Spruce Shoot Spirit

Spruce Shoot Spirit – Faude feine Brände

The Faude feine Brände Spruce Shoot Spirit is a truly unusual spirit from the distillery at the Kaiserstuhl. Master distiller Florian captures the absolute concentration of young spruce shoots as a spirit, full of aroma in the glass. Only the best, high-quality ingredients are processed into delightful spirits in his distillery in Bötzingen, because the experienced distiller is sure of one thing: Only if you put good in, can good come out. It is no coincidence that his spirits have won national and international awards. The Spruce Shoot Spirit shows how experimental Florian Faude is. With this courage, classics are created that surprise, and surprises that become classics: recognizable and unexpected. Especially with these exotic spirits, Florian has managed, with the help of his brother who made good contacts in Berlin, to enter high-end gastronomy and trendy bars.

The Faude feine Brände Spruce Shoot Spirit has a unique aroma; it smells like a walk through a native coniferous forest. On the nose, it is intense and powerful, without being overwhelming. It is fresh-spicy, with resinous notes of essential spruce shoot oil, with hints of lemon and an aromatic, long-lasting finish. A special gift for all spruce lovers and Black Forest fans. This spirit not only accompanies you on the rocks through the summer or as a long drink with tonic, but is also a creative ingredient for exciting cocktails.

Faude Spruce Shoot Spirit – from the Black Forest

The Faude feine Brände Spruce Shoot Spirit may cause surprise at first glance. A distillate from spruce shoots initially raises questions, but all are answered by the first sniff and turn into enthusiasm with the first sip. Clearly, even with the Spruce Shoot Spirit, distiller Florian has come up with something extraordinary. For his spirit, he uses young spruce shoots, also known as May tips, hand-picked in the Black Forest in early summer.

Spirit instead of Brandy – Florian explains it

A spirit made from spruce shoots is not a brandy, but a spirit. "A spirit," Florian explains to us, "opens up possibilities for the distiller to do known things differently and to play with the unknown." Unlike brandy, Florian therefore uses ingredients that cannot be mashed and fermented due to their low sugar content, such as the spruce shoots from Bad Peterstal. "Here we take a piece of nature," Florian continues, "soak it in the purest grain alcohol so that it can release its full aroma into the alcohol, and distill the 'flirt' after a short time. This way, only clear notes get into the distillate. What we save in time, we add in fruits or, as here, in botanicals." With the good, soft water of the Black Forest, the spirit is then reduced to drinking strength (42% vol. alcohol), filled into classic 500ml bottles without the addition of sugar or coloring agents and without cold filtration. "The result: a highly harmonious paradox. Intensely fresh, immediately present and yet – multifaceted and light-footed."