The bottle
Half Shell Vodka, $24.99
The back tale
We’re about to head into April, which is Earth Month. And that had me considering about booze with an earth-minded point of check out. Of program, there are wines designed with biodynamic practices. Or grain-to-glass whiskey.
But here’s one thing else: A vodka which is bottled in…cardboard.
50 percent Shell Vodka, a recently launched spirit created by Distillery 98, a micro distillery found in the Florida Panhandle village of Grayton Seashore, is in fact packaged just like that. The bottle, which has the identical acquainted condition as the classic Bordeaux-design glass wine vessel, will come courtesy of a British company, which marketplaces it by noting that it has a “carbon footprint up to 6 moments lessen than a glass bottle.”
Distillery 98 co-proprietor Harrison Holditch told MarketWatch that the eco-aware dedication does not finish there. The distillery works by using locally sourced corn to make Fifty percent Shell Vodka. But the name of the spirit refers to the Panhandle’s famed oysters — and the vodka is distilled utilizing what is billed as a “one-of-a-type activated coconut carbon and oyster shell filtration system.” Furthermore, as Holditch says, “Our distillery is about 4 miles straight from the beach front.”
Holditch admits that delivery the cardboard bottles from England diminishes the carbon footprint-conserving part fairly. But he stated he has ambitions to manufacture the bottles domestically. And he imagine it’s only a matter of time prior to others hop on the cardboard-bottle bandwagon. “I assume it is the long term of our industry,” he mentioned.
What we assume about it
Perfectly, the packaging is undoubtedly various: It has the come to feel of a cardboard box, but it holds the liquid with no any issues (there is a liner pouch inside the cardboard shell). As for the vodka by itself, it has an appealing flavor profile on the sweet aspect — that is in all probability the corn conversing — with a clean up end.
How to delight in it
There’s no big difference pouring out your vodka from a cardboard or glass bottle, so pour absent. Holditch claims he likes working with the vodka in a martini. But a caveat: Right now, Half Shell is available only in its home condition of Florida, while there are designs to extend outside of that before long.
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