Icy Soda

The Icy Soda book

Make It Dirty.

75 flirty, non-alcoholic dirty sodas, house syrups and soda-bar parties.

By Nicole Irmo

The drive-thru dirty soda grew up, got a little flirty and came home. A photo-filled guide to building better non-alcoholic sodas in your own kitchen.

Hardcover and Kindle on Amazon. Every drink is non-alcoholic.

Make It Dirty by Nicole Irmo, book cover
75
Dirty soda recipes
30
Found only in the book
10
House syrups
4
Cold foams
6
Soda-bar party plans

What's inside

One drink. One page. One photo.

Laid out so you can read it from across the counter: what you need, how to make it and the one secret that makes it work.

A photo for every drink

Every recipe gets its own page and its own full-color photograph, written for a 24 oz cup with simple scaling for any size.

Behind the bar

Ten house syrups to make from scratch, four cold foams and the rims that finish them, from chili-lime salt to toasted coconut.

Company's coming

Soda-bar party plans with menus, setup lists and timelines, from poolside afternoons to date night for two.

Better-glass basics

The right ice, how to stock your bar cart and how to size every drink, so the first pour tastes like the tenth.

Inside the book: The Original and Coconut Cream Cola recipe pages, each with a full-page photo
Pages 12 and 13, The Classics

Seven chapters

A pour for every mood.

The Classics chapter

11 recipes

The Classics

Fruit & Flirt chapter

13 recipes

Fruit & Flirt

Island Affairs chapter

9 recipes

Island Affairs

Just Desserts chapter

17 recipes

Just Desserts

A Little Heat chapter

10 recipes

A Little Heat

Skinny Dipping chapter

8 recipes

Skinny Dipping

'Tis the Season chapter

7 recipes

'Tis the Season

Plus

Behind the Bar & Company's Coming

Syrups, foams, rims and party plans.

Only in the book

30 recipes you won't find here.

The site has 45 of our favorites. The book adds 30 more, and these are some of the flirtiest.

The Heartbreaker dirty soda

The Heartbreaker

Kiss and Tell dirty soda

Kiss and Tell

Silk Sheets dirty soda

Silk Sheets

After Dark dirty soda

After Dark

Key Lime Tease dirty soda

Key Lime Tease

Midnight Affair dirty soda

Midnight Affair

Make It Dirty cover

Pick your pour.

A perfect gift for soda lovers, hostesses and anyone who has ever said “extra cream, please.” Or start with the free recipes.