soda

Nothing screams Cal more than bright, screaming students running on Sproul trying to make it past Sather Gate while getting flyered by tabling clubs.

As the heat slowly starts to creep in with the wonderfully bright sun to keep us company, we will all soon feel the urge to drink anything refreshing that's in close proximity. Here is the lowdown on a few popular drinks you may have in your fridge right now.

This summer Eating Berkeley brought you a medley of delicious and refreshing summer drinks and cocktails. Though the cloudy, grey days have been signaling the return of pumpkin spice and hot chocolate, we at the Clog aren't quite ready to let go of the sunny days of the past. With game days coming up and the promise of catching some rays in the next couple weeks, we thought we'd share our most thirst-quenching and revitalizing drinks. We made you smoothies and sodas, martinis and mojitos, but mostly we guzzled gin like our very lives depended on it. So read up, plan a party, sunbathe and have your muddler at the ready, but most importantly, enjoy.

Lovers of fast food burritos rejoice, Chipotle will be quenching your thirst all throughout the month of September. Whether you're a burrito or a bowl kind of person, we at the Clog are sure you'll be able to agree that this is a worthwhile promotion. High school, college and graduate students just have to show their IDs when making an in-store food purchase to be eligible to receive the free drink. Note, however, that those delicious Izze sodas won't be included in the free drink promotion, nor will other bottled juices and sodas. Fountain drinks and iced tea will have to suffice.

I love summer and I love soda, but commercial sodas are so packed with refined sugar and unnatural shit that I frankly can't stomach it. So, I decided to make my own. I went to Berkeley Bowl and browsed the produce section to see what moved me. I spied a beautiful bounty of fresh, young ginger root and that inspired me to make ginger lime syrup. I picked up a piece of regular ginger and a piece of young ginger, which has a thinner, lighter skin and slightly sweeter, less intense flavor.