Batching Cocktails: How to Batch Drinks Easily for Parties
Here are my secrets for pre-batching drinks for parties. As a former cocktail caterer who has served drinks on mountain tops, in the woods, in horse corrals, backstage at music festivals, and to thousands of thirsty wedding guests, I have some tips for making batched cocktails for events.
Huckleberry Spruce Tip: the story behind the syrup
It’s a deeply personal syrup flavor for us: Huckleberry Spruce Tip syrup is our Pacific Northwest in a bottle. Here is the story behind this syrup, from forest to bottle.
Year Four at the Simple Goodness Soda Shop: reflections on growing our family- owned restaurant
Looking back at 3 years at the Soda Shop in Wilkeson, renovating our historic building into a family friendly bar, and what's ahead for us this year
2023 Good Food Foundation Finalists: Blueberry Lavender
Blueberry Lavender is a finalist in the Drinks & Elixirs category. This is our third time as a finalist! Marionberry Mint and Rhubarb Vanilla syrups have each also qualified as finalists in this rigorous specialty foods award program. Meeting the standards of the Good Food Foundation isn't easy, and we have worked very hard to craft a product that meets their standards and our own. As farmers growing sustainably, and as ingredient sourcers to rigorous ethical and health standards, we are making choices for our product that lead us to be a better company.
How to Host the Modern Cocktail Party- it's not what you think!
The dinner party may be dead, but our desire to indulge ourselves and our community in a good time isn't going anywhere. With the weather cooling down and giving us gorgeous evenings, we've got hosting outdoors on the mind. And what could be fresher as an evolution of these important get togethers than an outdoor cocktail party? Here is how we host one at the Simple Goodness Cocktail Farm.
Cocktail Farm Club Drink Kit | Garden-to-Glass Cocktail Club
Nothing signals celebration quite like a festive, garden-to-glass beverage- that's where our cocktail kits come in. The Cocktail Farm Club is a fresh take on a farm CSA, and a cocktail kit subscription like no other. What does it actually include? Read on!
1 Year later at the Simple Goodness Soda Shop: renovating our historic cafe
The Soda Shop is one year old today, October 8, 2021. It's been 365 days, a WHOLE lot of cocktails, and about 85 shift grilled sourdough panini sandwiches each since we opened the Simple Goodness Soda Shop in Wilkeson to the public for the first time. We opened 5 months after we had originally planned to, due to the 2020 Pandemic, after renovating the property ourselves and navigating all the paperwork with state and county licenses. Looking back...
