Botanical tonic
Up Mountain Switchel
Up Mountain · Switchel (ginger, cider vinegar)
Brooklyn, New York, USA
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A heritage switchel built on raw apple cider vinegar and organic maple, charged with enough fresh ginger to land a real chemesthetic burn. It drinks tart and tangy up front, with an orchard-fruit sweetness from the maple and cider that keeps the vinegar from ever turning harsh, then warms through the middle as the ginger heat builds. The close is dry and faintly bitter, a rooty, herbal-medicinal edge that marks it as a tonic rather than a soda. Among our botanical tonics it sits at the spicy, vinegar-forward end of the shelf: a bracing, restorative pour rather than a sweet sipper.
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The maker
Up Mountain Switchel began in Vermont, where co-founders Ely Key and Garrett Riffle brewed their first batch of the old Appalachian haymaker's drink in a family barn in South Londonderry. The company later relocated production to Brooklyn, partnering with a multi-generation family bottling operation in the New York area. Its switchel is built on a short list of organic ingredients and positioned as a gut-friendly, vinegar-and-ginger tonic.
Ingredients & nutrition
Organic maple syrup, Organic apple cider vinegar, Organic fresh ginger root, Mountain water.