Help - I need Coke

This is a sequel to my HelloPeter complaint from 9 October 2022 (15:06). In that case I got lucky and found a proper batch the very next week.

Can I please get some Coke that actually tastes like Coke without any weird after tastes or smells? My taste senses are quite fine so ever since the standards of Coke has dropped, I've been struggling to get Coke that is drinkable. With Coke it is either one of two extremes: Awesome or disgusting. I stopped buying Coke for years until I discovered some drinkable batches last year and have been very happily consuming Coke until about February. Since then there has been no drinkable Coke.

Here are the batches that I've bought and tried (by expiry date): Awesome batches: I was fortunate enough to find drinkable/awesome batches that expire on 14 September, 14 December, a batch in January and February (can't remember exact expiry dates) and specifically: 2, 3, 21 and 24 March (my stock however ran out around end of March)

Disgusting batches that I've tried since then from all over South Centurion: - April: 3, 20, 24, 25, 27 - May: 1, 4, 9, 13, 16 - June: 3, 6, 7, 9, 11, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 28 - July: 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 11, 15, 18, 20, 25, 26, 31 - August: 1 & 2

So since March when I started recording the batches, out of 42 different batches, only 4 were drinkable. At the moment I'm drinking one or two cans a day of imported Cherry Coke which is ok, but not ideal (and expensive on top of it).

I'm starting to give up on finding a decent batch again so I just want to try and find out where exactly the contamination is happening. Do you manufacture the syrup here in SA or is that being imported and you only mix the imported syrup with bad water? If the syrup is being imported, I'm open to looking at the option of maybe getting a fountain setup myself like the restaurants have and "manufacturing" my own Coke with proper water. However, I don't want to spend all that money if the syrup is already contaminated with whatever causes the bad after tastes and smells.