wasteland Craft Soda

wasteland Craft Soda

wasteland Craft Soda

wasteland craft sodas are a medium to communicate beyond bars into topics like the food system and environment. Showing waste is all about perception and to rethink what is waste while drinking responsibly for the environment.

wasteland craft sodas are created by mixologists and built the way cocktails are made. Using sustainably sourced ingredients from local growers, producers. Plus surplus ingredients we have accumulated from a community of restaurants, cafes, and many of our friends. They were designed with complexity to be enjoyed as non-alcoholic beverages on their own but with versatility to be mixed with other liquids and spirits as well.

Each bottle is packed with stories, helping fight food waste and ignite creativity toward sustainability. Closing and loop and create an impactful circular economy, one bottle at a time.

We always wanted to make soda from our childhood that is safe, lessen environmental impact, and to educate/communicate about food and environment with anyone who buys it. The time we started to test the prototypes was also the same time Bangkok went into prohibition. It seemed like a great time to continue to launch this beverage product that is what the only product bar can sell, non-alcoholic beverages.

Each bottle packed its own messages on environment and creativity but also got its own main topic within the environment, culture, locality, community, and creativity.

We started with lemonade using squeezed lime from Bo.lan kitchen which usually the chefs only use the juice and would process the remains of the lime into EM water or into compost. However, we know how to extract other things out of lime skin and lime pulp. It then mix with mineral clay which is what eldery in the south consume as vitamins.

Resulting in the first wasteland Craft Soda ‘Mineral Lemonade’ that highlights ‘culture’. The next one was ‘Rose Lemonade’ which has a similar structure to the first one but replacing mineral clay with damask rose from Chiang Mai instead. The rose comes from an organic farm/homestay we have visited. This second soda emphasizes the environment because without a good environment, no one will be able to grow beautiful roses that are full of life and aroma.

The third soda is ‘Cacao Cola’ which was one of our very first friends who gets what we are doing and shows us their sourcing and also all kinds of cacao husk they have been collecting but still figuring out what to do with. We took them to mix with our spice blends and our own interpretation of cola into a chocolatey version.

The fourth soda is ‘Kokoa Root Beer’ which we were contacted by Kad Kokoa, a well known chocolate spot that supports local cocoa growers and has collaborated with many brands. The flavor profile of ingredients in this root beer in our interpretation fits with the concept of community perfectly. Kad Kokoa supports a community of growers. Coconut molasses from Plean Yod Tarn is a community-based social enterprise that never stops teaching people about regenerative agriculture and coming up with new products. And vanilla from Granmonte which is a renowned Thai wine estate that continues to push boundaries of growing things that usually come from abroad.

The fifth and latest soda we launched recently was ‘Chaff Cola’ that is all about creativity. Kohi Roastery and Coffee Bar reached out to us. We had worked with coffee chaff before but theirs are so distinctive that we knew we could make something out of it. We are the first in Thailand to use coffee chaff and create a soda with it.

There are other special sodas we have done to communicate on topics like forest fire, community surplus. As we believe there are potentials in every ingredient and we should try to make the most out of it to be grateful to the resources and energy that were put in to grow or make. Before removing it completely from going to waste by closing the loop or using it as much as we can before composting it. We see that soda is an accessible product and there are still a lot of ingredients and surplus out there for us to talk about via this bottle of bubbles and flavor memories.

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