BEHIND THIS STORY

From behind the bar. Into the bottle.

BORN AT THE BAR

Sonic Tonics started as an experiment. Alex & Charlotte have spent over a decade running Behind This Wall — our basement bar on Mare Street. Built on a simple obsession: better ingredients make for a better whole.

No artificial additives.
No unnecessary sugar.
No shortcuts.

From the house spirits to the syrups made from scratch behind the bar, the philosophy never changed. What started as a music blog in 2012 became a club night, then a terrace pop-up, then a bar, then a record label, then a CBD honey syrup that people kept asking to take home.

Each stage a step toward something else.
Sonic Tonics is the latest step.

WHERE IT BEGAN

During lockdown, with the bar shuttered, the experiments continued. Nootropics, flavour, function. A small run of bottled drinks blending alcohol and CBD – and something clicked.

Not a gimmick.
Not a canned cocktail rehash.
Not a "healthified" placebo with no discernible effect.

Something original. Something intentional.

A new kind of drink was possible – and we were the people to make it.

THE IDEA

At the core of Sonic Tonics is one deceptively simple idea.

Alcohol lifts. CBD rounds.
Together, they find the line.

Cold-pressed CBD — not isolated, not processed — doesn't mute the experience. It rounds it. Brightens it. Opens alcohol out into something more textured, more layered, more considered.

The result isn't less.
It's more precise.

We're not trying to cancel alcohol.
We're trying to tune it.

WHY WE EXIST

Because drinking shouldn't be about more.
It should be about better.

Sonic Tonics is a drink for the first round that shapes your whole night. Made for the modern drinker — curious, intentional, present.

Handmade in Hackney Wick.
Born behind a bar.
Finely tuned.