Kings County Chocolate Moonshine

Kings County Chocolate Moonshine is an unaged corn whiskey infused with cacao, here in a 200ml bottle.

The base is the distillery's moonshine, an unaged whiskey of organic New York corn with a high proportion of malted barley, double distilled in copper pot stills with very narrow cuts. Cacao husks are then steeped in the spirit, which pulls the colour and the cocoa character across without turning the whiskey into a cream liqueur. Kings County has built a habit of poking at overlooked categories, and flavoured moonshine, usually the province of novelty bottles, is one of them. This is the serious version, made from good grain in Brooklyn.

Dark cocoa and toasted grain on the nose, with the corn sweetness underneath and a clean finish. Drink it cold and neat as a digestif, or use it in an Espresso Martini or a whiskey and cream shortcut. The 200ml bottle is plenty for experimenting.