Back in ’98, the Redmond-based Orca Beverage started bottling cream soda and cherry cola under the brand name Moxie, originally the name of a “nerve food” elixir dating back to turn-of-the-century New England.

But now Orca’s added original Moxie to the lineup, as sold at Larry’s Markets and through the Seattle Beverage website.

I sipped it at Seattle Center on a 90-degree afternoon, and easily imagined myself back with the elegant ladies and gents seen strolling along old amusement-park midways in old Moxie ads. The stuff turns out to be a root beer-like concoction with a noticable twang and a modest but definite energy drink-like herbal kick. And like all Orca-bottled sodas, it’s made with real sugar and filled in real glass bottles. Astounding.