{"id":12558,"date":"2020-10-27T17:24:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T23:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theginisin.com\/?post_type=tonicwater&p=12558"},"modified":"2020-10-27T17:24:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T23:24:05","slug":"sprouts-tonic-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/?p=12558","title":{"rendered":"Sprouts Tonic Water"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sprouts Tonic Water is the store brand tonic from Phoenix, Arizona based Sprouts Farmer’s Markets<\/a>. It’s a highly sweetened store brand tonic; however it notably uses sugar rather than high fructose corn syrup.<\/p>\n

Tasting Notes<\/h2>\n

Poured, Sprouts Tonic Water has a rapid effervescence and nice head. Medium sized bubbles remain in the glass. To the nose, there’s a slight tinge of sweet lime.<\/p>\n

Sipped, it’s incredibly sweet. The bubbles retain only a bit of texture on the front of the palate\u2014 and then BOOM\u2014 they’re gone. Citrus hovers in the background suggesting lime early and then white grapefruit pith later.<\/p>\n

The quinine, while present in Sprouts Tonic Water is rather mild. It makes it quite accessible and rather easy to drink; however, it also means that especially on the finish Sprouts Tonic Water lacks in a bit of character.<\/p>\n

Gin and Tonic<\/h2>\n

I mixed Sprouts’ Tonic with some Back River Gin.<\/a> The gin character takes over the nose with cinnamon and vegetal notes. On the palate\u2014 there’s plenty of cinnamon, but the high sweetness almost lends it a\u00a0Big Red Chewing Gum<\/em> type of flavor. The bitterness is felt perceptually on the palate but not quite tasted. The tonic recedes into the background, overpowered with an assertive gin.<\/p>\n

Overall Sprouts Tonic Water<\/h2>\n

Sprouts Tonic Water is among the better of the store brands<\/a> I’ve tasted<\/a>. I like the use of real sugar and I think it gives Sprouts Tonic Water a better mouthfeel than many of its competitors.<\/p>\n

However, when mixed with gin, you’re likely to get more sweet and less quinine. Ultimately, if a tonic water is going to be so heavy-handed with sweetener, I’d like to see it heavy handed with the bitter so both come through. Mix it with anything louder than a 37.5% ABV gin\u2014 and it’s lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sprouts Tonic Water is the store brand tonic from Phoenix, Arizona based Sprouts Farmer’s Markets. It’s a highly sweetened store brand tonic; however it notably uses sugar rather than high fructose corn syrup. Tasting Notes Poured, Sprouts Tonic Water has a rapid effervescence and nice head. Medium sized bubbles remain in the glass. To the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}