Portland / Oregon's Beverages
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HOTLIPS Soda hotlipssoda.com
Soda for people who don’t like soda. Not too sweet, a nicer taste, better for health and positive for nature. (Creating a market for local berries helps to sustain these crops which are increasingly under pressure.) The un-Coke?
HLS says: “We worship the Pacific Northwest and the incredible fruit that grows here. We offer it to you in a bottle. It’s called HOTLIPS Soda. We brew a premier soda with superior local fruit, water, cane sugar and organic lemon juice. It’s that simple. Each sip tells a story of the fruit, the place, the dedicated growers, and our traditional brewing process. There’s maximum taste. Shifts in flavor, surprising notes, new harmonies in every sip.
HOTLIPS Soda is real fruit soda pop. Ripe, fresh locally grown fruit is cooked in open kettles to bring out the flavors, seeds are filtered out (but not fruit pulp), water, pure cane sugar and organic lemon juice are added, it is carbonated and put into bottles. It’s that simple. No small percentages of real fruit. No shortcuts, supplements, artificial flavors, concentrates or trickery. And no corn syrup.”
Kombucha Wonder Drink wonderdrink.com/
KWD says: “Kombucha Wonder Drink is a Sparkling Himalayan Tonic with inspired natural flavors infused with tea, creating an entirely new beverage category. This unique, refreshing, somewhat mysterious – even magical beverage has its own compelling mythology.
For centuries, the wise ones descended each year from their aeries high in the Himalayas to harvest spring tea that grew in the valley below. The tea went back up, high in the mountains where it was blended according to an ancient formula, creating “kombucha” – a delicious, effervescent wonder drink that has for thousands of years conferred its wonderful benefits on all who drink it: good health, great longevity, inner serenity and incisive mental clarity.
Kombucha Wonder Drink now comes in five wonderful certified organic flavors: Himalayan Blend, Orient Blend, Asian Pear Ginger, Jasmine Niagara Grape and Rooibos Red Peach.”
Roots Organic Brewing rootsorganicbrewing.com/
Oregon’s first all-organic brewpub – see the listing in our restaurant guide.

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