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GIN
DESCRIPTION
This genever style Gin is distilled from malted rye, and cane spirit then vapor infused with juniper, angelica root, orris root, cardamom, elderflower, ginger root, persimmon, chicory root, and orange peel.
TASTING NOTES
A nice hit of juniper on the front that transitions into subtle earthy notes with a burst of citrus. Finishes with uncompromising notes of malt, rye, and chicory.
Awards
American Craft Spirits Association: Silver, 2021
The Gin is In: Best of the Year, 2020
The Gin is In: Double Gold/5 Stars, 2020
San Francisco World Spirits Competition: Bronze, 2020
New York International Spirits Competition: Bronze, 2020
Recommended Cocktails
GIN & JUICE
1.5 oz Gin
4 oz grapefruit juice
0.25 oz lime juice
3 dashes lavender bitters
NEGRONI
1 oz Gin
1 oz amaro
1 oz rouge
Orange twist garnish
Add all ingredients to a mixing glass, add ice and stir until chilled. Strain over a large ice cube in a rocks glass. Garnish by twisting an orange peel over the glass. Then run the peel along the rim and drop it in the glass.
GIN FIZZ
1.5 oz Gin
1.5 oz Aquafaba (or 1 egg white)
0.75 oz simple syrup
0.5 oz lime juice
3 dashed orange bitters
Club soda
Lime wheel garnish
Add all ingredients to a shaker, dry shake vigorously. Add ice and shake again. Strain into a highball, fill with ice and tip with club soda. Garnish with lime wheel.
RASPBERRY GIMLET
2 oz Gin
0.75 oz raspberry syrup
0.25 oz lime juice
Lime wheel garnish
Add all ingredients into a shaker, shake vigorously, strain into a coupe glass, garnish with a lime wheel
SMOKED CORN WHISKEY
DESCRIPTION
TASTING NOTES
Mezcal and scotch like notes, butter, sweet corn, and then a packed punch of smoke, campfire and wood on the finish
Recommended Cocktails
JALAPENO MARGARITA
1.5 oz Smoked Corn Whiskey
1 muddled jalapeño slice
1 oz orange liqueur
1 oz lime juice
0.5 oz simple syrup
Serve over ice. Garnish with salt rim, lime and jalapeño.
WHISKEY SOUR
2 oz Smoked Corn Whiskey
1.5 oz aquafaba (or 1 egg white)
0.75 oz lemon juice
0.75 oz simple syrup
Lemon and/or cherry garnish
Chill a coupe glass. To a shaker, add all ingredients and dry shake vigorously. Add ice and shake again. Double strain into chilled coupe. Garnish.
PENICILLIN
1.5 oz Smoked Corn Whiskey
3-4 ginger slices
1 oz lemon juice
.5 oz honey simple syrup
Ancient bitters float
Swedish fish garnish
Add ginger and honey to a shaker, muddle, Add remaining ingredients, fill with ice and shake vigorously, Strain into a rocks glass filled with fresh ice, Float ancient bitters on top, Garnish with Swedish fish.
PALOMA
.75 oz Smoked Corn Whiskey
.75 oz Orange Liqueur
.5 oz grapefruit oleo
2 oz grapefruit juice
Ginger beer
Lime-green chili-salt rim & lime wedge garnish
Rim and garnish chilled glass, Pour oleo, juice and spirits in glass, Fill with ice, Top with ginger beer
SMOKED BOURBON
DESCRIPTION
We’ve got your bourbon for scotch lovers right here! A blend of smoked corn (yep, it’s smokey!) and malted barley all grown and processed here in Maryland. Aged in unused American White Oak sourced from our neighbors right down the road in West Virginia.
TASTING NOTES
Scotch-like notes, wood, caramel, and then a hit of smoke, campfire and oak on the finish.
Recommended Cocktails
OLD FASHIONED
1.5 oz Smoked Bourbon
Orange Bitters
Sugar Cube
Cherry
Orange Wheel
In a rocks glass, soak sugar cube with orange bitters, muddle. Add Smoked Bourbon and large ice cube. Garnish with orange wheel and cherry on a pick.
FIG OLD FASHIONED
1.5 oz Smoked Bourbon
.25 oz fig syrup
.25 oz water
3 dashes bitters
Fig slice and sage garnish
Stir all ingredients in a mixing glass with ice, strain into a rocks glass, top with an ice cube and garnish fig slice and sage
RUSTY NAIL
1.5 oz Smoked Bourbon
.75 oz Drambuie
Lemon wheel garnish
Stir all ingredients into a mixing glass with ice, strain into a rocks glass, top with an ice cube, garnish with a lemon peel
WHISKEY SOUR
2 oz Smoked Bourbon
.5 oz simple syrup
3 dashes orange bitters
Aquafaba (or egg white)
Dry shake egg white or aquafaba, add remaining ingredients and shake with ice, strain into a martini or coupe glass.
ABSINTHE NOUVELLE
DESCRIPTION
This is Maryland’s first absinthe! Distilled with anise, fennel, grand wormwood, star anise, chrysanthemum and mace. Naturally colored with petite wormwood, lemon balm, hyssop, and bergamot orange.
TASTING NOTES
A punch of rich licorice, complex herbal notes, and floral fairy dust.
Awards
American Craft Spirits Association: Silver, 2021
New York International Spirits Competition, Gold, 2020
New York International Spirits Competition, Absinthe Distillery of the Year, 2020
San Francisco World Spirits Competition: Silver, 2020
American Craft Spirits Association: Bronze, Specialty Spirits, 2020
Recommended Cocktails
ABSINTHE FRAPPE
1 oz Absinthe Nouvelle
6-8 mint leaves
simple syrup
soda water
lemon wedge
Muddle mint, lemon wedge and simple syrup in shaker, add ice and absinthe, shake. Strain over a glass with crushed ice, top with soda water, garnish with lemon wedge and mint leaves.
SAZERAC
2 oz Caraway Rye
Sprit of Absinthe Nouvelle
1 sugar cube
3 dashes aromatic bitters
3 dashes lavender bitters
Lemon peel garnish
Spritz a rocks glass with absinthe. In a mixing glass, soak a sugar cube with aromatic and lavender bitters, muddle. Add Caraway Rye and ice, stir. Strain into prepared rocks glass. Garnish by expressing a lemon peel over the glass and rubbing it along the rim. Discard lemon peel.
DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON
1.5 oz Absinthe Nouvelle
4.5 oz champagne
Pour the absinthe into a coupe glass. Top with the champagne.
CORPSE REVIVER
1 oz Genever Inspired Gin
.25 oz Absinthe Nouvelle
.25 oz Lemon juice
.5 oz Simple syrup
3 dashes of lavender bitters
Pour all ingredients into a shaker, shake vigorously, strain into a rocks glass, top with ice and garnish with a lemon wheel.
ABSINTHE LOUCHE
1 oz Absinthe Nouvelle
3 oz ice water
Sugar cube (optional)
Pour absinthe in goblet. If you choose to add sugar, place a slotted spoon over the rim of your goblet, place a sugar cube on the spoon. Slowly pour water over sugar cube until it dissolves. Stir.