The Process

The Cocktail Mixer That Will Change It All...

 RIPE would be lost in a sea of mocktail mixes without our commitment to fresh, natural ingredients, and our attention to quality control and pure processing. 

We all have a bad taste in our mouth (no pun intended) from the classic shelf stable cocktail mixer. Peeps!! Please, there is a major difference between a shelf stable cocktail mixer and RIPE. We do not want to diss other mixers but we take major pride in the fact that we process all our own stuff and we are made and sold cold with fresh juice! This is not an easy task, probably the reason we are the only ones doing it.

When you pick up a bottle of RIPE you know it was made within the past few weeks, not 6 months.....

Fresh, Pure, Natural Ingredients

We're serious about freshness and committed to providing the very best natural-tasting products, hands down! In fact we purposely design our cocktail mixers to be as simple as possible to let the natural flavors of the ingredients do what they do. You will never find anything phony in our mixers.  No artificial colors, flavorings, additives, high-fructose corn syrup, GMO’s, stabilizers, preservatives, sticks, rocks, starfish … you get the point, nothing but pure, natural ingredients from mama nature.

Want proof? Here's the pudding:

Citrus Juices: All of our citrus is bought fresh and delivered daily to our kitchen. We source our citrus from the U.S. and Mexico depending on the time of year. Either way, their held to the same quality standards. ALL of our citrus juices are fresh squeezed in our kitchen daily by a proprietary method that maximizes the fresh taste of our mixers and minimizes the bitter taste that can come from incorrect juicing.

Vegetable Juices: All of the vegetable juices in our mixers are from fresh produce delivered to and pressed in our kitchen daily.

Horseradish: Our fresh horseradish is American grown and supplied to us weekly. We grind this potent root in-house to ensure a superior horse-radishy taste. It also keep our sinuses nice and clear!!!!!

Agave Nectar: We only sweeten with premium 100% organic Agave nectar. This natural liquid sweetener is made from the extract of the wild agave plant, regularly harvested by native Indian peoples in central Mexico. To do so, they slice off the top of the plant and hollow out its core and cap with a stone. The pineapple shaped agave plant secretes its nectar and it collects in the hollow center for several days. Then, the milky white "juice" is removed by ladle, one plant at a time. It doesn't get much more natural than that, my friends.

And for those of you who must monitor your glucose intake, this new sweetener has a relatively low glycemic index of 32 due to its higher proportion of fructose and lower levels of glucose. This also means that it minimzes sugar crashes, so, drink up.

Agave nectar is a bit more expensive but we feel that with this super sweetener we get enjoyable full mouth feel and avoiding a sugar crash is key! 

Our Agave syrup is certified organic. The Agave crops used in producing Agave syrup are agrochemicals free. Growers that supply the raw material use only natural fertilizers and employ agricultural practices that meet organic certification standards.

Spices: We buy only the freshest, premium organic spices we can find. Whenever possible we also grind all our own spices in-house to ensure legit taste and freshness.

Water: Always reverse osmosis filtered. 'Nuff said!

RIPE Pure Processing

Small batch processing is the only way to ensure superior quality and attention to detail. We use a proprietary cold production process that ensures RIPE meets the most stringent standards from start to finish. This means processing all of our own juices and precision flash pasteurizing all of our products to produce a safe, stable product with a taste that is fresh off the tree or vine or plant or ... well you get the drift.

 

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