The comeback of lemonades

Neither achingly sweet nor alarmingly green, the lemonades of today have exciting new flavors and are made from pure, natural ingredients.

When we were children and went to visit our Grandma, two glasses were always standing ready on the granite kitchen counter for my brother and me. Usually it was the classic Dutch lemonade known as Ranja: vividly orange in color and with a sickly-sweet flavor. Sometimes she bought grenadine. And when she bought the green stuff, we were really happy. The flavor didn’t matter—it was that crazy green hue that we just totally loved.  We never could have dreamed back then that syrup drinks would be making a big comeback 40 years 
later. Or that cool tattooed hipsters would be the ones putting this old-fashioned children’s drink back on 
the map.

Its resurgence is strong. First the syrups, lemonades and alternative soft drinks started appearing on food trucks and at music festivals, and now dozens of syrups and ready-made lemonades are available 
in local supermarkets. Known by many different names—lemonade, syrup, cordial or squash—they are being sold in small or big bottles, in pretty shapes and with beautiful labels. And now that just about every department store and supermarket has a house-brand syrup or lemonade (complete with swingtop bottle and retro label) in its range, it’s pretty clear that the trend has transcended the hipster hype.