Traditional ginger beers were simple. Ginger root and sugar were added to water and boiled for thirty minutes...
Before I started Roots, a wise business woman told me...
In July, we hit our sales target again...
Since lockdown began, everyone’s been asking for more flavours and mixed cases...
We have free beetroot, rose and pink grapefruit soda, and we want to give it to everyone in Edinburgh (while stocks last)...
We have reopened our online store today. To begin with, Superposition–our hop, clove and grapefruit soda...
Last week, we announced that our plan for the year had to change, after bars, cafes, delis...
Lots of small businesses have had to change their plan recently, and we are having to do the same...
We have updated our website and added an online store. After recent improvements to our can labels...
During the summer, we busily improved our production process. But we made time to polish up our labels too...
Last year, we relaunched our soda in cans, but the first batch was dumped after it started to oxidise...
I have not written to this blog for some time. And the only way to really explain my absence, is to tell our story...
Our newest soda, Superposition, is officially available to buy today! We launched Superposition on tap at The Hanging Bat a few weeks ago...
A Roots Soda Co. stockist since the early days, Cranachan and Crowdie is a treasure trove of artisanal and craft Scottish products...
Roots Soda Co. has had a very good start to 2016. We’ve launched our new low-sugar soda range, releasing three new flavours in four months...
Last week we launched our newest soda; Superposition. Like our other recent flavours, it has a lot less sugar than most mass produced and premium sodas...
Our stockists are incredibly important to us. Over the years so many people have taken a chance on Roots Soda Co...
We’ve been talking a lot lately about creating drinks with as little sugar as possible. In February we released our first ever low-sugar soda...
I started Roots Soda Company in April 2012 because I wanted to make a healthier soda...
Roots Soda Co’s journey began back in April 2012, and it began by hitting the history books...
Soda might be more of an American thing, but Britain also has its fair share of fizzy drinks...
Over the last month we've been pretty quiet at Roots Soda Company. It has definitely been one of our most intense periods...
Whilst our handmade, all natural soda has been making its way to rebel outposts across the UK, Edinburgh remains a craft soda stronghold...
I’ve been at the history books again, (namely Sundae Best: A History of Soda Fountains by Anne Cooper Funderburg and Darcy O’Neil’s Fix the Pumps), this time looking at soda fountains...
Now that we’re producing our soda on a bigger scale, with better equipment, we’re benefiting from greater efficiencies, and our price has come down...
Obviously we love a soda, but what we now see as a sweet drink for kids, has a pretty unsavoury past. It started life as a health supplement, trying to recreate the mysteriously-healing affects of naturally-carbonated water from volcanic springs...
We’ve had a nice couple of months at Roots. Right now we’re making more soda which has become a joy. We’re grateful to stockists old and new...
In a week’s time it will be exactly three years since the Roots story began...
It appears every time I open up my laptop, log on to Facebook, youtube, or twitter, a loud, pervasive, positive noise, descends over everything...
In a fashion fast becoming typical, once again it has been an age since the last instalment in the continuing Roots Soda Co. saga...
Since September last year there has been a distinct lack of communication from Roots HQ...
Last week we reached a major milestone at Roots. We sent off our first whole pallet of soda to just one customer...
It’s been another busy month here at Roots, with the sodas reaching out to all points of the compass...
People have sometimes asked us whether using raw, hand-juiced fruit – instead of extracts and concentrates – makes the flavour profiles of our sodas differ from the batch to batch...
Last month our sodas found themselves in Cranachan & Crowdie, the Scottish food and drink shop nestled on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh...
We’ve had another exciting week at Roots and despite the super late nights and occasional juice-based disaster...
At Roots we want to be ourselves and give an honest account of our thoughts and the goings on at Roots through this blog...
Ok so things have been a little hushed at Roots Soda Co over the past week. Don’t confuse it for laziness...
The last few months for us was not just about creating a production space for Roots Soda, but about making a home for Roots Soda Co. too...
Hello. Sorry for the tardiness in updating this here blog; many other things have been happening chez Roots which have been occupying both our minds and our bodies...
So here we are; the Roots Soda Co. blog. Your one-stop shop for exciting murmurings from Roots HQ, complete with photos, rubbish metaphors, occasionally successful attempts at cutting-edge humour, and of course the serious business of updates from your new favourite soda barons...
