About Stirrings
"We believe in using only the best ingredients - fresh juice, purified water and a touch of imagination - because after all, better ingredients make better cocktails!"
Stirrings. the cocktail is back, and better than ever! The Stirrings cocktail collection brings everything you need to shake a perfect cocktail, except for the alchoholic part! This means readymade Cocktail Mixers with the finest all-natural ingredients, fantastic flavours and great looks.
But... no cocktail should go naked! Therefore Stirrings created an amazing and luxurious Rimmer for each Cocktail Mixer. These Rimmers create a perfect salt- or sugar-rimmed glass wich really complements your cocktail. It tastes and looks fantastic!
Philosophy
Stirrings and CuliShop believe that great food and drinks, enjoyed with friends, is an absolute. It cannot be challenged. It is one of the few combinations that will always make you happy, give you pleasure, and give you pause for reflection. All is right with the world, all is well.
Chasing this ideal has taken us off the beaten path at times. Down back roads to find that great restaurant. Across the street to "borrow" ripe August tomatoes in the middle of the night. Sprinting across the city for a spectacular sandwich. But it is always worth it.
It is with this inspiration that Gil and I started Stirrings. We both spent time tending bar in college - Gil at St Lawrence's Tick Tock, a local college bar near campus, where he served mostly beer and "Beam and Coke." I worked at Chadwick's, an old Georgetown drinking establishment tucked under the railroad tracks near the harbor where I tended bar on Thursday nights. This was not high end bartending, but we saw the pleasure and value in serving friends beverages in a fun atmosphere, and a seed was planted.
In 2000, we introduced our first bar products - Rimmer brand cocktail garnishes - that grew out of our spice rub line, Nantucket Off-ShoreTM. The products were a response to the old margarita salt that we had always enjoyed around the rim of our margaritas. Using mint, cilantro, lime and sea salt, we introduced our Margarita Rimmer Cocktail Garnish in July in New York. The response was overwhelming. Since then, we have introduced more than 50 amazing cocktail ingredients in our lines of Rimmer Cocktail Garnishes, Cocktail Mixers, Cocktail Essences, Cocktail Sodas, and Bar Ingredients. Under the name Stirrings, we have set out to make people think the same way about their beverages as they do about food: better ingredients lead to better taste and better times.
At Stirrings, we use only the finest cane sugar, only the freshest juice, and triple filtered water. We can't claim that drinking is healthy, only that better, brighter taste can only be achieved by using great ingredients. The alternative product is manufactured using artificial colors and flavors, corn syrup, preservatives and no juice. The taste is noticeably different. Our new approach to a century old American tradition has turned heads, and made a lot of people think differently about how they make their cocktails. We like to think we are stirring up the cocktail world by helping people stir better cocktails.
Products
CuliShop imports two productlines from Stirrings. Every product is made to be the very best! Each and Every ingredient is imported directly to maintain their quality. A time-consuming and intensive approach wich leads to the fact that the products of Stirrings are the best of their kind.
Rimmers
Rimmers were the first products Stirrings introduced to the market. Stirrings was also the first company wich changed the original concept of the rimmer into the beautiful rimmers as we know nowadays. They were introduced on the New York Fancy Food Show in july 2000. The introduction was an exceptional success and Stirrings won "the best of aisle" prize of the year.
Since that day every self-respecting cocktail-lover uses a Stirrings Rimmer to complement their cocktail!
Mixers
The Cocktail Mixers were introduced at the New York Fancy Food Show in 2002. In fact these Mixers are readymade cocktails, you only need to add a lot of crushed ice and some rum, tequila, vodka, wine or champagne! You can also serve a virgin-cocktail! Only the best ingredients are good enough. Stirrings uses triple filtered water, pure cane sugar en real fruit to create their Cocktail Mixers. We import ten of their lovely flavours.
The facts
"Under the guiding principle that better ingredients make better cocktails, we bring you these super-premium cocktail products that serve as the foundation of any great cocktail! Cheers!"
Stirrings products remain a testament to the fact that quality, great taste and convenience are not mutually exclusive. To achieve this combination, the company uses only the finest, all-natural or all-organic ingredients like real fruit juices, cane sugar and triple-filtered water. Stirrings operates under HACCP protocols.
Stirrings' highly accomplished Research & Development and Quality team continues to push the envelope on innovative development and sourcing, on the look out for the best quality fruit varietals and the most advanced production techniques. Thanks to the efforts of this amazing team, Stirrings products are regarded as the most innovative and advanced on the market. Their work continues to give us some pretty amazing bragging rights:
· Stirrings' mixers use all-natural or all-organic ingredients, that means real fruit juice and cane sugar. Stirrings is also defined by what you will not find in their products: no preservatives, no high fructose corn syrup, and no artificial colors, flavors, sweeteners or other ingredients you can’t pronounce.
· Stirrings' first organic product line, Stirrings Classic Cocktail Collection, recently launched at the Summer Fancy Food Show this summer.
· All Stirrings products are Kosher Certified (U), with the only exception being their Rimmer® Garnish line.
· Responsible sourcing is driven by the belief that creating a great cocktail experience means doing the right thing: carefully selecting the right suppliers of their ingredients and throughout their entire production process.
· CuliShop Import sells the top 10 flavours (Mixers & Rimmers) of Stirrings, for the European market.
· All Stirrings products are all natural! Real fruit, pure cane sugar and triple filtered water.
· Good cocktails know no boundaries! Stirrings cocktails are made for fine food shops, de supermarket for high end consumers, wineshops, liquorstores, bars or lounges, hotels, online shops. De Stirrings mixers are featured in the business class of Delta Airlines! Take a look at Delta's website: http://www.tradenewsonline.com/content/show/id/510.
· Stirrings' cocktails are the best, and everybody knows it! Stirrings was in 2006 on number 78 of Inc. 500 list, the list of the 500 fastest growing companies of the United States of America. In 2005, Stirrings became a NASFT (National Association for the Speciality Food Trade) finalist for the Outstanding Product Line. In 2003, Stirrings was a finalist for Best Food Gift with NASFT.