Trend: Homemade Sodas

Housemade non-alcoholic soda drinks, reminiscent of the corner soda shop or the age of Prohibition, are making a comeback. Here are three created by Jonathan Pogash, Director of Cocktail Development for Hospitality Holdings, for The Empire Room in New York with its 1930’s decor. “Of course, if the customer desires,” says Pogash, “alcohol can be added, but they’re just as delicious sans booze.”

Blackberry

4 blackberries (or 1 oz puree in off season)
1/2 oz fresh lemon
1 oz honey syrup
Ginger ale

Muddle blackberries in lemon and honey syrup. Add ice and shake well. Pour half of ginger ale over ice into pilsner glass. Then strain what is in shaker. Top with extra ginger ale and stir briefly. Garnish with blackberry and lemon wheel on skewer.

Pineapple Mint

Handful mint leaves
2 oz pineapple juice
3/4 oz fresh lime
1 oz demerara syrup
Club soda

Smack the mint and add to mixing glass with other ingredients except for soda. Shake well with ice. Add half the club soda over ice into pilsner glass then strain out shaker. Top with extra soda and stir briefly. Garnish with several mint sprigs inside glass.

Pomegranate Almond

1 oz POM pomegranate juice (must be POM)
1 oz Monin almond syrup
Club soda

Build into an ice filled pilsner glass and stir briefly. Garnish with lime wedge.

Edited by Patricia D. Sherman

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