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Yacht Club Soda

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“ There are other flavors of course, including old-fashioned kinds like orange cream, birch beer , sarsaparilla, etc. ” in 12 reviews

“ If you want to check out all their flavors, head over to their factory store and see what they have to offer. ” in 7 reviews

“ I am not a big soda drinker , but at the begging of my teenage children, I stopped my one day and let them buy a case. ” in 3 reviews

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2239 Mineral Spring Ave

North Providence, RI 02911

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Yacht Club Bottling Works opened in 1915 with the goal of bringing a premium quality beverage to Rhode Island. A lot has changed over the last 95 years, but Yacht Club, The Official Soda and Water Company of Rhode Island, is still dedicated to providing premium quality beverages to Rhode Island and surrounding areas. Yacht Club only uses glass bottles for carbonated soft drinks. Glass, because it keeps the contents fresh and pure unlike any other container. Every drink produced begins with natural artesian water, from an artesian well drilled through the bedrock 180ft below the building, in 1923. The water is natural mineral water and has exceptional characteristics for carbonation. Its natural temperature is 45 degrees, which allows carbonation without the use of cooling towers that can be bad for the environment. Also the water naturally accepts 5.5 volumes of carbonation without alteration. This means NO SALT ADDED for carbonation. …

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Yacht club soda is amazing! It is always a treat when we can get it and they have over 20 flavors and they're all delicious. The staff is very nice and they will help you bring out the sodas to your car.

At the risk of sounding a wee-bit pretentious, I am going to tell you that I do not drink soda. It's just not for me, and I know how completely unhealthy it is so I just steer clear. Most of the time, that is. You see, on occasion I will make an exception for Yacht Club, because they make it old-school and right here in my beloved Rhode Island! How can I resist? Lemme tell ya a story. The Hus and I were perusing through the lovely Hope Street Farmer's Market one sunny summer morning, and the Yacht Club crew had themselves a stand, and were happily handing out samples. Now, The Hus likes to play mixologist in his spare time, so he zeroed on on the Tonic Water and Seltzer, but I saw Saspailla. And Birch Beer. And Ginger Beer. I got wicked excited and we bough a mixed 6-pack. I could hardly wait for my Dark 'n' Stormy that evening. I will say this: drink the flavored soda on it's own. Because they're more flavorful and less sweet, they're too good to mix. I like mine over ice, not rum - it's really the perfect non-alcoholic beverage for get-togethers and a hot summer day. The tonic and seltzer, however, are a dream for mixed drinks. I love that they're local, and I love that you can order directly from them at the North Providence plant. They make everything in-house and in small batches, and they make their own syrup which is really cool.

Funky home grown soda company with a plethora of flavors, all available in mix and match at the company store. Save the bottles and get a four dollar credit per case.

I found my way to the Yacht Club factory store because I was looking for favors for my wedding. I needed something local, nostalgic, nautical, and with a vintage-feel. This soda ticked all those boxes! Once I walked in the door, a bell went off and a man immediately stopped his work and walked over to me in the small display area. I told him I needed 6 cases of soda, so he handed me the boxes and patiently waited as I filled each one. He then stacked them onto a hand truck and took them out to my car. I was in and out in less than 10 minutes with 144 bottles of soda at less than $22 a case. I love how each flavor has a unique label with a different RI scene (Point Judith, Warwick Neck, New Shoreham, Newport Harbor etc.), and the sodas themselves are so colorful and varied. I got flavors from pineapple and strawberry to cola and tonic...I think they will appeal to all my guests, be it a fruit punch for a child or a ginger beer mixer for an adult. I really love all the old-fashioned flavors that you just can't get from run-of-the-mill soda companies, like sarsparilla and birch beer. Add a pack of Aquidneck honey straws and a ribbon with a "thank you" tag and viola! My favors are fun, cute, local, and less than $3 a person. Brides, feel free to steal this idea :P.

My wedding favors...thanks, Yacht Club!

I stopped in a few weeks back with my 10 month old son to check out the outlet store. I ended up buying a mixed case of soda. A steal at 16 bucks! And, if you return the bottles, they give you 3 dollars back. I'm not a big soda drinker, but I like to support local businesses. Plus, I figured I'd give most of the drinks away or have it on hand for company. I chose Grape, Strawberry, Pineapple, Birch, Ginger beer, Cola, Cherry Cola, Sasparilla, and Lemon-Lime. All of them were delicious...not as sweet as the big brands, most likely because they use real sugar instead of that HFCS garbage. The guy that helped me out even helped me load the case in my car! Nice! I thought this case of soda would last all summer, but I was wrong. The drinks were so good, it lasted only a few weeks.

