Branchwater Black Currant Brandy

Branchwater Black Currant Brandy

$115.00

Pre-order item. Expected to land early May 2025. 

Limited! Branchwater Black Currant Brandy is born out of our passion for history and admiration for fellow farmers in the Hudson Valley working to revive crops that once flourished here. These black currants were grown just 10 minutes away from our farm by local legend Greg Quinn, who, in 2003, single-handedly reversed a ban on growing currants in the United States that had been in place since 1911. Black currants have very little sugar, which allows us to put the second reflux helmet on our stills to use. This function was designed and patented by Hans Reisetbauer and we are the only distillery in this country to have this unique feature, which enables us to extract more alcohol, and hence finer aromatics, from the fermented fruit. Even so, we only yield 110 liters of alcohol from 5,000 pounds of black currants, which equates to around 8 ½ pounds of fruit per 375ml bottle. After distillation, the currants are held in stainless steel for a year to fully mature and express the unique aromatics and flavors of this complex fruit.  It is then cut with water from our family well, bringing it from 85% to 41% before bottling.

 

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