Auntie's Soda Builder

Kia ora whānau.

This is my soda counter, set up on a page. You pick a mixer: a fizzy drink or a coffee. You pick one of the seven Jerk Soda flavour drops. Then you decide whether a cream or foam goes on top. The glass draws itself, and the steps and the drop count come with it.

The label says 1 drop for every 150 ml of drink. The builder takes your glass size, works that out, rounds the answer to a whole number of drops and shows you the sum. Two buttons move the count one whole drop down or up, and that is all they do. The bottle also says do not consume undiluted, so the drops go into the drink. The ingredients are Propylene Glycol and Flavours, and the bottle says for food use only.

The top is what changes the name. Put cream or foam on top of a soda and it is a dirty soda. The drop in the glass is what jerks it, so with nothing on top it is a jerked drink. The builder prints which one you have made. A few glasses have a name of their own, and it shows when yours matches one exactly.

Build it in layers, the way you would a layered dessert. The mixer and the drops go in first and the top goes on last. The slider sets the glass size, anywhere from 100 ml to 1000 ml, and the drop count follows.

Each glass also suggests a Carousel lolly to have beside it, with a link to the lolly. Save a glass or like it, and it stays in this browser. Surprise me picks a glass for you if you cannot decide.

All seven drops are on the Flavour Drops collection, and each one has its own page below.

What each drop goes in

• Jerk Soda's Cake drops: the named drink puts them in lemonade.
• Jerk Soda's Caramel drops: the named drinks put them in ginger beer.
• Jerk Soda's Cherry drops: the named drinks put them in cola and lemonade.
• Jerk Soda's Cookie drops: the named drinks put them in ginger beer.
• Jerk Soda's Cream drops: the named drinks put them in cola, orange soda and sarsaparilla, among others.
• Jerk Soda's Custard drops: the named drinks put them in iced latte.
• Jerk Soda's Hazelnut drops: the named drink puts them in a long black.

Arohanui, Auntie Puha