About the drinks menu

This menu has been designed with the aim of making Bocabar as sustainable as possible. It is not perfect and we continue to try and find solutions to help reduce our carbon footprint. We have searched for creative ideas to reduce the amount and type of waste we produce, while still offering the same high quality of product as before.

LOCALLY PRODUCED DRINKS
To reduce our “drinks miles” and carbon footprint, we have sourced many of our drinks from Bristol and the surrounding counties. Key producers include: Cornish Orchards cider, Bristol Beer Factory, Bristol Distilling Co., Bristol Syrup Co., Good Chemistry, Moor Beer, Lost and Grounded, Lovely Drinks, Sharps Brewery, Three Choirs Wine and Westons Cider.

HOUSE SPIRITS
Our house gin is distilled in the heart of the city by the Bristol Distilling Co. It is delivered to us direct in large containers which we then decant into glass bottles. The containers are re-filled by the Bristol Distilling Co when needed and the process begins again. As a result we create zero waste when using our most popular spirits, having also greatly reduced food miles.

PACKAGED WASTE
We offer a pretty decent range of ciders, lagers, and locally-sourced ales on draught so we thought our packaged beers and ciders should offer something different. This section is therefore split into two categories: low/non-alcoholic and gluten-free. We hope this will reduce the volume of cans and glass bottles we need to recycle without eliminating the choice available.

FOOD WASTE
Citric acid occurs naturally in all citrus fruits, balancing out the sweetness of syrups and liqueurs used in cocktail production. We have replaced the lemon and lime juice in our cocktails with a food-grade citric acid solution produced by microbial submerged fermentation. We have thereby reduced the number of citrus fruits we import from overseas and the volume of food waste created by the discarded citrus shells.

V vegetarian • Vg vegan • GF gluten-free