Brookvale Union Vodka Red Pub Soda is a 4% ABV Australian premix built around the flavour of a pub vodka raspberry, sold in 330mL cans. It's a creamy red soda style rather than a dry, lean vodka soda, and it drinks easily at one standard drink per can.

The aroma is straight-up red lolly shop: raspberry, a lick of vanilla cream and the sweet, faintly herbal edge of an old-school creaming soda. Vodka sits well back, so what you smell is fruit and fizz rather than spirit.

On the palate the raspberry arrives first and stays bright, carried by fine, persistent bubbles that keep the sweetness in check. Texture is smooth and rounded, with the creamy soda character filling the mid-palate before the finish tidies up clean and short. Sweetness is noticeable but restrained, and the alcohol is subtle enough that the drink stays refreshing rather than syrupy.