DISTILLING 101

Rogue Spirits Rums
Rogue Rum is handcrafted in 567 litre grundies using Hawaiian cane sugar, Champagne yeast, and Free Range Mountain water. Each batch is double distilled in a process that allows lower grade alcohols to be extracted. Any impurities are then removed through a hand charcoal filtering process that delivers a smooth crisp taste that measures 80 proof. The White Rum is mellowed in Oak barrels and the Dark Rum is aged in charcoaled Oak Bourbon barrels from the Jack Daniels Distillery in Tennessee.

Rogue Spirits Gin
Like most gins, Rogue's Spruce Gin begins life as a humble grain neutral spirit, and then undergoes nothing short of a miraculous transformation in a process developed circa 800 AD by a Persian alchemist. Rogue's distillers have further refined the alembic distillation process and are currently producing their Spruce Gin in small, hand-bottled batches.

Rogue's creationaries defined it something like this: the simple spirit is heated to a temperature of 176 degrees Fahrenheit in a 150 gallon Vendome copper pot still; alcohol vapors then rise up through the still column, passing through 11 botanicals on its way, trapping their essence within the alcohol vapors. In a single pass, the copper creature does the job of what would normally be 4, re-condensing the alcohol vapors and ejecting the clear liquid out at about 175 proof. The distiller then brings the Gin down to 90 proof or 45% alcohol by volume in a process known as smithing, whereby free range coastal water is hand-apportioned to each small batch. Finally, the gin is hand-bottled, capped and heat-sealed in a 750ml serigraphed bottle whose artwork commemorates Oregon spruce loggers of the 1800s.