Talk:Malta (soft drink)

I wonder if 84.etc. had added "generally" before "dark brown" because some brands, or home-brewed malta isn't as dark in color (maybe because it doesn't have as much caramel color?). I've never encountered home-brewed malta and don't even know if there is such a thing. Anybody from a malta-drinking region reading this who knows?

Who drinks it?

Don't Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Panamanians, Venezuelans, etc. drink malta as well? The recent paragraph makes it sound as if it's primarily consumed by Cuban Americans, leaving out the other Spanish-speaking nations of the Caribbean. If they also drink it, that should probably be added to the article. I don't have enough familiarity, having moved away from Florida years ago. Badagnani 17:54, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

     I don't know how popular it is in Cuba, but in Puerto Rico it's definitely one of the most popular   
     soft drinks. I don't know why this article is more attached to Cuba than it is to Puerto Rico, and spanish
     countries in general. Arthur Curry 04:09, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

stub tag

I'm going to remove the stub tag. The article is pretty substantial, especially for a soft drink. --Fang Aili 16:26, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Malta Picture

I took the photo of the Malta bottle and glass at a Miami Cuban American eatery. I think it has been deleted because one of the editors thinks that it might be copy writed. I have to post it again with the clause saying that it was taken by me. How can I prove this. It was a nice picture that illustrated what the drink looks like - I think it would be a shame not to have it.

Add one of the tags listed here to the image description: Wikipedia:Image_copyright_tag#For_image_creators -Lampbane 03:38, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Since another copy of it didn't get deleted, I put that one into the article. --brion 02:32, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Malta "Pony"

I see that someone added "Malta Pony" to the list. Maybe this was added by me - it was a long time ago so I don't know. However, it is interesting to list this brand of Malta because it is a Colombian type malta rather than the more traditional Puerto Rican or Cuban American variety which is more common in North America. It was a good malta and I had several of them at a Colombian eating place. The only difference was a slight taste variation in that artificial vanilla flavor was added as an ingredient, This made the malta mellower, and it gave it a faint sweet "vanilla" taste of course. This Malta is made in Colombia - in Barranquilla to be more precise and it is brewed and bottled by “Bavaria S.A.” in the aforementioned city. On the label there is a Spanish description that say, “Bebida de Campeones” which translates into English as the “Drink of Champions”.

Other Malta brands

Here in PR now we have Malta Polar, but I'm not shure if it is the same Maltin Polar of Venezuela. Also, there was a Food Club Malta, it tasted like crap. Other thing I noticed about Malta is that many of the non-hispanic people who tried for the first time described the flavor as "rotten grapes", so, I guess because we drink it in the early childhood we get used to the flavor. --64.237.176.102 05:34, 29 March 2007 (UTC)Samuel Trujillo

I'm not Hispanic and first tried it in college. I don't agree with that description; to me it tastes like molasses. Badagnani 05:49, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

similarities to kvass?

I wonder if anyone can comment on malta's similarities to kvass (ingredients, manufacture, taste). They appear to be very similar drinks and I was surprised to see there was no reference to either from each's page.

216.9.250.106 18:09, 25 September 2007 (UTC)