Blackberry Lavender Soda
Fresh blackberries simmered in culinary lavender make an aromatic syrup for this blackberry lavender soda. The heavenly combination of fruity and floral flavors captures summertime in an ice-cold drink. It's quick and easy to make at home and extra syrup can be stored in the fridge for up to a week!
If you love berries as much as we do, also try our chocolate blackberry crumble or triple berry paleo banana bread with lemon glaze.

This recipe was originally published in 2012. We've updated the post with some new photos and more information, but we've left the delicious recipe exactly the same.
There's nothing like a cold drink on a hot day! This refreshing, ice-cold blackberry lavender soda is everything you never knew you needed. With fresh, ripe blackberries and dried lavender, it's lightly botanical and perfectly sweet.
There's no alcohol in this mocktail, making it sinless for sipping any time of day. It's easy to make the syrup ahead of time so that all you have to do is pour some into a glass and top it with soda when the time comes. It's versatile too; try blueberries or elderberries for a different but equally delicious take.
Blackberry lavender soda ingredients
You'll need just a few ingredients to make this refreshing blackberry lavender soda:
- Blackberries – fresh, ripe blackberries are oh-so-sweet.
- Water – is used to make the syrup.
- Sugar – adds sweetness to the syrup.
- Dried lavender flowers – for their lovely floral flavor.
- Soda water – top it off with some sparkle.
We love making this fruity drink in summer when blackberry season is in full swing. Watch for them to appear growing wildly along trails, at farmer's markets, or stocked in the produce section at your grocery store. If blackberries aren't available in your local area, try blueberries or elderberries!

How to make blackberry lavender soda
This mild-tasting soda has just a hint of lavender in the background; it is very subtle. The syrup is not very sweet so if you like sweeter soda, add more sugar. It's so easy to make at home in just a few simple steps:
- Grab your pot and combine the blackberries, water, sugar, and lavender. Heat it so the sugar dissolves.
- Once the sugar dissolves, reduce the heat to a slow simmer while you break up the berries with the back of a spoon.
- Now, let it cool. Strain it using the fine-mesh sieve to remove the blackberry seeds. At this point you can store it in an air-tight container or jar in the fridge for at least a week.
- When you're ready to serve it, add the blackberry lavender syrup to a glass and top it with plain soda.
Note: this makes 1 cup of blackberry lavender syrup. We like to use ¼ cup of syrup with 1 cup of soda water.
Full recipe instructions are in the recipe card below.
How to serve blackberry lavender soda
This blackberry mocktail is the most refreshing, non-alcoholic drink for every occasion. You can make the syrup ahead of time so it's easy to mix up drinks in the moment – just make sure to save a few blackberries for garnish! It's visually pretty to serve and we love sipping it at:
- Wedding showers
- Baby showers
- Birthday parties (kids and teens love it, too!)
- Potlucks
- Dinner parties
- On a sunny patio
- Backyard BBQ's
- At a picnic
- Pizza night
We also love the syrup drizzled over vanilla ice cream or our heavenly lavender lemon angel food cake.
Lavender blackberry soda: FAQS
Yes! Try making the syrup with blueberries for a different but delicious spin.
Yes, frozen berries work great!
Fresh lavender flowers can work in a pinch but culinary lavender is ideal as it uses just the bud which has lovely floral notes.

Other popular refreshing drinks
- Orange Creamsicle Smoothie
- Winter Detox Orange Turmeric Smoothie
- Green Breakfast Smoothie
- Mango Smoothie

Blackberry Lavender Soda
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Ingredients
- 2 cups blackberries
- 1 cup water
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon dried lavender flowers
Instructions
- In a medium pot, combine the blackberries, water, sugar, and lavender. Bring to a boil over high heat, and stir to dissolve the sugar.2 cups blackberries, 1 cup water, ½ cup granulated sugar, 1 teaspoon dried lavender flowers
- Reduce the heat to medium or medium-low and simmer, uncovered, for 5 minutes. Mash the berries with a spoon then continue to simmer for another 5 minutes.
- Remove the pot from the heat and let the syrup cool slightly. Use a fine-mesh sieve to strain the berries and lavender from the syrup, making sure to press the berries against the strainer to extract as much liquid as possible. Discard the blueberries and lavender. Refrigerate the syrup in a covered container for up to 5 days.
- Add ¼ cup of the blackberry lavender syrup to a glass with ice then add 1 cup of plain soda water.
Hi Kristen,
Looks Delicious. Thanks for sharing this. I get more ideas from it. I want to try this.
Thank you so much!
My husband recently rigged up a DIY soda stream which is awesome so I have been wanting to find some great recipes to try with it. This was great!
A DIY soda stream? Wow, you’re husband is really crafty! Now you’ve got me thinking that’s what I should do 🙂
This soda was so delicious! My fiancé and I love trying new interesting soda flavors and this was right up our alley!
Beautiful! I want that book.
Hi Angela,
I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you 🙂
I definitely think store bought soda is too sweet, too. It’d be nice to experiment with my own flavors.
This blackberry soda turned out perfectly. Not too sweet at all!
Hi Melody,
It was actually really fun to make my own!
I’m not much of a soda fan either.
Gorgeous photos Kristen!!! 🙂
Thanks, Rachael!
I made club soda with lemon and mulled berries the other day and would love more ideas 🙂
Hi Andrea,
That sounds delicious! Good luck in the contest 🙂
This was so amazingly refreshing! I am going to make this again for Thanksgiving instead of our normal sparkling cider (which fills me up more than the turkey HAHA). I bet it is a super nerve-calming drink too
Hi Sunshine,
I think this would be so perfect with Thanksgiving dinner!
I love homemade soda! (although I think most of the fun is making your own syrups.)
It was really great to make the syrup. I ended up using the leftovers in a sauce for pork tenderloin. It was delicious 🙂
I’m also a big proponent of the “why buy it if I can make it myself, and better” philosophy. 🙂
It always surprises me how easy it is to make things from scratch. There really isn’t much of a difference in time and the taste is so much better!
I started making my own sodas after taking a workshop at Rooted Nutrition. I started with kombucha and ginger beers. Wild ferments take a week or two and after the fruit fly pandemic in my house it seemed simpler to make my own tea ‘sodas’. I’ve experimented with green tea/mint, ginger/roiboos, sage/honey/mint/lemon, rosemary/lime. I like that we can make ‘sodas’ with herbs and teas and benefit from the medicinal qualities of the teas and plants and roots (ie. did you know Ginger tea with brown sugar is a traditional chinese remedy for menstrual cramps?). I got a chart from my kitchen herbalism class listing certain herb benefits-it was a printout from Rebecca Woods book: the new encyclopedia of whole foods(another one I’d love to get!). I tried some SIP! sodas- and my favorite is the lavender but I wanted to figure out how to make it at home. Thank you for your recipe. I’ve been really drawn to the floral sodas- hibiscus, lavender, calendula. I look forward to trying this out! Thanks for posting!
Hi Anja,
The sage, honey, mint and lemon soda you made sounds fantastic!
I thought I was the only one that didn’t like to drink soda. Store bought soda is too sweet for me. I would rather make it myself so I can control how sweetness is in it. I bought the Soda Stream so I am always looking for creative recipes to try. Will make this one again!
Was so delicious! I can’t wait to make it again!
just the other day, after trying the Q Cola from whole foods (all natural, sweetened with agave) i was saying i really need to try using the sodastream machine i got for christmas last year – and then i come across this wonderful recipe. Will make it again!