A flavor lab for the curious palate.
The Craft
We craft extracts, syrups, bitters, and tonics that explore what taste can be. Curious, layered, and alive. Every batch begins with an idea: What happens when ginger meets smoke, or a root finds balance in citrus and spice?
A flavor lab where ultrasonics extract, centrifuges clarify, and rotovaps condense. All tools that draw flavor from botanicals, herbs, and acids into pure expression.
Tinker & Tonic Projects
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Craft Bitters
The Classics, Finished. Compound-driven bitters studied and tested to provide structural balance in any glass.
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Flavor Science
Field Notes on volatile compounds, botanical extraction, and why flavors work together. The research in long form.
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Du Vivant
The living drink. A new word for a new world -- Vivant is the category, the standard, and the name the drink deserves.
The Lab
Ultrasonic Homogenization
Lab grade extraction tools that break apart cellular walls to release flavor compounds without waiting months for maceration. Clean and more complete draws from botanicals.
Centrifuge Separation
Clarification at speed - separating solids from liquids to achieve the crystal-clear extracts and bases that let flavor speak without muddled interference.
Rotary Evaporator
Gentle vacuum distillation that concentrates and purifies - capturing volatile aromatics that heat-based methods destroy, preserving the living character of each ingredient.
For Everyone
We care about flavor first. Whether it ends up as a cocktail, a vivant, a shrub, or even something that doesn't have a name yet. Flavor is the name of the game.
Think a tonic that holds its own next to good gin. A syrup that lives somewhere between citrus and bark. A ginger ale with real bite, with or without the spirit. We're creating flavors that make you pause either way.
Extraction Services
Big ideas need precision tools. Centrifuges. Ultrasonic extractors. Rotovaps. Equipment most small producers can't justify owning alone.
Tinker & Tonic offers extraction, clarification, and formulation services for makers who need lab-grade capability without lab-grade overhead.
Your idea. Our equipment. Let's build.
Everyone on this list has ideas bigger than their equipment budget. We're the bridge.
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