TASTE MONTANA
Our Shrubs
What's a Shrub?
Shrubs are old fashioned drinking vinegars. While people have been preserving things with vinegar for thousands of years, the particular concoctions called shrubs might best be thought of as acidified fruit syrups. They are roughly what would be left over if you pickled some fruit, then ate all the fruit.
Shrubs were widely popular during the American colonial era as a delicious way to keep fruit past harvest season. As access to refrigeration became more prevalent, shrubs kind of faded away. That was a mistake and we are going to help correct it.
We make our shrubs with only pressed raw fruit, raw Montana honey, raw apple cider vinegar and water. The outcome is a concentrated liquid that serves as a base for sodas or cocktails whose flavor profile is a balanced layering of bright fruit, florals from the honey, sourness, tanginess and cleansing acidity.
To make a soda:
Mix one part shrub to 5 parts soda water.
Enjoy weekly for optimized digestion.
To make a cocktail:
Build a cocktail in a collins glass with ice.
Add 1 oz Shivelight shrub, 1.5 oz of your favorite liquor and 4oz of soda water with ice.
Gently stir and add a wedge of lemon for garnish.
The sky is the limit on the cocktail side. It's no mistake that shrubs are quickly becoming centerpieces in the arsenals of serious mixologists. Hint: any of these flavors will make the best whiskey sour of your life.
Cheers!
Who We Are
Shivelight is a word for the lances of light that come through a forest canopy. It is a perfect representation of our brand and our vision to understand that often the most transcendent things in life are just simply there to recognized. Our general approach to developing products is to find those things, apply a little art in putting them together, and then just get out of the way.
At Shivelight Premium Beverage Company, we started with two serious commitments: make the highest quality products possible and showcase the natural and agricultural heritage of the great state of Montana. We decided early on that we will have high, truly premium standards, We could use cheap refined sugar, but we use artisanal honey instead. We could use bulk fruit, but we get our fruit from specific places that are known for superiority instead. We could make shrubs with distilled white vinegar, but we use small batch, raw apple cider vinegar instead. You won't find us involved in any race to the bottom and we are proud of that. You will taste the difference.
We take pride in offering products free from artificial preservatives and additives, reflecting our dedication to authenticity and purity. Join us in our journey to share these premium shrubs with the world.
