Joia All Natural Soda

I loved the cucumber soda WITH vodka! Yeah! What a great idea! Thank you for sharing your wonderful products with us at last nights Unilocal event. I have enjoyed other flavors I’ve picked up at Cost Plus World Market but. I can’t wait to buy more and start this Spring season with a little cucumber cocktail!
Cheers!

My taste buds will love anything with sugar in it, any sugar drink is pretty much the same to me. But I actually really love Joia, as something distinctly superior. Personally I’m too conscious of the price and empty calories to really buy this stuff, but for mixing with alcohol or as an alcohol alternative at a social event, it’s the tops.
Mix a bottle of the Ginger, Apricot & All Spice, with a shot of spiced rum, and you can’t taste the alcohol flavor at all.

These guys have gone national, now. You can find their stuff in Sprouts and who knows where else – and I can say I’m eternally grateful for it.
I haven’t had better soda with more unique flavors than this stuff. You really can’t go wrong with any of their offerings.
From Minnesota to California, thanks technology – and thanks Joia!

My soda addiction continues and I keep looking for new cool vendros. Joia out of Minnesota has a great line of natural and tasty beverages. The pineapple, coconut, nutmeg tastes straight up like piña colada sans booze. Im guessing if you mix a little rum… you know where this is going…

The extent of my soda consumption usually starts and stops with Diet Coke. I have been trying to quit the stuff! Joia is the exception to the rule for me. This treat is sold at my local coffee shop and I love picking up a bottle. The flavors are creative and the design on the bottle is eye catching. This is an exciting local treat.

I’m not typically a soda person, but I drink Joia Soda a lot. Admittedly, it’s mostly with alcohol. I’m a pretty lazy at-​home bartender most of the time, so I like that the Joias mix so well with booze. It’s like a perfectly balanced bottled cocktail mix.
The flavors were developed with the help of local mixologist Dan Oskey (from The Strip Club). My favorite is the grapefruit, chamomile and cardamom (with or without vodka), but I honestly like them all. I usually buy the stuff at The Wedge, but it’s also sold in tons of cafes, restaurants and grocery stores all over Minnesota. I see it more and more often lately and it always makes me happy that those businesses are supporting the local guys.

Mmm, RC Cola.
To this day, I love an ice cold RC Cola. In fact, when it comes to soda I have always been a cola guy. You can have your Mountain Dew, Sprite and Fanta. I will have an RC, Coca-​Cola, and yes even a Pepsi.
However, since I gave up carbonation I have pretty much stopped drinking soda, only occasionally making exceptions.
Well, I am so glad I recently made an exception.
Sara and I decided to support a local business by having brunch at The Strip Club in Saint Paul. We had heard great things about it, but for some reason had never made it in. I had intended to try the food and write a post reviewing the Strip Club for sometime this week, but I was sidetracked by a beverage.
Don’t get me wrong the food was excellent (best Devilled egg I have ever had) and the staff was über friendly, so I will be returning and reviewing the Strip Club after I have dinner their, but todays post will be about another local business that I encountered through my visit: Joia Soda.
The Strip Club’s menu included Joia Sodas, a brand I had not heard of. I decided to have one, but had a hard time choosing which of the mouth watering flavors I would try. There were 4 flavors available:
Grapefruit, Chamomile, and Cardomom
Lime, Hibiscus, and Clove
Blackberry, Pomagranite, and Ginger
Pineapple, Coconut, and Nutmeg
I finally landed on the Lime, Hibiscus and Clove and could not have been happier. The Lime-​Hibiscus soda was very refreshing and our waiter, Bentley, was kind enough to bring us a sample of the Pineapple-​Coconut — which was the most interesting and distinct soda I have ever tasted. Your palete initially thinks it is getting pineapple juice, then the flavor slowly morphs into coconut. Super yummy!
Bentley raved about the sodas and gave us a little background information on the product. He told us that the financier behind the product approached the bartender at The Strip Club to create the flavors for Joia Soda. Bentley said that he came up with 8 all natural flavors and that management chose the four they sell to market.
The Minneapolis– based brand seems to be doing very well. Their website shows several locations in the cities where you can buy Joia like Lund’s, Byerly’s, and of course The Strip Club.
I am looking forward to trying the other two flavors.
Another aspect of Joia Soda that I really enjoy is its use as a mixer. Several alcoholic drinks at The Strip Club use Joia Soda, and Joia’s website has lists of drink recipies for each flavor of soda. They sound delicious!
Next time you are at the grocery store keep an eye out for Joia Soda, and if you are looking for a great brunch hit The Strip Club –the Farmer’s Scramble was wicked good.

Joia Soda is my new favorite little treat! The flavors are really original. I have now tried all the flavors, and if I had to pick a favorite it would be the Blackberry, Pomegranate and Ginger. But I also really love the Lime, Hibiscus and Clove. It’s really good with Gin. Overall, their flavors are not as sweet as normal soda, which is really nice.
You can get it at the Co-​op, Midtown, Lunds, all over the place.
Also, Minneapolis Company!
Also, Cute Branding!