The ’90s influence can be seen just about everywhere these days, what with flannel, chokers, Doc Martens and crop tops sported on runways and streets — and pretty soon, maybe even at your next party.

Like its equally transparent younger sibling Crystal Pepsi, the citrus-flavored malt liquor beverage known as Zima caused a stir in the mid-‘90s when it first hit shelves, and then quickly faded into ...