This non-traditional tonic combines the floral rose notes synonymous with it's home city and the traditional flavor that comes from pure Quinine and Cinchona bark. One of the few tonic concentrates that utilizes true Quinine in the recipe.
Portland's own House Spirits (now Westward Whiskey) approached us to create a tonic that paired with their award-winning Aviation gin. This authentically-brewed whole-ingredient tonic, made with genuine cinchona bark, features a delicate floral layer that supports but does not compete with Aviation's spice roster. Cinchona, the bittering bark from which tonics get their quinine, delivers a complex, gently astringent tonic “bite.” This makes the driest gin and tonic you'll find — simply stir it with a bit of sparkling water prior to building your drink.
A premium small-batch syrup brewed by hand in Oregon with seasonally-selected whole ingredients and natural sweeteners. Our syrups feature 40% less sugar than a typical mixer, yet are carefully formulated to have stronger flavor per serving. Each 12 oz. bottle makes 12-24 cocktails, or nearly one gallon of finished, full-strength soda.
- Shelf stable for 24 months. Refrigerate after opening. Will keep refrigerated for 6 months
- INGREDIENTS: water, cane sugar, cinchona bark, rosa canina, citric acid, quinine anhydrous.
- NUTRITION FACTS: Serv. Size: 1 oz (30 mL, 2 TBSP), Servings: 12 (per 12-ounce bottle), Amount Per Serving: Calories 35, Total Fat 0g (0% DV), Sodium 0mg (0% DV), Total Carb. 10g (3% DV), Sugars 10g, Protein 0g. Percent Daily Values (DV) are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Recipes & Uses
- Use to flavor cocktails as you would a simple syrup, or flavoring syrup such as grenadine. Pairs with vodka or gin.
- For sodas, our syrups are typically mixed in a ratio of 1:6 or 1:7 with chilled, sparkling water. This creates a traditional-strength soda in terms of flavor and sweetness.
Corporate America has skewed, overused and killed so many terms over the past two decades that it has become hard to describe an authentic process without sounding like every other food or beverage company. Words like "small-batch," "natural," "artisanal," “authentic,” “natural,” or "craft" have long-since been co-opted by mammoth corporations that churn out thousands of units a day.
The Brewers Association denoted the ceiling for calling a beer"craft" as making less than six million barrels per year. So, technically, you can be a "craft" brewery if you make less than 1,984,000,000 12oz beers a year. That's a hair less than 5 beers per every American!
So instead of using catch-words to describe what we do, we at Portland Syrups let our process speak for itself. It's important for us to be authentic, even if "authentic" isn't what it used to be.
We brew, bottle, label, box and ship all in and from our facility in SE Portland, Oregon. Raw ingredients come in and finished goods go out.
Our brewing process begins with sifting, sorting and weighing whole herbs, spices, vegetables and fruits. We source these ingredients as close to home as possible and whenever available we buy locally. The ingredients are processed (in our case this simply means that they are chopped, crushed, juiced or toasted), weighed and placed in large brewing bags. Once weighed out, we add filtered water and then steep like a giant tea for a minimum of one hour (often much longer).
When we say "giant" we mean anywhere between 10 to 100 gallons. I guess you could say our giant is someone else's micro. But we feel we’ve come a long way from the quart-sized pots in our kitchen in 2012.
Once the ingredients have steeped, they are removed and the remaining brew is sweetened with pure cane sugar. We compost the ingredients that are removed and the sweetened "tea" is brought up to a specific temperature and then hot-filled into our bottles one at a time. After a few hours the bottles are cool enough to label, add the shrink bands, and apply the lot code and expiration date to ensure everyone knows how long they have to enjoy our syrups.
It's a very involved process and our hands are moving each bottle along the way.
Oh yeah! One last thing. Using one of our bottles alongside your home soda machine saves up to 24 plastic bottles from finding their way into landfills. We choose glass packaging and concentrates over ready-to-drink single serve packages in order to reduce the overall footprint of the beverage industry. When possible, we highly encourage reusing our bottles and always encourage recycling. We'd like to keep the oceans for fish and keep the plastics out. Every piece and every day counts.
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