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My good friend, B. Thom Stevenson and I started Miracle Seltzer in 2019 combining our love for Cady Noland, government cheese, and sparkling water, in an attempt to create the first conceptual art beverage. A drinkable fluxus object that brings a little bit of actual magic to your refrigerator. Nothing like starting a seltzer company with no beverage experience at all a few months before a pandemic. Last year was stressful beyond belief trying to keep our bubbles afloat but we survived somehow and now weâre feeling refreshed, so much so I had to plug myself here. Miracle Seltzer will make all of your dreams come true. I made a coupon code for those of you who are reading thisâŚgo to miracleseltzer.com and use âNEWSLETTERâ at checkout.
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đ§Hello lovely people, this is not a recommendation in regular sense, but more so an excuse to ramble about sparkling water.
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I donât like sparkling water. Yet here I am, with a shiny green can of Lime LaCroix perched on a feminist poetry book beside me. âWhy?â You ask. Because everyone in my family drinks it, and I on the rare occasion I cannot be bothered to fill up a glass, if nothing else graces the fridge, a sparkling water is what Iâll take.
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I confess, I actually am a fan of many flavors of Waterloo. I donât drink or like soda much, but it reminds me the most of a soda, it tastes the least like the spicy medicinal whizz that is LaCroix. Bubly is somewhere in the middle, the carbonation levels are alright, but the flavors are here and there. Bonus points for the pronunciation of the name though.
I got sidetracked, but my story continues. I drank at least one every day or two, which (paired with a brief year-long stint in North Africa) led to the unfortunate accident of my family being convinced I enjoyed bubbly beverages large and small. So for my birthday, a sparkling water machine it was.
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Now, here I am with this device. A soda stream capable of (what seems to me) industrial level carbonation. Do I love carbonated beverages? Not quite. Will I become a connoisseur just for the bit of it? Absolutely.
Sprinkle recommendations for things I should bubble in the comments and report back I will.
See you again soon lovely people.
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I donât like sparkling water. Yet here I am, with a shiny green can of Lime LaCroix perched on a feminist poetry book beside me. âWhy?â You ask. Because everyone in my family drinks it, and I on the rare occasion I cannot be bothered to fill up a glass, if nothing else graces the fridge, a sparkling water is what Iâll take.
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I confess, I actually am a fan of many flavors of Waterloo. I donât drink or like soda much, but it reminds me the most of a soda, it tastes the least like the spicy medicinal whizz that is LaCroix. Bubly is somewhere in the middle, the carbonation levels are alright, but the flavors are here and there. Bonus points for the pronunciation of the name though.
I got sidetracked, but my story continues. I drank at least one every day or two, which (paired with a brief year-long stint in North Africa) led to the unfortunate accident of my family being convinced I enjoyed bubbly beverages large and small. So for my birthday, a sparkling water machine it was.
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Now, here I am with this device. A soda stream capable of (what seems to me) industrial level carbonation. Do I love carbonated beverages? Not quite. Will I become a connoisseur just for the bit of it? Absolutely.
Sprinkle recommendations for things I should bubble in the comments and report back I will.
See you again soon lovely people.
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