Soft drinks as a solution

Roze Bunker - soft drinks as a solution - takes on the sticky problems of the soft drinks industry. Foraged flavours from a wild landscape, as an aperitif or a natural replacement for the sticky villains. Produced with regenerative crops, fair business models, leftover processing and good fruit.

The fruitslagers of Roze Bunker think only in solutions. Because why ship needlessly diluted soft drinks when the best water simply comes out of the tap? That way one bottle of syrup gives you a whole crate of soft drinks! With every sip you solve a problem in the food industry. Roze Bunker isn’t just a soft drink, it’s also an aperitif as a solution. From soft drinks to cocktails and mocktails. So with every sip you contribute to biodiversity, short supply chains and circular production.

Products

Down with wasted fruit! The fruit revolution happens sip by sip: join the Citrus Movement and drink waste out of the world. A lemon is so much more than just juice, and the fruitslagers do everything they can to get the waste meter down to zero. The peels go to local limoncello makers. The leftover fruit and basil get experimented with to the max. Soap, sweets, jam, liqueur or compost for the Bunker garden; the possibilities are endless. All you have to do is take big gulps of this soft drink with tangy citrus and herbal, aromatic basil. Join the movement!

€ 9,00 / 340ML

Some berries don’t match the picture-perfect ideal, but ain’t no such thing! The fruitslagers think odd berries are absolutely brilliant. Gekke Bessen is an ode to the whole spectrum of the Dutch berry world. A syrup made from berries that normally get rejected because they look a little different. Those are exactly the ones we want! Tasty leftover streams rule the roost here. Blackcurrants, raspberries, white and red currants, aronia, blackberries... All the pressed pulp is fermented into vinegar for a few days, adding complexity. Wild bramble leaf and verbena from the Warmonderhof give a green, fresh finish. That’s how the fruitslagers brew a Dutch cassis: like biting into a berry!

€ 9,00 / 340ML

Monoculture makes us oh so sour! The fruitslagers go for biodiversity, which is why they sow local herbs on farmers’ land. That’s better for insects, meadow birds and healthy soil, but for us too. With this wild mix of herbs they make the first fully Dutch iced tea. Based on spruce, chamomile and angelica, these biodiverse farm botanicals give a green, lush flavour with a fresh edge. Happy bees, happy us!

€ 9,00 / 340ML

Limes often turn up uninvited from far away. And if that juicy, tropical little fruit is even a shade less green, it ends up on the steaming compost heap after its trip around the world. What a waste! The fruitslager welcomes these far travellers with open arms. To chase away the evil spirits of the industry, we ritually smoke the limes on a bed of sweet woodruff and sage. This gives Smoked Lime its peculiar Mezcal character, with vanilla notes from local ‘weeds’ and a balanced smokiness. Risen from the ashes, Smoked Lime holds its own among alcoholic drinks — though a welcome cocktail from the fruitslager can set off fireworks too!

€ 9,00 / 340ML

The fruitslagers dug into the bitter truth of the orange industry. While we get to enjoy these orange exotics all year round, people worldwide are getting sick from excessive pesticide use. And that while in many cultures the bitters in their peels are actually credited with medicinal properties. Accompanied by native bitter herbs and charred oak, the organic brothers of (blood) oranges and grapefruit form a multi-purpose solution: dilute 1:3 for a 0.0 Negroni, 1:5 for an unsprayed Spritz or 1:8 for a “waste saving” Soda.

€ 9,00 / 340ML

Kill Kola! The impossible mission has only just begun. Our arch-enemy is irreplaceable but oh-so-polluting. So we march into battle with flavour against the biggest scoundrel in the soft drinks industry. It promises to be one hell of a fight against unnecessary packaging and pointless transport miles. Because instead of creating waste, this Kola cleans up! With a spicy, dark flavour made from leftover streams, we’re making a bid for the highest throne in the kingdom of soft drinks. Join our revolution and pour with as much fizz as possible! Because only together can we chase the polluters out of the country. KILL KOLA!

€ 9,00 / 340ML

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Mission

The Fruitslagers of Roze Bunker are changing the soft drinks industry from the ground to the glass. We plant biodiversity, process leftover streams and shorten the food chain together. Soft drinks & aperitifs as a solution! Roze Bunker started as a culinary, political, artistic, designing, wild-picking, growing, roaming, collecting collective. In soft drinks we quickly found problems we could do something about. That’s how the term ‘Fruitslager’ came to life: the fruitslagers designed and produced their first logical soft drink during Dutch Design Week 2016.

Circular

Together with the industry, we’re making the fruit chain circular from bud to stem. This year we expect to press 36,000 kilos of peeled lemons from the limoncello industry for our Citrus Movement, and from the leftovers we brew our own new line of condiments: Test Kitchen!

Biodiversity

Together with farmers, the fruitslagers plant flowers and native herbs that are good for the soil and insects and create new, sustainable business models for the grower. This year we’re planting at least 4 hectares of biodiversity for Bloesem Power and Wilde IJsthee. While you drink, we sow. We do this through regenerative farming, so that together we don’t take from nature, but restore it.

Short supply chain

Together with local farmers we shorten supply chains, which means fewer emissions and a healthy, decentralised economy. This year our ‘Gekke Bessen’ once again grow within ten minutes of us, and we process local standard-tree pears into Dhr. Peer.

Team

Of course, our story doesn’t stop at producing bottles of syrup. It’s carried by an enthusiastic network of restaurants, cafés, festivals and consumers who take our fruit revolution further. What binds us is the realisation that there are no single issues to tackle, but that everywhere around us we see challenges to strive for positive change. Join the #fruitrevolutie.

Biodiversity

Roze Bunker produces soft drinks as a solution and is the very first Fruitslagers product. For these soft drinks we’ve been planting elderflower and wild herbs for years, enriching biodiversity and creating an extra source of income for regenerative farmers. Discover more about which farmers we work with and how we go about it.