Road trip to Montreal with maple bacon soda - no Flea this week

We're taking our first mini vacation in a long time and driving up to Montreal for the music festival Mutek, which is coincidentally the same weekend as their Beer Festival!  We have reservations for Au Pied de Cochon, and are very excited to take a break for 4 days.

And equally important is the cargo we'll be taking up with us!  One liter of our experimental maple bacon soda.  We tried this a few month ago and decided it'd be fun (or foolish) to take a bottle up with us to try impress Au Pied de Cochon.  It's currently carbonating in our fridge.  (Just to recap, in order to extract bacon water you have to cook the bacon in water, then take this fatty bacon-water and add it to a gelatin mixture, freeze it in an ice cube tray, then as the bacon-gelatin mixture melts, the fat is left behind leaving a clear fat-free bacon liquid which you can then add maple syrup to)

This does mean that we won't be at the Flea this weekend, but our bottles will still be available at Blue Hill and Palo Santo.

A 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!!

I've been toying around with the idea of mix CD's as incentives. Each one will have a different flavor theme:

Maple Bacon - Smoky, Sweet, Sexy Soul.
A mix of soulful, funky, meaty cuts from the 60's til now. Bonus- guaranteed to include at least one Canadian.

Root Beer - Old-Timey American Goodness.
A collection of gospel tunes, sacred harp singing and plenty of good old banjo-pickin', fiddlin' bluegrass and blues.

Ginger Lemon - Spicy and Tart Summer Jams.
From sun-drenched indie-rock to Nuggets-era garage rock to cumbia, dancehall and Afrobeat, this mix will be the ultimate BBQ companion 2010!

Glögg - Norse Metal Madness!
If this one doesn't have you pretending your couch is a long boat and getting ready to row off into battle for Odin then you must be dead... or just not cut out to be a metalhead. Today is a fine day to die! See you in Valhalla...

Also, we don't have any German soda flavors (yet... please send ideas!) but we do have a killer Krautrock mix so you can choose that as well. It's a collection of rare 70's cuts from the best of the Krautrock B-team. No Faust, Can, Neu, Kraftwerk, Amon Düül, Cluster or Tangerine Dream here, just killer Teutonic Psychedelic Rock from some great lesser-known bands.

If you have any other music flavor pairing ideas, feel free to contact us. We'd love to hear from you.