“Well, this is overwhelming. I never knew there were so many flavours of soda.”
From cucumber to rose petal, coffee to botanically brewed cola, John Nese’s Soda Pop Stop has almost every kind of carbonated soft drink you could imagine. While craft fundis obsess over hard tack, copper pot distilled craft spirits and the like, some seek enjoyment in the more innocent and the sweeter aspects of life. Sure, beer can have delicious tactile sediment - but can that sediment be little bits of vanilla or fruit? In soda, it can be.
Beer people will appreciate this mini-documentary about Nese and his soda shop, a testament to the giddying potential of humble carbonated water (and, incidentally, the inimitable glass bottle, the premier means for storing any beverage.) It, like craft beer, is about small businesses eking a living out from under the shadow of multinational corporations, the exploration of an accessible and affordable liquid medium and the pursuit of artisanal perfection and individual choice. Now I can’t wait to start exploring craft sodas in addition to my alcoholic pursuits: the enthusiasm, love and unmitigated joy present here is deliciously infectious.
Essential and fascinating viewing.
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