BRIGHTER LATER® 'Saint Helena' Nontraditional Limoncello
While gin has been our primary focus, our curiosity with cold distillation has led us in some unexpected and rewarding directions. Early on, we created a lemon peel distillate that stopped us in our tracks: bright, clean, and unmistakably true to the aroma of freshly expressed lemon oil. It was one of the purest expressions of lemon we’d ever tasted.
As is often the case, necessity often sparks creation. We needed limoncello for our venues and decided to take a less traditional route. A week into the usual steeping process, we drew off a portion of the fresh lemon macerate and cold-distilled it. The remainder continued to steep slowly and gently over the following weeks.
We avoided filtration to preserve full flavour, then carefully blended the cold-distilled and steeped components. The result: a limoncello with both the zesty freshness of lemon straight from the tree and the round, mellow depth of a more traditional maceration.
Drink it in a spritz, a highball, or — as we tend to — straight from the freezer.
Bottled at 29.2% ABV.