The best birch beer you will ever have. Period. Awesome root beer, and sarsaparilla too.

I love, love, love Yacht Club sodas! I am not a big soda drinker, but at the begging of my teenage children, I stopped my one day and let them buy a case. Let me tell you, I was very impressed! The owner gave the boys a tour of his plant, showed them how the soda was made and bottled (yep, done right there) and I discovered that they actually use REAL SUGAR! That's right, no high fructose corn syrup here, just the real thing! The soda taste good, is sold in GLASS bottles, and is only 110 calories a bottle! Woo hoo! Do I buy soda all the time now, absolutely not, but it is worth the trip to Yacht Club and is a nice treat for the kiddos every once in a while! Bottom line: enjoy a guilt-free soda pop, my friends!

This charming and much beloved local business has been a special part of my life for as long as I can remember. When I was a very small child living in North Providence, my father would take us here as a special treat. We would eagerly feed our quarters into the metal pre - chilled soda dispenser and when that glass door opened we would extract our sweet treat and pop the top off on the bottle opener that was provided on the machine. Now the caps are twist off. *sigh* The soda tastes the same though. And now I take my children here when I'm in town to indulge in the whole experience and hopefully make the same simply sweet memories that they'll remember forever. The soda is that good... You can find vendors around RI who carry Yacht Club, but part of the charm is in the building and the plethora of flavors and the ability to buy by the case (save the bottles and return them and you'll save a bit of money) and the associate who has been there FOREVER... My personal favorite is the lemon - lime. My children love the root beer and sarsaparilla. The flavored seltzers are great for making spritzers. You just *cannot* get any better than a Yacht Club beverage. Please stop here and often. Keep this RI gem alive!

This is the best of the fizzy stuff, right here in lil' Rhody. You can go to this home base for your bubbly needs but they also do a great job at representing at the local farmer's markets, and even take your Yacht Club empties there for return. I'm not a big soda drinker - a Coke or root beer here and there - but I find these soda flavors delish and not too sweet. Syrups made in-house with real sugar, so they make an orange soda that kicks Fanta's ass. Selters are great, too. Ooo and Lemon! Had a zoo of kids/teens at our wedding last summer, and thought Yacht Club would be the perfect beverage alternative. People went crazy for it! I'm not just talkin' the kids. And the Yacht Club staff were great to work with, sending my hubs off with samples for us to work our way through before deciding which cases to order. Now my only kvetch: why is there not more Yacht Club at local restaurants or sandwich shops!? I think I've only spotted it once or twice. C'mon guys, get yourselves out there!

Apr 6, 2012

Thanks for the great review! Just wanted to let you know we are in quite a few restaurants, bars & food trucks now. Check out our Facebook page for more info. We're currently updating our website and the new site should be released in the coming weeks with a Vendor page to make it easier to find where we are :)

So this place has come a long way. It has a great retail set up!! If you had been here before its update... you'd understand. There are 2 convenient ways to enter the parking lot. One at the base of mineral spring and one on what I can only describe as the 44 connector... I don't know the street name. This soda is sold at many local business and had a great variety of flavors. If you do buy please bring the bottles back! That's what I was doing, dropping of bottles from my state wide adventures. I've been told the reuse them! I have bought this soda for so many of my nautical themed events and the colors of the more unique flavors are so bright! They all make great mixers for your party!

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By Anne Barnard

• Sept. 15, 2008

MOSCOW — Perhaps it was only a matter of time, after the sushi bars and the cappuccino bars and the wine bars and the art spaces: Lofts are coming to Moscow.

Here in the capital of the former workers’ state, the first old factory building to be converted into apartments — with soaring ceilings and gritty details that would make any New York real estate broker tremble — is an icon of Soviet industry, and of Russia’s transition to capitalism.

The Krasny Oktyabr chocolate factory — named Red October in honor of the 1917 revolution — sits on an island in the Moscow River, across from the Kremlin’s turreted walls and gold-domed churches.

Its crenellated red-brick building, built in the late 19th century when the company was a German-owned purveyor to the tsars, is a beloved landmark that conjures up images of Willy Wonka’s magical workshop. In winter, when the factory was working, its chimney sent white puffs of steam drifting over the frozen river, and from the opposite bank workers in white kerchiefs and aprons could be seen scurrying in and out.

No more. In this oil-rich boomtown, where a square yard of downtown residential space sells routinely for $20,000 and sometimes for as much as $50,000, city planners and shareholders have decided that assembly lines next to the Kremlin no longer make sense.

