A Nice Cuppa

Oh boy, and they call it artisanal soda!  That is just how elegant Boylan’s clear, complex, uncluttered natural  flavors ring. Redolent with sassy fruits and fragrant spices.  Some wildly proclaim it to be “The Best Soda on Earth”

Boylan’s sodas of bygone days, are so good they could be show cased gilded frames. Maybe American poets and artists from Ellington to Mark Twain who have sipped the triple filtered “pin point carbonated” luxury of Boylan’s seltzers, sing to that special tingling zingling, extra seltzery feeling. Peppering their prose, inspired by Boylan’s unflinching integrity and devotion to that perfect bubble! Are the painters strokes more livelier in L’air Du Temps style?  Hmm, these are questions for the soda professionals.

I have to give them credit, to meet the stringent requirements of the natural food industry, Boylan formulated its recipes with natural cane sugar versus syrupy sweeteners.  They also opt for bodacious essential flavors;  One has Native American inspired Birch and natural yucca, a recipe which was handed down from their founders apothecary of 100 years ago. Their diet sodas are bold enough in flavor not to leave an aftertaste of Splenda. 

I guess there is an arty feel to these groovy beverages.
I would like to elect Boylan’s Natural Lemongrass and ecclectic citrus imbued Seltzer (with tiny feathery light effervescence) into the seltzer hall of fame!  I do declare… it is crisp, clean, calorie free and delightful! If doing things this right, means being labeled artisanal, I will pick up the first paint brush and paint a bouquet with seltzer myself.  Seriously, these sodas are delicious.  So good that my old job even gave me an incentive to stay by promising to always stock Boylan’s seltzer!  It worked for a while. Every serious discussion was begun with a few of us popping open an ice cold vessel which quietly (a few musical bubbles) encouraged us with its crisp, uncompromising authenticity. A gourmet moment. I did leave that job for the Chelsea Market where it rains gourmet sodas. I’m just one thirsty girl! Might be that I am spoiled from my dad installing our very own vending machine of ice cold sodas in our play room as kids. If I had a nickle for every soda! Those were real bottles too, but we used slugs.