What’s Shrub?

Our shrub is modern take on an ancient elixir, a drink concentrate made with a refreshing blend of cold pressed fruit juices and organic unfiltered apple cider vinegar (ACV).

Available in Pear Ginger, Cucumber Lime and Rhubarb Vanilla, one bottle makes up to 16 drinks.

Why It’s Hot

From millennials to boomers, today’s consumers want “better for you” drink alternatives that help maintain their healthy lifestyles. In fact, healthy and functional beverages like Shrub are driving explosive category growth in the U.S., with Canada set to follow suit. Here’s why:

•It’s delicious way to get your daily dose of ACV, a trending functional ingredient

•This is a low-sugar, whole product with natural and organic ingredients. We don’t use concentrates and don’t need to pasteurize, so you get all of the good and none of the bad!

•It’s better value per serving when compared to kombucha, cold brew coffee or fresh juice

Naughty and Nice

Shrub is also very popular with cocktail enthusiasts and mixologists. Why? The apple cider vinegar combines with the fruit juice to produce complex and satisfying flavour notes that make shrub an excellent cocktail ingredient. You don’t have to take our word for it, if you’re in Toronto you can check it us out on the cocktail menu at The Drake Commissary, The Symes and The Fifth.

Scroll down for great recipes using all 3 flavours.

Ontario Pear & Ginger Shrub Recipes

1 oz Top Shelf Vodka
1 oz Manning Canning Pear & Ginger Shrub
Ginger Beer, lemon juice and Top Shelf Allspice bitters

Jim and Ginger (Created by The Ace)

Jim Beam Bourbon (2oz)
Manning Canning Pear Ginger Shrub (1.5oz)
Fresh-Squeezed Lemon Juice (1oz)
Honey Simple Syrup (.75oz)
Shake with ice and pour into chilled martini glass
Garnish w/crystallized ginger on a skewer

Pear Sparkler

3oz Sparking Water
1oz Ontario Pear & Ginger Shrub
garnish with Candied Ginger

Ginger & Stormy

1oz Ontario Ginger & Pear Shrub
2oz Spiced Rum
3.5oz Ginger Beer

Rim your glass with sugar, combine all ingredients over ice and let sit and then strain ice out and pour into glass and enjoy!

The Ginger Fizz

1.5oz Dark Rum
4oz Ontario Pear & Ginger Shrub
125ml Sprite
2 drops old fashioned bitter

Combine all ingredients in a glass with ice, garnish with a lemon and serve.

The Dark Stranger

2 oz el dorado white rum
1/2 oz aperol
3/4 oz Ontario Ginger & Pear Shrub
3/4 oz fresh squeezed lime juice
2 twist of lemon peel

Combine all ingredients in a glass with ice, garnish with a lemon peel and serve.

Ontario Rhubarb and Vanilla Shrub Recipes

The Molly Ringwald

Recipe: Make ginger root concentrate by heating 1L water, 1 cup sugar, and 4 tablespoons Ginger Root tea in a pot. Bring to simmer and turn off heat. Strain. Keeps for a week in the fridge. In a cocktail shaker, muddle a few fresh raspberries, then add 1oz fruit shrub (in this case rhubarb vanilla) and 1oz ginger concentrate. Add ice, shake and strain over a glass full of ice. Add soda and lime wedges to finish. Delish!

Vanilla Rhubarb Fizz

1 oz Top Shelf Gin
1/2 oz Aperol
1 oz Manning Canning Rhubarb Vanilla Shrub
2 oz Soda water
Top Shelf Orange Bitters

As served at The Restaurant Canada Show 2018

Rhubarb Sour

1.5 oz Dillon's Gin
1/2 oz fresh squeezed lemon juice
1/2 oz Ontario Rhubarb &Vanilla Shrub
Soda water
Garnish with lemon slice

Combine gin, lemon juice and shrub to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Combine ingredients and shake until chilled. Strain over tall glass of your choice. Add soda water and garnish. Serve.

Rhubarb Kir

1.5 oz Ontario Rhubarb &Vanilla Shrub
Champagne of your choice

Pour shrub into a champagne flute and top with champagne. Serve.

Rhubarb & Campari with Soda

1.5 oz Ontario Rhubarb &Vanilla Shrub
2 oz Campari
Soda Water

Fill a narrow glass with ice, add the campari and shrub. Stir to combine. Top with soda water. Serve.

Rhubarb Frescinator

1.5 oz 66 Gilead Distillery Whole Wheat Vodka
2 oz Ontario Rhubarb & Vanilla Shrub
Fresca

Fill a tall narrow glass with ice, add the vodka and shrub. Stir to combine. Top with Fresca. Serve.

Cucumber & Lime Recipes

Cucumber Lime Gimlet

1 oz Top Shelf Gin
1 oz Manning Canning Cucumber Lime Shrub
Green Chartreuse, lemon juice and Top Shelf Lemongrass bitters

Cucumber Rosemary Gimlet

2 oz Tanqueray Gin
1 oz Manning Canning Cucumber Lime Shrub
12 fresh rosemary leaves

Muddle rosemary with shrub and double strain, add gin and shake w/ice. Serve straight up in chilled glass and garnish w/cucumber ribbon and sprig of rosemary

Recipes