We can hardly contain our excitement over our upcoming release of our Old Tom Gin. This is our second brand new gin release this summer, and we are eager to share it with you. The official Old Tom release party is August 5th, 2017 from 1-4pm, so mark your calendars and clear your afternoon for a visit.

Did you not get a chance to try our Aronia Gin we released a few weeks ago? No worries, we still have some left, and will be included in the tasting line-up that day. We will have a record amount of products for our guests to taste on August 5th; Green Hat Year Round, Spring/Summer, Navy Strength, Summer Cup, Aronia Gin, Capitoline Vermouths (Dry, White and Rose) and of course the new Old Tom. Also, check out this Washingtonian write-up of our new releases.

Cheers!

We are keeping the momentum of summer going with another debut; our Old Tom Gin. This is a completely new gin for our distillery, changing up our botanical ratios and adding more citrus.

Today is the day!!! It is ARONIA day!

Make sure you do not miss the release of our Aronia Gin. This is a first for us and for DC.

Sloe style gins are readily available in England, but not so common here in the U.S. John, one New Columbia Distillers owners, gets to enjoy many sloe gins that are brought back from his wife’s London work travels, and wanted to share his enjoyment of this style with DC. Sloe gins nearly disappeared in the States mid-century, so we thought it was time to bring them back. Michael, John, Travers, and Ian spent quite a long time working on the recipe, sampling a dozen bottles of Sloe gins to find exactly what they were trying to achieve, from what was missing from one bottle, to what flavor characteristics really jumped out to them in others.

The Aronia berries give this fruit- forward gin cordial a vibrant red hue; a nod to the more traditional sloe style color. The mouth-puckering aronia, or chokeberry, is a sour berry that is typically used in wines or jams, but we chose to highlight this fruit’s tart character to balance the slightly sweetened end result. We couldn’t be happier with the finished product, and we are very excited to bring DC it’s first distilled Sloe rendition gin cordial. We love all things local; we shop local, we support local, we are a local business, so naturally we reached out to nearby farms to see what fruit could be used, and the recipe just fell into place once we found our ideal berry.

We are extremely proud of the finished product and are eager to share it with everyone on July 15th. 1-4 pm. 375 ml bottles will be available for purchase at the Distillery beginning that day, until it’s all gone. See you soon!

Also, we have a cite on Wikipedia under sloe related liqueurs…pretty cool!

We are thrilled to bring a brand new gin to the District. After taking a short break from new gins to focus on our Summer Cup, Rye-Whiskey program and Capitoline Vermouths, we wanted to come back to our gin roots with a whole new twist. Distilled from grain to glass, using local Virginia wheat, we put our spin on a traditional sloe gin by also sourcing locally farmed aronia berries.

The Aronia berries give this fruit- forward gin cordial a vibrant red hue; a nod to the more traditional sloe style color. The mouth-puckering aronia, or chokeberry, is a sour berry that is typically used in wines or jams, but we chose to highlight this fruit’s tart character to balance the slightly sweetened end result. We couldn’t be happier with the finished product, and we are very excited to bring DC it’s first distilled Sloe rendition gin cordial. We love all things local; we shop local, we support local, we are a local business, so naturally we reached out to nearby farms to see what fruit could be used, and the recipe just fell into place once we found our ideal berry.