Gioielli Di Frutta Soc. Agr. Srl

Producing a purely organic, alcohol-free soft drink by fermenting natural ingredients, but without any alcohol being created in the process, seemed utterly impossible.

One person believed firmly in this idea and refused to give up. Let’s turn the clock back a little. The history of Bionade begins in the 1960s.

Leipold got the idea of creating a nonalcoholic drink produced with the same principles and under the same purity laws used to brew beer:[1] not using corn syrup or other artificial additives and making it by fermentation. The drink would consist only of the natural ingredients malt, water, sugar, and fruit essences.[1] Leipold experimented for eight years, spending €1.5 million of the brewery owner Peter Kowalsky's money.