Prosper
Veelgestelde vragen
A house of live, fermented beverages — kombucha and ginger beer — made at the historic Prosper spring of Ginoles-les-Bains, in the French Pyrenees. Four drinks at launch, each named for its character. Slow-fermented, real ingredients, brewed with water from a spring that has run since 1871. Made for the table, not the gym. Drink to Prosper.
At Ginoles-les-Bains, a thermal estate in the Aude, in the foothills of the Pyrenees. The water comes from the on-site Prosper spring — 16 litres a second, a steady 24 °C — which fed a fashionable spa resort for sixty years before the estate fell quiet. We brew there now. The spring never stopped.
Four distinct profiles. Rouge Doré (kombucha): ruby-gold, tart hibiscus, a lift of lemon. Mojito (kombucha): dry, fresh mint, lime, a clean finish. Vibration Citron (ginger beer): sharp, citrus-forward, dry and adult. Cœur Passion (ginger beer): rounder, tropical passion and mango. All lightly sparkling, none sweet.
Prosper is non-alcoholic. Like all live ferments it carries a trace of naturally occurring alcohol, well below the level at which a drink is considered alcoholic — we measure every batch. It's made for anyone who wants something real to drink that isn't wine, beer, or sugary soda.
Two of the four are: Rouge Doré and Mojito are kombuchas (fermented sweet tea). The other two — Vibration Citron and Cœur Passion — are ginger beers, fermented with a live ginger culture. Two fermentation families, one spring, four characters.
It belongs at the table. The drier ginger beers cut through rich, fatty food — charcuterie, fried things, aged cheese. The kombuchas suit lighter plates: raw seafood, salads, summer vegetables. Generally: wherever you'd reach for a glass of natural wine or a good aperitif, Prosper fits the same moment.
Order here, online. We deliver in scheduled drops to a handful of cities — Antwerp, Carcassonne, Toulouse, Narbonne to start — and your order ships on your city's next drop date, shown at checkout. Minimum order is 12 bottles; mix the four however you like.
Because we deliver by hand, in seasonal runs, rather than shipping single bottles on demand. A case of twelve is the unit that makes a real delivery worth the road. Mix it freely — all four, or all of your favourite.
Prosper is made by Positiv'eau SASU, at the Ginoles-les-Bains estate in the Aude, France. It's the drinkable front of a larger project about bringing dormant places back to life — but you don't need to know any of that to enjoy the bottle.
A thermal spring catchment built in 1871 by the engineer Prosper Lassave, who first revived the estate around it. It flows at 16 litres a second at 24 °C and was analysed by the Buisson-Bertrand institute in 1907. It ran for a century after the resort closed, with no one left to drink it. Prosper is what it was waiting for.
A doorway. Every bottle opens to more than a label can hold — the batch it came from, the spring it's drawn from, and, for the curious, further still. Scan it and follow the water.