CA - Spirits Portfolio

BRANDY FRUIT & EAU DE VIE

then re-distilled and re-infused with more buds. Finally, it is strained and bottled. The green color and complex fresh flavor are from the Douglas Fir buds. No artificial colors or flavors are added. Clear Creek Framboise Raspberry Eau de Vie 80PF / 375ML Very aromatic and very difficult to make. It takes up to 80 pounds of raspberries to make one small bottle of Framboise. Fermentation of fresh whole raspberries is very tricky and some years there’s lots of it and other years there isn’t any at all. Limited availability.

CLEAR CREEK DISTILLERY USA, OREGON Founded over 30 years ago by Steve McCarthy, inspired by the great fruit brandies of Alsace. Produced the same way to this day, from whole fruit distillation on a single pass through 60-gallon pot still. There is no purer expression of the remarkable fruits of the Hood River Valley. Clear (unaged) Fruit Brandies These fruit brandies are traditionally un-aged to maintain the wonderful intensity of the fruit. The heart of Clear Creek’s product line is our fruit brandies, which are all made according to old world techniques Considered one of the best eau de vies in the world. It takes 30 pounds of pears to make a bottle. No color, flavoring or sugar in this landmark pear brandy made in Oregon. Clear Creek Pear in Bottle 80PF / 750ML The pear actually grows inside of the bottle in their orchards, and then filled with their pear eau de vie. This practice of growing pears in the bottle is traditional in Alsace where pear brandy has been made for hundreds of years. Pear-in-the-bottle is highly labor intensive, requiring weeks of work putting the bottles on the trees in late May when the small pear will still fit in the neck of the bottle, tending them all summer, and picking them in late August. Clear Creek Blue Plum Brandy (Slivovitz) 80PF / 375ML / 700ML / 750ML Made much as it has been made in Europe for centuries, but the result is smoother, more aromatic, and more sophisticated than any European Blue Plum Brandy. Makes a great sorbet. Try it in an Old Fashioned! Kosher. Clear Creek Cherry Brandy (Kirsch) 80PF / 60ML / 375ML / 700ML Considered the top domestically produced cherry brandy. Fresh Oregon and Washington sweet cherries are crushed, fermented, and distilled into clear, powerful Kirschwasser (Cherry Schnapps) in the traditional German fashion. The flavor and great vanilla/almond “nose” come only from the cherries, as does the alcohol. Kosher. Clear Creek Douglas Fir Brandy 80PF / 375ML This eau de vie is made from an infusion of the springtime buds of Douglas Fir picked by hand into clear brandy which is Gold Bartender Spirits Awards ‘21 Clear Creek Pear Brandy 80PF / 60ML / 375ML / 700ML

Barrel Aged Brandies Many of our fruit brandies do not benefit from the barrel aging, so

we leave them water clear and unchanged Clear Creek Apple Brandy 2YO 80PF / 375ML / 700ML

An eau de vie made from local Golden Delicious apples. Long fermentation time produces a complex cider which is distilled in an alembic brandy still and then aged in French oak for two years. This brandy shows a spicy character on the palate with lots of natural apple aromas. Great for apple brandy cocktails like a Jack Rose. Clear Creek Apple Brandy 8YO 80PF / 375ML / 700ML Following the customs of the Calvados makers of Normandy, the high-proof apple spirit is aged in old Cognac barrels, made of Limousin oak, for at least eight years. The result is a beautiful amber brandy, with a remarkable amount of apple in the nose, but with the sophistication and complexity gained from all those years in oak. Clear Creek American Pot Still Brandy 85PF / 750ML Made in a style reminiscent of Armagnac, the American Pot Still Brandy is single-distilled from the wonderful wines of the Pacific Northwest. Age ranges from 2 to 9 years in French Limousin oak barrels, this brandy is much less austere than many of its French cousins, and has lively, fresh, fruity character. Clear Creek White Label Apple Brandy - 2 Year 80PF / 750ML This is the same as the eau de vie de pomme, but aged only two years in Limousin oak. This is the one you use to make fruitcake, to deglaze a pan-fried steak, for the recipe that calls for Calvados, in some dandy apple brandy cocktails and wherever “applejack” is called for.

POLI DISTILLERIE ITALY, BASSANO Jacopo Poli is known to be one of the top distillers in the world, it just so happens that the spirit he makes most is grappa. They sit at the foot of the Dolemite mountains, and just over those hills sits the areas of Germany and Alsace most known for making fruit eau de vies.These fruit brandies are a true expression of his distilling genius. Poli Distillerie Ciliegie Cherry Brandy 80PF / 750ML Raw material: white Durona cherries of Marostica (Veneto). Distillation: artisanal, in small lots, with a discontinuous bain-marie

OLD DELICIOUS USA, OREGON Old Delicious Double Barrel Apple Brandy 85PF / 750ML

A revival of an old Hood River Distillers small batch recipe, Old Delicious Double Bourbon Barreled Apple Brandy begins as Pacific Northwest apples, which are crushed, fermented and distilled according to Old World methods at Clear Creek Distillery. The Apple Brandy is then twice rested in first fill Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey barrels.

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