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A sophisticated private jet on a runway with Queenstown’s snow-capped mountain ranges and alpine lake in the background

The founder

About Dragan

A pilot, a host, and a man who could not buy the juice he wanted to drink.

Dragan in the cockpit during a long-haul flight

Chapter One

The Pilot

Dragan Petrovic spent his career in aviation, where precision is not a preference — it is the job.

Thousands of hours above the clouds taught him checklists, discipline, and a habit of never accepting "close enough" in anything he is responsible for.

That standard is why every ElixirBurst bottle has a short ingredient list and nothing to hide behind.

In the cockpit, you do not improvise the fundamentals.
Dragan walking rows of aronia bushes at harvest

Chapter Two

A Love of People

Flying is really a people business. Dragan spent decades among crews and passengers from every corner of the world.

He learned that hospitality is a form of care — that what you hand someone should be worthy of them.

Ripe aronia berries clustered on the branch

Chapter Three

A Passion for Health

Irregular schedules and time zones make health a deliberate practice rather than an accident.

Searching for something genuinely clean, Dragan came back to a berry he had grown up around in the Balkans: aronia.

Nothing on American shelves matched what he remembered — so he set out to bring the real thing over.

Freshly harvested aronia berries laid out after picking

Chapter Four

Queenstown, New Zealand

Of everywhere he has landed, Queenstown is his favorite place on earth.

Cold, clear air, mountains straight out of the water, and a kind of clarity that is hard to describe and easy to feel.

It became the standard for the brand: nothing cloudy, nothing added, nothing between you and the source.

That air is what a product should feel like.
Glass bottles in natural morning light

Chapter Five

A Commitment to Sustainability

Seeing the planet from 35,000 feet for a living changes how you think about what you leave behind.

Glass instead of plastic. Organic farming instead of synthetic inputs. Fewer, better decisions.

A finished bottle of ElixirBurst aronia juice

Chapter Six

Why He Created ElixirBurst

ElixirBurst exists because Dragan could not buy the juice he wanted to drink.

Straight pressed from organic berries. No additives, no preservatives, nothing artificial. Bottled in glass.

One bottle, one promise: exactly what the label says, and nothing else.

Taste What He Built