Beer belongs to the small group of fizzy beverages I consider as delicious and refreshing as our sodas. But in the middle of a long New York summer, I admit that I occasionally find myself wishing that my beer were a little bit more like a soda. Or that my soda was a little bit more like a beer. Enter the shandy...
Read MoreOur one year anniversary! Spring season starts!
It may not feel like spring yet, but we'll be outdoors at the Brooklyn Flea both Saturday and Sundays this spring...
Read MoreComing soon to Beer Table - dried lemon, juniper & hops soda!
This week Antonio has been hard at work finalizing the recipe for a more experimental bitter soda - a dried lemon, juniper & hops soda - which we think will go great with the range of beer that Beer Table has...
Read MoreA successful party! Brooklyn Soda Works at Beer Table!
It was great to see a number of you at our party with SCRATCHbread last week - and congratulations to SCRATCHbread for making their goal on Kickstarter.
Read MoreBrooklyn Soda Works & SCRATCHbread invite you to a holiday party & fundraiser!
You're invited! To celebrate the end of our successful first season and our upcoming partnership with SCRATCHbread, we're co-hosting a fizzy fondue extravaganza & fundraiser...
Read MoreHong Kong carbonated juices (guavas, rose apples and starfruit!)
I'm posting from Hong Kong this week (Tony will still be doing the Flea this coming Saturday with West Indies inspired flavours). I grew up eating a variety of fruit that I often still don't know the English names for, and often miss the tropical fruits. In addition, Hong Kong has plentiful juice stands and delicious fruit based drinks that help the population of 7 million beat the long summer heat...
Read MoreRanked #1! thanks Adam Platt. And we will be at the Flea this Saturday
It's been an exciting week - we found out that the chief restaurant critic for New York magazine ranked us #1 in his taste test of eight local New York sodas...
Read MoreFlavors for Saturday! Our tote bag! and nice nod from Sara Jenkins of Porchetta
We're doing a repeat of the basic flavors of last week, except we're switching out the Empire apples for Jonagold apples, and upped the ginger level in the apple and ginger...
Read MoreFlavors for Saturday! And flip-top bottles to take home soda!
It's amazing how different thyme from different places can look. The thyme on the above left is from the Union Square Farmer's market, and the one on the right is from a farmers market in NJ. It seems like the one on the left is younger and lighter tasting (the leaves are bigger), while the bunch on the right has smaller denser leaves.
Read MoreDebuting at the Flea- our 3 flavors
Insanely busy past couple of days! Was at the Palo Santo kitchen preparing the sodas till 4am last night, and just finished carbonating them. And I just finished making my blackboard sign in the shape of a bottle...
Read MoreCream Soda attempt!
Things have started to get busy here at the headquarters of Brooklyn Soda Works (meaning the kitchen of the apartment). We're gearing up for our debut at the Brooklyn Flea in 9 days, trying to work out last minute technical glitches and ordering the last of our supplies, as well as trying to determine our starting lineup for flavors...
Read MoreOur first scale up!
Our first scale up and soda party was a success! It featured a lemon-ginger ale; cucumber, lime & sea salt, and a root beer. No terrible technical issues, no meltdowns and no sick guests...
Read MoreRoot beer time!
The main ingredient in root beer was traditionally sassafras root, but the essential oil of sassfras was found to carcinogenic in mice in the 60's...
Read MoreLemon, thyme & pink peppercorn soda
Had an hour free before the commute into Newark, so decided I'd give my sister's suggestion of lemon & thyme soda a try...
Read MoreBrainstorming ideas
The snowy days have been an excuse for us to do some brainstorming, both for flavours and for figuring out our technical set-up...
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