Breakfast in Palermo Gin 0.5L, second batch, limited edition of 200 bottles

Alc.vol.: 42%

Ingredients: organic juniper, organic orange peel, Perú Mayar coffee

Scent and flavor: our new gin is truly different, playful, and exciting. In the aroma, there is orange, a little pine from the juniper, and chocolaty smokiness from coffee. The taste of this fully transparent gin is a fine balance of orange on the tongue and an aftertaste of coffee. Together they build an aroma and taste of Jaffa Cake- a welcome surprise!

As with our first, Monachus Dry Gin, and our second, There Will Be Blood Orange Gin, we were guided by simplicity, in this case with a bit of improvisation and playfulness added to the mix. We wanted to make gin with coffee for quite some time. Last year we met Erika and Matteo from the first Istrian specialty coffee roastery –Bora Nera, who source their coffee from small farmers, women’s cooperatives, and permaculture farming. We used their Perú Mayar coffee from permaculture farming, with chocolate, ripe fruit, honey taste and aroma, and some acidity.

Once distilled, the Peru coffee distillate is strong, smokey, and opulent, reawakening the images of black coffee brewed in grandma’s coffee pot. It needed something playful and fresh to counterbalance the flavors. Inspired by the eclectic Palermo, we remembered the scent and the atmosphere of a morning in the city. You’d start a day with coffee, a brioche, and spremuta, a freshly pressed orange juice in an old-school bar. Thus we added orange, a key part of the Sicilian breakfast, and citrus that grows everywhere on the island, even at the bus stops in the middle of the city. Once more, we used Mandarinet’s wonderful organic oranges from the south of Croatia.

There are no added sugars or artificial aromas in this gin: the natural aroma of freshly peeled and macerated orange and Perú Mayar coffee gives this gin its unique flavor.

For this special edition gin, we decided to stain the labels with real coffee using grandma’s coffee cups. It’s an effect so often seen when drinking coffee in a bar, leaving a stain on the napkin. We also sprinkled the labels with some orange tint to reminisce the organic oranges used in this gin.

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