The Latest from Blue Blaze

It's been a busy few weeks for our little soda company! The Black Mountain Tailgate Market on Saturdays from 9am - noon has picked up steam as it gets warmer out and we just made our debut at the French Broad Food Coop Tailgate Market on Wednesdays from 2pm - 6pm. It's nice to be in Asheville as well as Black Mountain.

We rolled out Nalgene growlers for customers to take their Blue Blaze Soda to go in mid-May:

People can purchase them for $9 for the bottle (non-refundable) and $5 for the soda for a total $14 for the 32 oz container. Then you can just refill it for $5! We have a 64 oz version, too, and it costs $16 for the container and $9 for the soda. We totally sold out of our first round of 32oz bottles! More are being shipped this week!

Then, we started bottling the soda syrups in mason jars:

We used these for the first time at this past weekend's Black Mountain market and totally sold out of soda:

This past weekend we also got to go for a backpacking trip and reminded ourselves why we named our soda Blue Blaze: (the blue strip of paint on that tree leads down to the creek where we camped out!)

With 2 markets per week and restaurants expressing interest in our bottled syrups, we're feeling pretty good about our 3-month-old business! Stay tuned for more updates.

Find us on Saturdays at the Black Mountain Tailgate Market from 9am - noon and Wednesdays at the French Broad Food Coop Market in Asheville from 2pm - 6pm for the coming weeks. Thanks!

New logo

Hey Blue Blaze Soda Fans!

Hopefully you're already our friend on Facebook: www.facebook.com/BlueBlazeSodaCompany and have seen our new logo (above). What do you think?

Last week, May 4, we started selling sodas at the Black Mountain Tailgate Market. It was 40 degrees and rainy, so it was a tough day to start selling cold, refreshing soda. But this week, May 11, it was sunnier and warmer and we sold more than 5 times what we did last week! Wohoo!

We're excited to be in Black Mountain at the Tailgate Market. Hopefully we'll see you there sometime soon! (And hopefully it stays warm and sunny out :)

We'll be back at Black Mountain's Tailgate Market this Saturday, May 18th from 9am - 12noon.