Genever 'Old Style'

• Genever distilled at Hooghoudt Distillery in the northern Netherlands, designed to reflect the category’s style of the 17^th and 18^th centuries; lighter in body that that of the 16^th century
• Distilled on a copper pot still.
• Botanicals include juniper berry, hops, gentian root, chamomile, and blessed thistle (bittering agent used as a digestive aid since the Middle Ages)
• Blend of 78% neutral grain spirit (distilled from wheat) and 22% malt spirit (distilled from equal parts wheat, rye, and corn). A portion of the malt spirit has been aged 17 years in ex-Oloroso sherry casks.
• A breakfast-nook nose of cooked, steel-cut oats, clover honey, dried apricots, and sea salt carries to the palate, sharpening slightly with notes of bitter greens and a finish of fresh ginger
• 40% ABV

This compellingly structured spirit offers the perfect bridge between the historic genever style and leaner botanical distillates.  

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