Spirit of Colorado

By: Kendall Kostelic Strongwater’s old-world blends add a salubrious shot (and seriously good flavor) to drinks   Good-for-you cocktails? Sign us up! That’s the promise of Strongwater Spirits and Botanicals, a Denver-based company recently launched by husband-and-wife team Nick and Asha Andresen. Since December of last year, the couple has been offering a range of handcrafted, small-batch herbal bitters and shrubs to the mocktail and cocktail world. So just what are bitters? They’re “elixirs that doctors first prescribed as medicine,” Nick says, and that are made by infusing bark, roots and herbs into grain alcohol. Shrubs are a bit different:...

Welcome to the new Strongwater blog, The Spirit of Colorado! Here we will be sharing cool news, fun and interesting information, releases, and other great stuff related to what we, the Strongwater Team are up to in Denver Colorado.