We get email: From Steve Hersh, owner of GuS Sodas

I recently featured this company's line of sodas, and mentioned that I was all excited to find from the nicely done website that they were available just a couple miles down the street, at my local crunchy granola health food store.

So I dutifully headed down there, but alas, no GuS Soda.

GuS, by the way, is an acronym for Grown-Up Soda.

So duh, when I received this nice comment:

Joe, Thanks for the kind words about GuS. Steve Hersh Owner, GuS Sodas

from the company's owner, Steve Hersh, I replied immediately and told him how sorry I was not to actually be able to try the very same drinks served at 4-star restaurants like The French Laundry and Charlie Trotter's.

Steve said "Oh, no," and said he'd send me some.

And darned if, two days later, a box from GuS wasn't sitting on my doorstep.

Into the fridge they went, and I'm here now to report on what I thought of the soda.

Long story short: it's excellent.

Tastes like the fruit in each flavor, yet "not too sweet" - just like it says on the bottle.

Steve sent one of each of the company's five flavors: Star Red Grapefruit, Dry Meyer Lemon, Dry Crimson Grape, Dry Valencia Orange, and Extra Dry Ginger Ale.

Now, the next thing to do is go beat on Rebecca's owner and get him to stock this stuff.