Eric from the Brooklyn Flea sent this little bit of press over last night - woo hoo! Thanks for mentioning us! And we're in such delectable company too (Porchetta has ridiculously delicious pork sandwiches; Good Fork is one of our favorite Brooklyn restaurants) .
Photos from the tasting party and lots of root beer floats!
It's Sunday Soda Tasting Day! We invited some friends over to help us taste our first soda scale up and to say thanks to everyone for the support we've received over the past few months, raising funds and putting up with our incessant soda and juicing talk...
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 MoreApple & ginger soda; and cucumber, lime & sea salt!
This past rainy Saturday we had a visitor to our kitchen - Liza from Dirtyhandsny.com (a project through the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, about everything DIY in New York)...
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 MoreA stamp?
Been playing around with ideas for a logo and a stamp (we want a stamp! we want to stamp things!...
Read MoreCascade hops soda, with pink peppercorn & orange zest
We love beer over here at Brooklyn Soda Works, especially good, crisp, hoppy american IPAs. Today we decided to try out a bitter soda made from hops...
Read MoreA big big thanks to all our supporters, and mix tape ideas please
We've been completely blown away by the amount of support we've received. We never in a million years thought that we would reach over 2/3 of our goal on Kickstarter.com within 48 hours. A big thanks to everyone who pledged...
Read MoreWe're now on Twitter! And images of bottled samples
Courtesy of our PR agency (or Caroline's sister, Sarah), we're now on Twitter!
Read MoreWe made our goal on Kickstarter!
A big thanks to everyone - we just surpassed our goal of $1500!!
We'll post a more detailed blog in a few days with some flavor ideas that we've been working on.
A busy snow day (part 1) - roots & herbs
Our UPS and Fed Ex delivery people have been making several stops at our apartment in the past 2 days. One of these packages contained several different organic herbs and roots...
Read MoreMaple syrup & bacon soda
We're in the middle of phase 1 of our maple bacon & syrup experiment...
Read MoreBrooklyn Soda Works is live on Kickstarter!
We've started a fundraising campaign on Kickstarter.com to raise funds for scaling up our sodas and selling them at the Brooklyn Flea...
Read MoreBrooklyn Flea this coming spring and summer!
Had a productive meeting with the Brooklyn Flea Market yesterday, and if all goes well, it looks like we'll be at Brooklyn Flea Market this coming spring and summer, hopefully every Saturday...
Read MoreBrooklyn Soda Works + Palo Santo?
We've been talking to our friend Jacques, the chef/owner of Palo Santo in Park Slope about using his kitchen to do the prep work and kegging of our sodas if we get a space at the brooklyn flea...
Read MoreBierkraft Fieldtrip!
Happy Year of the Tiger! Lemongrass and lime soda
While not a typical Valentine's Day nor Chinese New Year drink, February 14th seemed like an appropriate day to try out an idea I had for soda/ sparkling juice that would solve some of my frustrations about the strength of the lime juice overwhelming the taste of the mint in the mint-lime soda...
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...
Read Morespiced chocolate soda
Made a chocolate soda today. We decided to make it as if we were doing a normal spiced hot chocolate (just with water instead of milk) and then remove all the fat and solids using a gelatin clarifying technique leaving us with a nice spiced chocolate water that could be carbonated...
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