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Koval Distillery Spirits Tasting Event
Meet your neighbors - the first boutique distillers in Chicago!
Thursday, June 25, 2009
7:30 to 9:30pm
$15 per person
Join us upstairs for a fun night featuring a full lineup of organically distilled vodka, eaux de vie, liqueurs and grain spirits - including the first tastes of four new spirits!
Robert and Sonat Birnecker, of Koval Distillery, will present their line up of craft-distilled spirits, created just four blocks from In Fine Spirits!
This event will be a great tour of the craft spirits created in the tradition and using the techniques of Robert's grandfather in Austria: small batch spirits created completely in-house, from the mashing to the bottling.
Call us to RSVP for this special tasting event, or purchase tickets online soon!
Koval Spirits
- Organic Vodka | distilled from rye
- Organic Pear Brandy
- NEW! Bierbrand | spirits distilled from grain & hops
- Organic Rye Chicago | grain spirits distilled from rye
- Organic Midwest Wheat | grain spirits distilled from wheat
- NEW! Organic American Oat | grain spirits distilled from oat
- NEW! Organic Levant Spelt | grain spirits distilled from spelt
- Organic Rose Hip Liqueur
- NEW! Organic Chrysanthemum Honey Liqueur
- Organic Ginger Liqueur
After the tasting, join us downstairs for our inaugural weekly Eat Local/Drink Local night. On Thursdays, Chef Marianne Sundquist creates special menu items using ingredients from the Andersonville Farmer's Market, and we will feature cocktails with spirits from Koval Distillery and craft beer from Metropolitan Brewing.
About the Distillers
Sonat Birnecker is a Chicago native who spent over a decade living in the most exciting cities of Europe only to confirm that there is no place like the "Paris of the Prairie." And after the ivory towers of London and Oxford, the salty licorice ice cream of Stockholm's Gamlastan, games of makot on chof Bograshov, late nights at Vienna's Café Hawalka, swing dancing at Ballhaus Mitte and all that there is in the world great and beautiful, there is nothing more worthwhile than family (if one is lucky). And being so lucky, starting a family business has only brought hers closer together. It got her sister and brother in law to take stems off literally tons of pears, her brother to put down his computer and pick up a broom, her mother to write beautiful poems and create amazing labels, her father to drive to the far reaches of the city to pick up various items of need, and it has made it possible for a husband and wife to work together on something they take pride in while keeping their baby close at hand.
Robert Birnecker is a native of Austria's Salzkammergut, a region known for having been a personal favorite of Kaiser Franz Joseph (a most benevolent ruler), relaxing thermal pools, Café Zauner's famous pastries, and a host of distillers that turn local produce into a variety of fine spirits. Robert's grandparents have spent over 40 years in the distilling and brewing business, producing award winning "most" (a kind of pear beer) and prized distillates using the fruits of their orchard and grains of their field. They thought that one of their children would carry on the family tradition of distilling, but it would have to wait a generation. Before deciding to distill, Robert studied politics and economics in Austria and Morocco and served as the Deputy Director of the Austrian Press and Information Service at the Austrian Embassy in Washington, DC. His decision to distill was born out of his love of traditional crafts and the pride of a small family business, both of which exemplify the real American dream.
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