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A Sorghum-Based Spirit, a Homage to the American Heartland.
A change-up for your white rum cocktails. Try the daiquiri or mojito.
Empirical Soka combines distillates of fermented fresh sorghum juice and sorghum syrup. The juice brings springy, green notes of melon, cucumber and green apple, while the syrup adds darker aromas of hay and toasted honey. It smells like fresh-cut grass and drinks like a summer harvest. Slightly funky, wholly new.
Sorghum is one of the most produced cereal crops in the world, yet sorghum spirits are hard to find. We wanted to change that. We sourced juice and syrup from Richard and Brenda Wittgreve of Rolling Meadows in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, and fermented with Thai Rice Chong yeast from White Labs. Inspired by Jamaican rum-making, we reused the leftover wash from the juice to ferment the syrup, then distilled under vacuum to preserve every ester. For us, Soka is about connections: to the land, to the history of sorghum, and to flavor.