The factory’s fate tells a story of how one Russian business has evolved with the zigs and zags of the country’s economy since the fall of first the Romanovs and then the Soviet Union.

In the 19th century, the German-owned Einem factory, as it was then known, decorated its ornate chocolate boxes with the faces of the tsars. After nationalization, new labels showed revolutionaries storming the Winter Palace. Later, one box showed a smiling child, with the logo, “Thank you, Stalin, for our happy childhood!”

In the 1990s, the factory’s managers gamely embraced privatization. But at a time when businesses were getting rid of their Soviet associations, they kept the name Krasny Oktyabr; it was better known and better for business. And they kept making chocolate bars named Alyonka, for the daughter of the first female cosmonaut, and Slava, or Glory, which evoked Soviet slogans.

Now, Krasny Oktyabr, still rolling with the times, has become what every Russian company seems to want to be: a real estate developer.

The workers, mostly women, have been relocated to another candy factory, one of 14 in the United Confectioners holding company, which now owns the Red October brand. They make the same chocolates, but on new, modern machines far from the city center, part of a drive by the city government to move industry to the outskirts.

Guta-Development, a real estate company that has acquired 75 percent of United Confectioners, is planning to make the Krasny Oktyabr lofts the centerpiece of a luxury construction project on Bolotny Island, the crescent of land that divides the river just south of the Kremlin.

At first, preservationists were appalled. Over the past 15 years, developments for Moscow’s new rich have managed to be simultaneously rococo, shoddy and gargantuan. And the Moscow city government, which has ultimate control over the project, has a less than tasteful track record, as typified by the kitschy statue of Peter the Great that towers over the tip of Bolotny Island.

But Guta, to the cautious relief of people like David Sarkisyan, director of the Shchusev Museum of Architecture, has decided to market the development to the thinking billionaire.

The developers are betting that Russians who are now at home in New York and London — the tiny group that, in Mr. Sarkisyan’s words, is “starting to have some taste” — have learned to value architecture that fits into its historical context and physical surroundings. They believe such buyers will pay millions of dollars to live in an urban, post-industrial streetscape with shops and sidewalks open to the public.

Their marketing presentations carefully explain that lofts are unusual residences without interior walls, pioneered by “the king of Pop Art, Andy Warhol.”

Of course, it was largely penniless artists who reclaimed New York’s SoHo and Chelsea factory lofts as bare-bones residences before the wealthy discovered them. Moscow, trend-obsessed and still dominated by top-down urban planning, is skipping that stage.

But Guta hopes to piggyback on the work of developers who have reclaimed 19th-century factory buildings as cultural sites, drawing Muscovites’ eyes to the stark beauty of old steel and brick. Gazgolder and Vinzavod, a former gas works and wine factory, holds art shows and musical performances. Krasnaya Roza, or Red Rose, is a former silk factory converted into upscale offices.

“This is that rare case where aesthetic and commercial interests don’t collide, but wonderfully coincide,” said Anton Chernov, Guta-Development’s general director, in a written response to questions.

Many details remain under wraps. But the company has vowed that the area will stay open to the public, that three historic buildings, including the factory and a former imperial yacht club on the tip of the island, will be preserved and that the new buildings will harmonize with them and be low enough not to block Kremlin views from other parts of downtown.

Guta invited architects from Moscow and around the world, including world-class talents like Norman Foster and Jean Nouvel, to propose designs for apartments, offices, public cultural spaces and a hotel.

The most avant-garde idea, a Nouvel apartment building that would have echoed the red-brick facade of the factory but had a contorted, cracked shape, like a brick hit with a hammer, was rejected: too adventurous for the Moscow government.

The lofts are to be designed by Jean-Michel Wilmotte. A model apartment, in another brick building that is being preserved, has exposed brick and wooden beams, a sunken sitting area with black leather couches, a granite fireplace and a baby grand piano.

The factory’s Soviet-era sign, with Krasny Oktyabr spelled out in red cursive letters, will remain on top of the building. It adorns the business cards of the developers, who have grasped that the factory’s history, Soviet and otherwise, is a wonderful marketing tool.

But for now, in a place where chocolate not so long ago gushed from ancient green pipes — some machinery dated from the 1920s — the factory floors stand empty.

Ceilings of up to 25 feet and tall rows of windows overlooking the river kept space bright even during a downpour one recent afternoon. Details like iron floor tiles, wrought-iron banisters and brick interiors will remain, waiting for Russians to embrace yet another trend.