effervescence

Those familiar with that Mike Leigh film are aware that Poppy’s level of effervescence can border on the uncomfortable.

“They are usually fermented a little more naturally. They have a lighter flavor — almost a little effervescence too,” she explained.

"It just comes from, like, the most infectiously joyful, wild, dramatic place I was in in my life... and so that effervescence has come through on this record," she said.

Raw, it has a crisp bite, with a licorice flavor that is somewhere between anise and the effervescence of a lemon-lime soda: refreshing, cool, neutralizing.

Quan's natural effervescence, however, gave his characters an energy and spirit that defied the expectation that these geeks had to be timid or socially awkward.