The Abbina Experience

How to get the most out of Abbina

Abbina Craft Sipping Soda is a complex, pre-mixed non-alcoholic cocktail with unexpected and fascinating flavors that are designed to help you discover new sensory experiences. Here’s how to best enjoy them.

Smell then sip

Take a small sniff. You’ll notice “top” notes that are bold. Then take a sip, swallow, and breathe out through your nose. You’ll notice a host of flavors coming through that will be different from what you smelled. This is what we call “retronasal olfaction,” it’s how people perceive flavor, which is actually just scent through our throats up into our noses.

See what lingers

What makes Abbina unique, setting it apart from any other beverage you might pair, is that there are ingredients that are designed to linger on your palate and build over time. You’ll notice that those bold “top” notes you smelled at the start will likely disappear quickly, but you’ll be left with the hint of the more subtle “base” notes lingering around. Those are the flavors that will combine with whatever you choose to pair, both helping you find new flavors in that pairing as well as creating entirely new flavors you’ve never experienced before.

Start cold

Abbina’s complex flavors will shift over time, both once the bottle is open and the liquid is exposed to air, and also as the temperature shifts. We recommend you crack the bottle as cold as you can get it, then let it warm as you sip and enjoy your pairing. New flavor experiences will reveal themselves.

Have fun

The most important thing is to enjoy a new experience. We can always help with pairing recommendations - available through this website and on our social media - but there are infinite flavor possibilities so your experimentation can only help to bring you even more exciting flavor adventures.

Thank you for being part of Abbina!

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