Come join us for a special evening with Root Liqueur!
*Complimentary Root tasting and cocktails crafted by the Bitter Bar from 8-10pm and then discounted specialty Root cocktails from 10-close!
*Delicious food provided by the Happy kitchen!
Please RSVP to
mark@bigredf.com to save your spot. Limited to 20 guests only!
In the 1700’s, it was called “Root Tea.” An herbal remedy made with...
[read more] Come join us for a special evening with Root Liqueur!
*Complimentary Root tasting and cocktails crafted by the Bitter Bar from 8-10pm and then discounted specialty Root cocktails from 10-close!
*Delicious food provided by the Happy kitchen!
Please RSVP to
mark@bigredf.com to save your spot. Limited to 20 guests only!
In the 1700’s, it was called “Root Tea.” An herbal remedy made with sassafras, sarsaparilla, birch bark and other wild roots and herbs. Native Americans taught the recipe to colonial settlers. As it was passed it down from generation to generation, it grew in potency and complexity. Particularly in the Pennsylvania hinterlands, where the ingredients naturally grow in abundance.
At the close of the 19th century, as the Temperance movement conspired to take the fun out of everything, a Philadelphia pharmacist removed the alcohol from Root Tea and rechristened it (ironically) “Root Beer”. He did this so that hard drinking Pennsylvania coal miners and steelworkers could enjoy it in place of true alcoholic refreshment. He introduced his “Root Beer” in a big way at the still legendary 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. The rest, as you know, is flaccid history
Here at Art in the Age, we thought it would be interesting and fun to turn back the clock and recreate a true pre-temperance alcoholic Root Tea. We’ve even made it certified organic, since back then, everything was organic. This is the opposite of corporate culture. It’s a genuine experience rooted in history and our own landscape. It is a truly interesting and contemplative quaff. Certainly like nothing else we have ever tasted before. It is NOT Root Beer flavored vodka or a sickly sweet liqueur.
TASTING NOTES:
• It is distilled from organic sugar cane grown in the U.S., and has a lively, burnished rose-gold color.
• Incredibly unique in flavor, fairly clean on the palate with strong notes of birch, peppery herbaceousness, spices, citrus and vanilla bean.
• Very aromatic in the glass and finishes medium dry and exceptionally full-bodied.
• A truly original spirit with a strong enough backbone to hold up in cocktail; a classic, but like nothing else.
