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Rose Farm Ground Cherry Cola

Developed by Chef Enrique Olvera to showcase the local flavor of our garden

We created Ground Cherry Cola in collaboration with our friend chef Enrique Olvera as his twist on a classic coke bottle gummy, using fresh ground cherries we grow  at the Rose Farm. The Delight begins with our house-made cola syrup, sweetened with brown sugar and organic cane sugar that we melt down into a viscous liquid. Before the mixture caramelizes we halt the cooking and thin the syrup with lemon and orange juice and throw in our aromatics. This year we added a ton of orange and lemon peel, allspice, cinnamon stick, cloves, and vanilla, but were craving some additional complexity, so we added a few shakes of Angostura bitters for a sharper aromatic flavor, and a grating of tonka bean (a cousin of vanilla) for floral nuttiness.

Once we strained out the solids we left the viscous syrup to homogenize and slowly cool before mixing in our ground cherry puree. We reserved the majority of the blended fruit for the end of our cook to preserve as much fresh cherry flavor as possible, leaving on the skins before blending to impart a light bitterness and balance the sugar.

20 Delights per box, 100MG total THC