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Pip Organic Fizz

Children, Drinks and Mixers, Family Life, Food & Drink, Lunchbox Fillers, Summer

Disclaimer – We have received this item for free or on a loan basis for the purpose of this review/feature but all words and opinions are our own.

Pip Organic are a London based, organic drink and snack company who have just brought out the Pip Organic Fizz range of drinks for children. Well, not only children as adults will love these drinks to! We were sent some of each of the two flavours; Apple Fizz and Apple Cherry Fizz.

What makes the Pip Organic Fizz drinks different?  Pip Organic pride themselves on making drinks and snacks that have minimal ingredients, and produce food which they themselves would give to their own children. Founders Patrick and Karen discovered organic juice bars whilst travelling together, not long after they met, and began juicing in Borough Market, London as they built their business. Nowadays, they are on a mission to make better food and drink accessible to everyone.

The 250ml cans come in packs of 4 and we put them straight in the fridge when they arrived so that we could enjoy them on those very hot heatwave days!  The Apple Fizz is apple juice but carbonated to give the fizzy texture of a soft drink. It doesn’t have any added sugar is it has a slight sourness about it that’s akin to a home grown apple that comes straight off the tree.  It’s also organic, so there’s the potential for the Apple Fizz drinks to be slightly different in taste from one can to another over time.  It’s remarkably refreshing, and doesn’t leave a coating on your teeth (there’s no synthetic sweeteners either) and counts towards your 5-a-day. 

The Apple Cherry Fizz is similarly refreshing and is slightly sweeter because of the addition of cherry juice. It’s also organic and counts as one in your 5-a-day quota.  These drinks are aimed at children, but adults can enjoy them just as much, and over the summer they can be used in cocktails or as mixers as well, so the whole family can enjoy them and makes them easy to add to the shopping cart. Pip Organic Fizz is available in Marks and Spencer and now Waitrose too!

Pip Organic Apple Cherry Fizz 250ml

Grapefruit & Elderberry Bitter from The Bitter Club

alcoholic drinks, Birthday Gifts, Drinks and Mixers, Food & Drink, Gifts for Her, Gifts for Him, Summer

Disclaimer – We received this item free for the purpose of this review/feature but all words and opinions are our own.

What is a bitter?

Bitters are flavourings added to spirits to make certain cocktails.  Most of the cocktails are the famous ones like a Screwdriver, Cosmopolitan or a Bitter Martini, which is made from the Grapefruit & Elderberry Bitter which was sent to us by The Bitter Club.

Made with love in small batches and with natural ingredients that have no added sugars or flavourings, each of the bitters (they also create Hibiscus & Rose Bitter and Cinnamon & Orange Bitter) has a distinct taste which adds to spirits to create the perfect cocktail.  Ro Murray, the founder, explains that the bitters were created by accident, after living in the US and sampling the finest bourbons and wanting to bring the cocktail lifestyle home to London.  Ro took a course in distilling and found a fascination with the process which led to creating the Cinnamon & Orange Bitter in order to make a favourite cocktail – the Old Fashioned.  From there more distilling flowed and the other flavours developed, including the Grapefruit & Elderberry Bitter.

If you’re looking for an addition to your drinks cupboard and don’t want to have to make all the mixers and flavours yourself, The Bitter Club has the perfect selection for you. Each 100ml bottle of flavours contains a pipette for ease of making so your cocktail making suddenly got easier. The Grapefruit & Elderberry tastes delicately fresh with the grapefruit bitterness coming through first, then the elderberry brightness.  There are cocktail recipes available on the website for The Bitter Club: https://www.thebitterclub.co.uk/grapefruit-elderberry-cocktail-recipes or you can add the bitters to a gin and tonic to try them if you’re not a cocktail person. You can always invent your own cocktail from the bitters too!

Available from £15 at: https://www.thebitterclub.co.uk/products/grapefruit-and-elderberry-bitters