You remember the story we brought you on Up and coming Washington DC home brewer Nathan Zeender and his work with Right & Proper Brewing? Now Nathan Zeender has started a Kickstarter campaign to open an organic soda company to be named Wildcraft Soda. The Kickstarter campaign is here. Some details on the soda venture…
We work with select purveyors and foragers to provide wildcrafted ingredients to brew our sodas. Whole botanicals, herbs, and spices are decocted in a kettle for a prescribed period of time to extract flavor, aroma, and nutrients. The sodas are lightly sweetened with pure honey for balance, then are immediately chilled, kegged, and carbonated. By always being mindful and keeping our unfiltered sodas refrigerated, we ensure their freshness to our drinkers.
But we aren't all stodgy historic facts; our sodas are soulful and fun beverages that have the added benefit of being good for you. We encourage the curious to get creative and blend our sodas with their favorite spirits.
The sodas will be draft-only and available at a limited number of our favorite bars and restaurants around the District. In the spring we plan on having a draft stand at a few farmers’ markets around town. We are launching with two flavors and will soon expand with seasonal and other inspired offerings.
Groot Beer is a true root beer. Whole wildcrafted botanicals including sarsparilla root, licorice root, burdock root, ginger root, and chicory root are decocted to extract flavor and healthful compounds to produce an aromatic, earthy, and herbal botanical soda lightly sweetened with pure buckwheat honey. Beverages made from the anatomy of medicinal trees and plants have a long tradition with the native peoples of the Americas and Northern Europe for their nutritive and restorative properties. All of the roots in this recipe have been used for centuries as natural liver and circulatory tonics.
Ebulon is a fruity, tangy, and spicy botanical soda with the complementary flavors of elderberry, hibiscus, rosehip, pink peppercorn, ginger root, and pure wildflower honey. The name is a nod to an historic elderberry cordial known to promote "ebullience.” The recipe is naturally rich with Vitamin C and antioxidants and borrows inspiration from botanical winemaking, the Caribbean flavor palette, and Colonial era drinking vinegars called shrubs.
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