Discover local beverages in Kingston

Check out these locally made, roasted, brewed, and blended beverages from small businesses in and around Kingston.

Carbonated beverages

The County Bounty artisanal soda

County Bounty sodas are made in Napanee, just west of Kingston. These lightly carbonated, lightly sweetened sodas use locally grown fruits and herbs in delightful combinations, like strawberry and basil, sour cherry and mint, and foraged botanicals. Find them in Kingston at Daughter’s General Store, The Everly Restaurant, Improbable Escapes, Juniper Café, Old Farm Fine Foods, The Screening Room, The Silly Yak, and Otter Creek Kitchen.

Mohawk Soda

The Indigenous-owned small company in nearby Deseronto creates delicious sodas using traditional ingredients. Flavours include strawberry sweetgrass, orange maple, and blueberry sweetgrass “sumac-ade.” Find these sodas in Kingston at the Visitor Information Centre.

Two of Kingston’s breweries also make non-alcoholic beverages:
Spearhead Brewing Company makes Akwa, a sparkling hop-infused botanical water. You can also find it at The Screening Room.

Something in the Water Brewing Company offers sparkling hop water in three flavours: lime, berry, and peach. You can also find them at the Visitor Information Centre.

Coffee

Cooke’s Fine Foods

Cooke’s coffee blends can be found in many local restaurants. Some venues – Chez Piggy, the Frontenac Club, and Days on Front – have their own signature Cooke’s coffee blend. You can sample these blends with your restaurant meal or take home a pound of beans or ground coffee from Cooke’s Fine Foods on Brock Street, where it is roasted in-house.

North Roast Coffee Roaster

Kingston’s North Roast offers a variety of fair trade, organic, and micro lot coffee, roasted on site and packaged in 100% compostable bags. They offer free delivery in Kingston and online shipping elsewhere. You can also pick up grinders and other coffee accessories.

County Roasters

From Picton comes County Roasters, a family-run micro coffee roaster that offers organic and ethically sourced coffee beans. In Kingston, you can find their beans at Old Farm Fine Foods and General Brock’s Commissary.

Tea

Cha Cha Tea

Cha Cha Tea offers a wide variety of high-quality looseleaf tea, from traditional black and oolong teas to green and herbal teas to seasonal blends. If you need advice on what kind of tea to get, talk to Kaoru, a certified tea sommelier.

Kebaonish

Kebaonish is an Indigenous- and woman-led coffee and tea company in nearby Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. Kebaonish offers seven tea blends inspired by the Anishinaabe Seven Grandfather Teachings: honesty, love, respect, wisdom, truth, humility, and bravery. In Kingston, enjoy a cup of Kebaonish tea at Pedal Works Café, or pick up a package of tea bags to take home at Cha Cha Tea.

Juniper Cafe

Check out the locally inspired tea blends at both of Juniper Cafe’s locations. They include Breakfast in Kingston, Limestone city chai, and Queen’s rooibos.

Apple cider

Memorial Centre Farmers’ Market

Hall’s Apple Market in Brockville offers its apple cider (in addition to other apple goodies) at the Kingston Memorial Centre Farmers’ Market every Sunday.