Tap water
Best answer.
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!
Don’t worry, still solid advice ;)
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.
Sinalco Cola from Germany https://sinalco.de/produkte/cola
Jolly Cola from Denmark
Cuba Cola from Sweden
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)…
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
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.
Breizh Cola, from Brittany in France https://www.breizhcola.bzh/
Molecola from Italy! It is really good! https://molecolaitalia.it/
Vita Cola from Germany https://www.vita-cola.de/
Not from the EU, but from Switzerland if that also counts: Vivi Kola
and goba cola goba cola
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