What began as a Bar Week Masterclass for rum again in 2018, grew to become an obsession for large, thick and juicy flavour. That is an Aussie rum that gives a long-lasting and playful journey throughout the palette.
Outcask is a pure single rum that has the aroma of crisp inexperienced apple, gentle banana, pineapple and candied brown sugar. The palate follows by way of with crème brulee, sultana, honey and baked items. The end is clear, clean and buttery.
Outcask is a pure single rum that has the aroma of crisp inexperienced apple, gentle banana, pineapple and candied brown sugar. The palate follows by way of with crème brulee, sultana, honey and baked items. The end is clear, clean and buttery.
Karu sources their molasses from northern NSW. The style, texture and aroma of this uncooked materials might immediately transport you to a wonderland of European confectionery. It’s sticky, candy and freakin’ scrumptious.
With lovely simplicity, yeast and water are mixed with the molasses and fermented for 2 weeks earlier than being distilled in a Tasmanian-made copper pot nonetheless named Calcifer. This fashion nonetheless lends to extra thick and chewy caramel flavours.
The brand new-make spirit is aged in Australian Whiskey barrels, emulating an ageing course of that’s conventional, but performed in an all-Australian means. With love, they’re all given rum or barrel puns as names. Stavid Attinborough and Charmander are two of our favourites.
For consistency of flavour, Karu Distillery decants its barrels in a solera-style vatting system. This ensures that Outcask Rum’s flavour traits are married collectively, with every batch sharing flavour DNA from the unique. When this attractive rum from The Devils Wilderness finds its means into your cocktail menu, trust that the flavour might be constant from batch to batch.
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Q+A with Model founders Nick & Ally Ayres
We’re confused… Aren’t you guys a gin model?
We definitely make gin and have had the perfect time during the last 4 years with Affinity Gin, our Aussie Modern and Lightning Gin, our Navy Power providing. We’ve earned over seventy awards for gin, together with Double Gold at San Fran and the Trophy on the IWSC 2021.
We have now gin, however Karu Distillery just isn’t a gin model. We’re a distillery that wishes to be identified for a number of choices throughout the spirit genres, not only a single class. This is the reason our most up-to-date releases have been Morita Chipotle Vodka and Outcask Rum, as we needed to indicate the world that we’re about nice spirits and never solely gin, from very early in our story.
Chipotle Vodka?
It appears like a celebration and tastes like one! Morita celebrates the perfect flavours of Mexican cooking, which is a delicacies that we’re obsessive about. We use gin distillation methodology to create Morita Chipotle Vodka. Like our gin, we use our plate column nonetheless and vapour infuse recent and dry substances into Australian wheat spirit after which reduce it down with rainwater that we acquire from our property in The Satan’s Wilderness (simply an hour out from Sydney).
We’re typically requested if it’s spicy. We deseed the 2 varieties (Mecco & Morita) that we import from Mexico, in order that even individuals who go crimson within the face from mayonnaise can provide this a go. If sipping, you get a small quantity of vapour warmth up entrance, which easily transitions into extra smoky, savoury and candy notes. So as to add flavour, we steadiness the chipotle with coriander seeds, inexperienced capsicum, lime and agave syrup.
If you wish to add warmth to cocktails utilizing Morita Chipotle Vodka, we retain the spent botanicals (see it’s like a gin) and provide them to bars. This may be an effective way so as to add extra punch to a Morita Bloody Mary.
For cocktails, Morita has these smoky, savoury and candy notes to play with. You may simply work Morita into traditional tequila and vodka drinks. We’re excited to see what mixologists give you for this recent spirit.
That’s such a novel take. What else do you do in a different way?
We consider in capturing when a spirit ‘pops’ with flavour. When it’s time to decide on the place we take the “hearts” reduce (the barrel grade new make spirit) there’s a second that may’t be missed. To point out the employees, I deliver them over to the nonetheless at a protected level earlier than the pop and actively get them to style the stream of spirit and inform them what I’m searching for.
What I search for is one thing that’s past clear, candy and of first rate high quality. We wish the perfect. I get employees to style a number of instances till it will get to ‘the flavour pop’ which is the place it goes from “yeah, that’s tasting good” to “FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFar out that’s tasty, that’s it, the flavour popped”. We take a decrease yield from our spirit runs, in order that we bottle a greater spirit.
What’s subsequent?
We have now all the time had the purpose of being a industrial model with trusted merchandise with a great popularity for high quality. Once we create a product, it turns into a staple in our core vary. We don’t have sixteen gins, seven rums, 9 whiskies, twenty liqueurs and 5 vodkas on the way in which. Time is taken to ensure that what we add, represents us wholeheartedly.
Once we launch an aged spirit it’s not our analysis and growth, it’s the precise completed product. All this stated, prepare for just a few alternate cask expressions of Outcask Rum in 2023 and who is aware of, perhaps one thing just a little candy.
