12 let's say that's 60 grams of carbs a night Versus this is only 12 grams of carbs for the whole thing In this particular instance, I I can't drink 12 anymore. My alcohol consumption has Tolerance has gone down Significantly a as I've lost weight B as I got off the two bottle of wine a night have it So this is six grand. Let's on average. I drink about six cans a night That's the equivalent alcohol about a 13 and a half percent Bottle of wine so I'm drinking the equivalent of about maybe a bottle of wine a night It takes a long time to four four five six hours So this was my gold standard the smear note and every one of the other seltzers that we looked at were Much higher in carbs. That's not something I want to do. I mean One gram of carb is too much for me to begin with so To enjoy alcohol smear and off was the gold standard So every every package I looked at was always higher double or triple in the the number of carbs Some had actual sugar and then I found this a week ago Brand new for this area wild basin boozy sparkling water Um, and I looked at the the box and there was a couple reasons it compelled me a it was a new set of flavors Whereas uh the smear off had you know, your usual is a cranberry lime water melon lemonade berry raspberry rosé I like them. They're all good. Even the one I hated the most the cranberry lime is is tolerable for me now This one had new flavors. So this was one reason it was interesting. We had You know classic lime, which didn't excite me cucumber peach. Okay, that sounds good melon basil interesting lemon lemon agave Obiscus I'm like, okay. That's great. And what I've also got me besides the zero sugar and one gram carbs was five percent alcohol Providing so that's about a 10 percent or so increased In alcohol per can over the smear off my hmm Could be fun. Maybe I'll drink less. Maybe I'll drink more and get a bigger bus. Who know But let's get to the taste real quick I need to tell you which cans are the best and I'm I'm almost certain everyone will agree with me Before we do that, let's talk about who makes this um I never heard of oscar blues brewery before but in uh in Retrospect I have because have you heard of a beer called dale's pale ale? I drank that a long time ago in the 90s. I think that was their first Beer they had and it's a pretty good beer. It's um, I think I got gas for it But it had a nice punch from back in my beer drinking days And a decent flavor dale um oscar's blue oscar's blues oscar blues Based out of colorado. And here's the video by the way. Take a look at the video for wild basin. You might uh You might enjoy it's about a minute long stay with me Nestled in the mountains of colorado along the saint brain river lies wild basin It's clean pristine and untamed It's our playground And it's the source of water and oscar blues newest product Introducing wild basin boozy sparkling water We exist to keep you running wild and free just like our rivers To bring the natural and flavorful bounty of the wild basin to you Invigorating your adventurous spirit Using only natural ingredients wild basin is crafted in canned to deliver a drink experience that is as pure Refreshing and wild as our colorado home Wild basin keep running wild You can see here. They're marketing this uh, this this new wild basin Uh off the river water of the colorado river basin, I guess it's pure You know I could put any water through a purification process. It's pure Well, they're still gonna have to purify it anyway. So that's just their marketing stick, which I do it. They can do whatever they want um Let's talk about the players first of all the consistency. It's I I think it's pretty much You know, maybe a little more fizzy than the than the smear off Right now i'm drinking the lemon agave And I'm going to share my my opinion in a second. Let's let's start from worst to best, okay Like this is my second night drinking. He saw I I have some experience now I tried the classic line first, uh When we when we opened up the box yesterday This uh is the worst flavor. It's just really really just awful I I don't think they have some sort of fancy marketing on their website, but this If I could not drink this I I would but it when you buy a 12 pack of mixed flavors You get three of each flavor and you you're sort of forced to To drink three of these and I always like to get it over with first So I get the least part and over with uh first the next best flavor I should say is the Lemon agave hibiscus or next to last worst flavor Um this to me tastes a little bit like uh like lemon pledge Um, I I didn't even have a connection with it, but it wasn't as bad as the classic line And if you mix it with enough ginger and fresh lemon And a really stronger uh seltzer you're going to be okay. It's not so bad Now the next flavor is actually somewhat enjoyable. This is the The cucumber peach I really do think they took a chimpanzee and they had all sorts of flavors up on a wall And the chimpanzee just threw darts at it and whatever two flavors the monkey hit they they named it And they said let's make this This is good you taste the peach, but It sort of tastes like an unripe peach you ever get a peach like oh, this looks good and you bite it It's too hard. It has like a not complete taste yet. That's what this cucumber peach tastes like Um, but it's a tick better than the lemon agave hibiscus because it doesn't taste like cleaning And the best flavor in the bunch and I hope they sell this by by the 12 pack one of these days is the melon basil This has I guess I don't even know what real melon it has because it doesn't list the website says all natural flavors It doesn't list any melon flavor any actual melon on on the ingredients But this had the best flavor It didn't taste like a salad It just had this is actually really really good and I will if they ever sell in a 12 pack this will be on the list so that being said Last night I had six cans and I got It's a feeling that I'd never have gotten with six cans with this with the smear north and that was a little bit of a drunky buzzy feeling Wow, I mean it takes probably nine or ten cans of the smear north because I drink really slow Um to get that woozy feeling and I'm not looking to get the woozy feeling I don't need to escape the world But six cans of this wild basin I guess that little uptick in alcohol Uh makes a difference. I I don't know how or why and and also I don't know how they get the sugar out here they say by the carton here that uh The alcohol is from cane sugar. Okay So it's all weird. It's very sugary, but it's has no sugar No added sugar and only one gram of carbs. So they extract the sugar from cane sugar. They don't really explain On the smear north. Maybe they have On their website, but this may have just the alcohol source may come from somewhere else on here But the buzz is completely different On the boozy sparkling water from wild basin and oscar blues uh brewery um I have to say it's it's probably I'm gonna add one quick thing here The other seltzers I drank In the beginning uh the truly and other other brands Um, they made me feel I I used the word soulless or soul sucking something happened. It didn't feel right um, these two Don't get that weird feeling The smear north is more of a gentleman's buzz truly gentlemen's buzz the wild basin Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's uh, definitely a happier buzz Um, probably a more irresponsible buzz Uh, it's more of a buzz and Again, I can pick this up for 27 98 case of 24 um at the job right liquors in clinton And this I can pick I picked up at the bottle king for 29 98 a case with our discount Um, and I don't know if I can find this somewhere else cheaper, but this is worth picking up if Again, this is almost a deal breaker this this classic line flavor I it's it's really bad. I mean I I can band aid it with Extra lemon and and a more powerful or non alcohol accent seltzer to water it down, but What do you think of this is it worth by a few I I think it's a contender It'll be in our rotation for the time being because of its low carb rating and zero sugar Um added so that's our initial review for wild basin If something changes if they expand their their flavors Or allow us to buy the melon basil in a 12 pack that that's about it But for now we give it a two thumbs up overall because of the New flavor and the fact that it's only one gram of carbs per king. That's it Enjoy the rest of your week