An artist and a chemist making soda and carbonated juices from scratch, using fresh and seasonal ingredients. Fresh draft soda - available at the Brooklyn Flea on the weekends & select bars & restaurants

Friday, May 28, 2010

Strawberry, hops & pink peppercorn! And an article on CHOW.com

It's strawberry season in south Jersey!  The crop this year seems to be quite big - I picked up 2 flats of strawberries from Cherry Lane farm (they have a stand at Union Square farmer's market).

And Tony has wanted to try out a hops soda for months now, so here we go. We picked up fresh local hops from Brooklyn Kitchn (Chinook hops) and steeped them with ground up pink peppercorn to extract the floral notes without too much of the bitter flavors. We'll be debuting this at the Flea this Saturday, so come by and check it out.


And in other news, thanks to Roxanne the associate editor at CHOW.com for including us in her article on how food entrepreneurs are using platforms like kickstarter.com to start businesses. We've mentioned this a several times before, but we really couldn't have done this without the help of people who pledged to us on Kickstarter.  It's a great platform and we encourage anyone with an idea to use it.
The story can be read here: http://www.chow.com/stories/12176?tag=main_body;feature_story

2 comments:

  1. So is it a Strawberry/Hops/Peppercorn soda, or are the strawberries one soda flavor, then the hops/peppercorn another?

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  2. it's strawberries, with Chinook hops and pink peppercorn. all one flavor~!

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