Watch Israel’s gazoz master create refreshing fizzy drinks

Benny Briga is famous in Tel Aviv and beyond for his delicious bubbly beverages packed with local herbs, spices and his special fermented fruits.
Benny Briga is the master of the gazoz fermented fruit sparkling beverage. Screenshot by Haim Silberstein

What do you get when you take plain soda water and jazz it up with natural ingredients such as geranium leaves, rosebuds, cinnamon, lavender and fermented pears? Gazoz – a signature beverage invented in Tel Aviv and reinvented for modern times by Benny Briga in the Carmel Market.

A new book by Briga and bestselling cookbook author Adeena Sussman, Gazoz: The Art of Making Magical, Seasonal Sparkling Drinks, tells you more about Benny and his concoctions, including instructions for making gazoz at home.

Executive producer: Jonathan Baruch
Producer/director: Haim Silberstein
Camera: Ari Amit
Editor: Gal Elad