Rocky Mountain Soda.

• Author: Peterson, Eric
• Position: COLORADO COOL STUFF - Brief article

Two years ago, Chris "Moose" Koons, Drew Fulton and Rory Donovan bought some soda-making equipment from the Palisade Brewery and trucked it up to Commerce City. The trio then experimented with flavors for a good year and debuted Rocky Mountain Soda last summer.

"We wanted to go a different route than other soda manufacturers," Koons says. "Instead of high-fructose corn syrup or cane sugar, we use Colorado beet sugar as a sweetener. We use dramatically less sugar and try to concentrate on the flavor."

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With 10 brands ranging from such expected flavors as Colorado Cola and Rocky Mountain Root Beer...