Today in hot stock trading action local beverage brewers Jones Soda found their shares being shifted fast and furiously: one million more shares than usual sold today, leaving the Jones Soda stockholders with a per share increase of more than 32 percent.

The Puget Sound Business Journal tells us that normally only about 228,000 shares of Jones trade hands on an average day. Today’s count was 1.26 million.

Maybe it has something to do with their new tea-juice hybrid featuring an amino acid named gamma-aminobutyric (GABA, to friends) which allegedly improves mental focus, balance and clarity.

While it bums me out a little that I never thought to add Jones Soda to my own (currently small and sad) portfolio, with all the depressing news about our local businesses it’s nice to see some good news. Let’s raise a toast to Jones for their happy day. I recommend toasting with vodka and Jones’s blue bubblegum soda.