Broken Bean Coffee Liqueur
Broken Bean is a family business from the Central Coast of New South Wales - an evolution of Onyx Coffee Spirits. Led by cousins and co-founders, Matt Faulkner and Mitchell Faulkner, the expert roaster and brewer team boasts a decade’s worth of coffee brewing and liquor creation, responsible for more than two million cocktails served in Australia to date. In a ground-breaking cold brew process, Broken Bean Coffee Liqueur starts with a coffee blend of beans from Brazil, Ethiopia and India that are roasted separately before blending, creating a darker and more robust flavour profile. The coffee blend is then brewed into a high-strength cold brew liquid that further increases the richness and mouthfeel. It is then sweetened with Australian sugar and further enhanced by fortification with Australian wheat vodka to lock in flavour. The liquid is then left to rest and rack for 30 days, allowing it to develop to full maturity before packaging.
White Possum Naked Maraschino
Naked Maraschino is an intense cherry liqueur that fuses traditional Italian Maraschino flavours with a smattering of Australian desert peaches. This luxurious liqueur is the result of over two years of experiments and trials. Many cherries were harmed in the process and White Possum make no apologies for their actions. Their final recipe goes something like this. First, they crush a ridiculous number of sour cherries into a paste, then slowly ferment the mixture over many weeks to extract those deep funky cherry flavours. This 'cherry wine' is then distilled in a pot still where we remove the sharp 'heads' and the lousy 'tails' of the distillate. From there, they let it rest and age in a small vat until the flavour mellows a little. Then they add a rich infusion of quandongs, a semi-sweet indigenous ‘peach’ that contributes a distinctly fruity aroma, and a couple of other herbs and roots before letting all the flavours rest further and marry together in harmony. Contains no artificial colours, flavours nor preservatives. All of White Possum's liqueurs, including Naked Maraschino, are bottled in recycled glass spirit bottles where possible. These bottles, harvested from a network of bars, are given a rough massage to strip the labels off, then a hardcore rinse, sanitisation and a polish before being revived with a new liqueur filled life.