The bottle
Half Shell Vodka, $24.99
The again story
We’re about to move into April, which is Earth Month. And that had me serious about booze with an earth-minded viewpoint. In fact, there are wines made with biodynamic practices. Or grain-to-glass whiskey.
However right here’s one thing else: A vodka that’s bottled in…cardboard.
Half Shell Vodka, a newly launched spirit made by Distillery 98, a micro distillery positioned within the Florida Panhandle village of Grayton Seashore, is certainly packaged similar to that. The bottle, which has the identical acquainted form as the normal Bordeaux-style glass wine vessel, comes courtesy of a British producer, which markets it by noting that it has a “carbon footprint as much as six instances decrease than a glass bottle.”
Distillery 98 co-owner Harrison Holditch advised MarketWatch that the eco-conscious dedication doesn’t finish there. The distillery makes use of regionally sourced corn to make Half Shell Vodka. However the title of the spirit refers back to the Panhandle’s famed oysters — and the vodka is distilled utilizing what’s billed as a “one-of-a-kind activated coconut carbon and oyster shell filtration system.” Plus, as Holditch says, “Our distillery is about 4 miles straight from the seaside.”
Holditch admits that delivery the cardboard bottles from England diminishes the carbon footprint-saving side considerably. However he stated he has ambitions to fabricate the bottles regionally. And he imagine it’s solely a matter of time earlier than others hop on the cardboard-bottle bandwagon. “I feel it’s the way forward for our trade,” he stated.
What we give it some thought
Properly, the packaging is actually completely different: It has the texture of a cardboard field, however it holds the liquid with none points (there’s a liner pouch contained in the cardboard shell). As for the vodka itself, it has an interesting taste profile on the candy aspect — that’s most likely the corn speaking — with a clear end.
get pleasure from it
There’s no distinction pouring out your vodka from a cardboard or glass bottle, so pour away. Holditch says he likes utilizing the vodka in a martini. However a caveat: Proper now, Half Shell is out there solely in its residence state of Florida, although there are plans to develop past that quickly.
