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Dear Tommyknocker Brewery People,
I found Tommyknocker Almond Creme Soda once, just once, while I was visiting my family in Nashville, Tennessee, a good four or more years ago. On every subsequent trip (and there have been many), I've returned to that grocery store (a Harris Teeter in Hillsboro Village), searching in vain for that awesome almond soda of my memory, with no success. I've searched my home environs just as thoroughly, here in the San Francisco Bay Area, combing the aisles at grocery chains, health food stores, fancy-shmancy high-living foodie stores, and the cavernous reaches of World Market and BevMo.
No luck.
No luck, and I had to conclude that, sadly, the awesome almond soda (the name of which I couldn't remember) must have been a trial market thing that failed to take off. I resigned myself to a life without almond creme soda. I even began to suspect I'd dreamed the whole thing, like when you read the Best Novel Ever in a dream but can't remember it clearly when you wake up. You only know that you are disappointed not to get to finish it.
Disappointed not to get to drink it again.
And then today I found a remarkable beverage review website that allowed for a search by flavor, so hoping against hope, I searched for almond. And found it! They'd reviewed my beloved almond creme soda, and recently! It was still in production! Maybe, just maybe, for Christmas or New Years or my upcoming birthday, I could acquire some.
I went eagerly to your website, and found, much to my dismay, that it's not sold in California, and the link to order directly from you is "coming soon." Sadness. Sadness indeed.
Is there hope for me? Is ordering from you really coming soon? Is there a way I can actually procure the magic elixir (that doesn't involve me traveling to Colorado), or must I continue to fondly remember it as the Best Soda Pop Ever?
Yours with Good Wishes for the Coming New Year
Zach
I found Tommyknocker Almond Creme Soda once, just once, while I was visiting my family in Nashville, Tennessee, a good four or more years ago. On every subsequent trip (and there have been many), I've returned to that grocery store (a Harris Teeter in Hillsboro Village), searching in vain for that awesome almond soda of my memory, with no success. I've searched my home environs just as thoroughly, here in the San Francisco Bay Area, combing the aisles at grocery chains, health food stores, fancy-shmancy high-living foodie stores, and the cavernous reaches of World Market and BevMo.
No luck.
No luck, and I had to conclude that, sadly, the awesome almond soda (the name of which I couldn't remember) must have been a trial market thing that failed to take off. I resigned myself to a life without almond creme soda. I even began to suspect I'd dreamed the whole thing, like when you read the Best Novel Ever in a dream but can't remember it clearly when you wake up. You only know that you are disappointed not to get to finish it.
Disappointed not to get to drink it again.
And then today I found a remarkable beverage review website that allowed for a search by flavor, so hoping against hope, I searched for almond. And found it! They'd reviewed my beloved almond creme soda, and recently! It was still in production! Maybe, just maybe, for Christmas or New Years or my upcoming birthday, I could acquire some.
I went eagerly to your website, and found, much to my dismay, that it's not sold in California, and the link to order directly from you is "coming soon." Sadness. Sadness indeed.
Is there hope for me? Is ordering from you really coming soon? Is there a way I can actually procure the magic elixir (that doesn't involve me traveling to Colorado), or must I continue to fondly remember it as the Best Soda Pop Ever?
Yours with Good Wishes for the Coming New Year
Zach