Acid Phosphate

Acid Phosphate can be used in cocktails to enhance the sour character. Because most cocktails use lemon or lime juice to balance sweetness, there is a tendency for many drinks to taste similar because of the fruity nature of the citrus juice. Acid Phosphate is a perfect way to change the character of a drink.

Acid Phosphate has a pH between 2.0 and 2.2, or about the same as fresh squeezed lime juice.

Size: 250mL (8 oz) bottle, which is enough to make 50 to 100 drinks.

Usage: ½ to 1 tsp of Acid Phosphate per drink

For over 70 years, the “phosphated soda” ruled the soda fountain and then in the late 1950s the Phosphate disappeared. Fifty years later Acid Phosphate, the ingredient that made the phosphate unique, has returned.

Some of the most popular soda fountain drinks included the Cherry Phosphate and Chocolate Phosphate, while the local saloon touted the Angostura Phosphate as the perfect remedy for the previous days excesses. There are literally hundreds of phosphate style drinks that haven’t been tasted for decades, waiting to be rediscovered.