There is caffeine free Coke Zero that comes in a black can with gold lettering. Coke’s visual branding for caffeine free drinks is that gold coloring. The top of the can is also gold instead of silver. That said, I’m not entirely sure I’ve seen it around in stores, but it supposedly does exist.
It does exist and it is delicious. If they made a Caffeine Free Cherry Coke Zero I’d arrange for deliveries directly from the bottling plant to my house.
Here’s an interesting development. “Australia’s largest retailer” Woolworths, is refusing to stock the new Coke-No-Sugar flavour at all. I wonder what that will mean when it finally replaces Coke Zero. Which I still hope it won’t, not that anyone could stop it really.
Also today I went to a cafe and ordered a Coke Zero, but got given a Coke No Sugar instead; which was fine for me, I was familiar with this situation, but I bet others have been confused, especially as the packaging is barely any different to regular full-sugar Coke.
There are obviously more important things in this life than sugar free soft drink flavours, but bugger me, they’re really making this as messy as possible.
*basically just a supermarket brand and not related to anything else you may know with the same name; formerly Safeway
Only in Victoria. 
It’s always been Woolworths in NSW & Queensland - the people who founded the Australian company outright [del]nicked[/del] appropriated the name from the US company because in 19dicketywhenever there was literally fuck all anyone could do about it.
The cynic in me wonders if Woolies are possibly considering something new within their own “no brand” range of sugarfree cola.
Strange strategy by Coke.
I’m a very converted Coke Zero drinker, so much so that Full Coke gives me an unpleasent mouth feel. Moving to the UK 18 months ago, I found it quite difficult to get Coke Zero outside of supermarkets and corner stores, and I’ve noticed a bit of new marketing lately, including handing out little 120ml cans outside of a major tube station three times in the last month.
I wonder why they’re withdrawing the product in one market, and actively pushing it in another?
Did they ever do a caffeine free version of any Vanilla Coke? Because I loved that, but can’t do caffeine anymore. I try to roll my own with cream soda, but I don’t know how much to add, or how much vanilla taste the cream soda needs.
Careful what brand of cream soda you use. At least one does have caffeine.
I’d try caffeine-free cola and vanilla syrup.
There are lots of homemade cream soda recipes on the Internet, just a Google away! 
I mentioned upthread not seeing caffeine-free Coke Zero at the local store.
Well: It was there a week ago and I threw in a case with the usual stuff.
Verdict: Waaay too sweet. Practically syrupy. Will not buy again.
This is what I find super confusing - after decades of colour coding the labels of their bottles and cans, why would the marketing geniuses at Coke make it harder to tell the difference between sugar free and regular? It’s one thing to be able to find the slim black strip saying ‘Sugar Free’ in a supermarket, but this is going to be a nightmare at places where speed of service is important, like your cafe example.
My wife has been drinking Coke Zero, but has recently tried Coke No-Sugar. She says it’s different, but acceptable, and much better than Diet Coke.
The recipes just generally say equal parts cream soda and Coke, but that doesn’t taste the way I remember it. I was just hoping they had an official one, so I could compare and get my recipe right. (Chances are it wouldn’t be sold here in my little town. We don’t even get caffeine free Mountain Dew or Dr. Pepper).
I just bought a bottle from the servo because… I don’t know really. Perhaps I had too much money and wanted to spend as much as possible sampling this product? Can’t offhand think of a dearer place to buy it.
Anyway, it was difficult to identify in the fridge. I knew it was there because of the promo labels advertising it, but it blended in with the regular Coke, and the 600ml bottles had tilted forward in the display case, obscuring the black band.
Taste? Meh, it’s fine. Kind of sharp and metallicy. Coke-like. Coke Zeroesque. Not really a Diet Coke flavour profile, which is what I was worried about. I drink very little soda these days, so it’s not really going to impact me. If Coke Zero does vanish entirely, I might choose this product.
They were sure; before releasing New Coke they’d tested various formulations and in blind taste tests, people greatly preferred the one recipe above all else, diet or sugared, Coke or Pepsi. But in the non-blind comparisons…
I remember about the time the dust was settling, a Coca Cola representative was asked if A) They hadn’t done taste tests ahead of time or B) It was all to drum interest in their product. “We’re not that dumb, and we’re not smart,” was his blunt reply.
A minor typo: I think it was “We’re not that dumb, and we’re not that smart”.
Yup. Sorry, unknown Coke spokeman.
It was the CEO, Robert Goizeuta, who made that comment.
There’s also an argument that Pepsi only won taste tests against Classic Coke due to them only being small sips, and that Classic Coke tasted better for continued drinking. This is offered as the reason that Coke continued winning even when Pepsi won taste tests.
Given that, the New Coke tests may have also only been sipping tests, and Classic Coke tasted better for continued drinking.
According to the Snopes article it was Coke president and COO Donald Keough who said it.
Goizeuta. Snopes is wrong on this. Here is the primary citation. He said it on April 10th, 1995.