our sodas

Let Us Introduce You to Hotlips Soda

HOTLIPS Soda is made to worship the magnificent fruits and berries grown in the Pacific Northwest. With taste blasts and shifts in flavor, and surprising notes and harmonies, each sip tells the story of prime growing conditions and the hard work of growers.

HOTLIPS Soda is real fruit soda, traditionally brewed. Picked-ripe fruit is cooked in open kettles, bringing out its nuanced flavors. Seeds are filtered out (but not pulp), then water, pure cane sugar and organic lemon juice are added. Then it is carbonated, put into bottles and pasteurized.

 

Chef-driven and overseen, our sodas contain lots of real fruit—no shortcuts, supplements, artificial flavors, colors or trickery. And no corn syrup. Brewed throughout the year in Portland, even the bottles are made from 80% locally manufactured recycled glass.Early summer declares itself with cherry and raspberry. Late summer brings marionberry,blackberry, and the haunted-looking beauty — the black raspberry. The nights cool and apples and pears ripen. Flavor nuance in HOTLIPS Soda varies from batch to batch depending on the varietal, the heat of the day and cool of the night. Creating connoisseurs young and old as they compare batches, seasons and years, equalizing food snobs and kids.

What’s your favorite flavor?


Available now: Cherry, Blackberry, Pear, Raspberry, Boysenberry, and Black Raspberry. More flavors to come. There are often very special surprise flavors on tap in the fiveHOTLIPS pizzerias in Portland. Like huckleberry, picked on the slopes of Mt. Adams and organic loganberries from Ayers Creek Farm in Gaston. So good!

Can you love more than one?

Our mission is to preserve culture and celebrate humanity through rich culinary traditions and by joining with others in finding new ways—sustainable ways—of doing business. We aim to make each day better and delicious!

14 Responses to “our sodas”

  • I am such a great fan of your Hot Lips Sodas, they completely embody the use of local, sustainable berries within a unique and great tasting product.

    This is what the Oregon story is all about, cooperation between berry growers and product manufacturers to create a drink that is good for you and good for the planet.

    I wanted to let you know that your Hot Lips soda was a big hit at the Oregon Raspberry & Blackberry Commission meeting last night. Everyone was raving about it!

    Posted by Cat M. on January 7, 2009 2:46 pm

  • Those sodas are just amazing! Of the ones I sampled, I think my favorites are the boysenberry and the pear. However, it is really hard to pick as they are all great.

    Posted by Elizabeth D. on January 7, 2009 2:46 pm

  • I’ve never had soda that tasted so much like fresh fruit. Terrific product. Can’t wait for new flavors!

    Posted by Andy O. on January 9, 2009 3:24 pm

  • We’re proud to be distributing HLSodas to our wholesale coffee accounts now, spreading the gospel of amazing, local, sustainable products in Clatsop & Pacific Counties. It’s flying out the door of OUR coffeehouse, too! –Nancy

    Posted by Columbia River Coffee Roaster on January 23, 2009 10:34 am

  • Moved to the Portland area about 9 months ago, and one of the best discoveries I’ve made so far is Hotlips Pear Soda. That stuff RULES North America. Tastes just like you’re drinking a fresh pear. Portland rocks for many reasons, but high on the list are your sodas. Keep it up!!

    Posted by Jim H. on March 9, 2009 10:24 am

  • I moved away from Portland to California about a year ago, and miss the sodas. I am coming home for a week and plan on brining a variety of sodas back to california with me. Nobody does it like hotlips and portalnd.

    Posted by Alexandrea Brandon on May 27, 2009 3:35 pm

  • I don’t drink soda – normally, but after I was introduced to Hot Lips on a trip to Portland I was hooked. Not only did I pack it in my luggage to bring back as gifts, it was the best birthday surprise when a variety pack showed up at my Phoenix home! Can’t wait til we have Hot Lips out here in the desert!
    Thank you for your delicious sodas!

    Posted by Katie H. on August 1, 2009 4:11 pm

  • Best soda I’ve ever had.

    Posted by rachgoldberg on August 21, 2009 12:32 pm

  • My grandparents lived in Woodburn. In the summer of ’72, we went to visit them and my grandma had made some black raspberry jam. The other day I had my first Hot Lips soda, a black raspberry. It tasted like grandma’s jam! Mmmmmmmmmmm.

    Posted by Catherine on September 28, 2009 1:17 pm

  • I wish this was available to purchase online! I saw this on the food network I believe and am dying to try it. Looks like I will have to venture into the city(Chicago) to the one place I found relatively close to me!

    Posted by kerry on January 26, 2011 2:01 pm

  • love the sodas,is there a possible Tart Watermelon in the future?

    Posted by Michael Mize on June 10, 2012 8:04 am

  • Just had my first Hotlips Soda, Boysenberry, best soda I have ever tasted. We immediately ordered a case to ship home to Idaho, can’t wait to share with friends!

    Posted by Carmen Van Lith on August 20, 2012 4:45 am

  • I love your raspberry soda as my old standby, but I’m really sad you got rid of the strawberry! Please bring it back so I can stockpile some cases of it!

    Posted by Leah Webber on December 11, 2012 10:55 pm

  • Thanks Carmen!

    Posted by David on March 20, 2013 4:53 pm

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