Fort Hamilton, Fortress Cucumber Vodka 1L

Cucumber Vodka

37.5% ABV

Brooklyn, New York, USA

Garden-fresh cucumber takes center stage in this lushly textured flavored vodka from Fort Hamilton. Applications abound; handsome as a sipper or natural in a spritz, Fortress Cucumber fits nimbly into sours and shines in a savory Martini. Corn is distilled 7 times in a Vendome column still to create the base vodka, carbon filtered 3 times over organic activated charcoal. Cucumbers are incorporated via an additional distillation run in a hybrid still. Concentrated cucumber distillate is carefully blended into the batch. The final blend is proofed with mineral-rich water from New York’s Catskill Mountains.

Established in 2016 by veteran bartender Alex Clark and his wife, Amy Grindeland, to address the lack of traditional, pre-Prohibition, Northeast American style whiskey, Fort Hamilton Distillery celebrates American’s earliest style of whiskey: New York rye. First introduced to the Americas via German and Bohemian colonists, the hearty grain quickly became synonymous with American spirits and not only formed the backbone of American distillation, but the base of many classic cocktails. Fort Hamilton Distillery honors this historical whiskey by producing it in accordance with the rye of the time–from New York rye without corn in the mash bill.

In addition to authentic straight rye whiskeys, Fort Hamilton Distillery also produces single cask rye, blends of straight rye whiskey as well as high-rye bourbon, and corn-based American dry gin and vodka. Aged in heavily charred American white oak barrels, Fort Hamilton whiskeys are never chill filtered and are bottled in-house without coloring, flavoring, or additives. With an emphasis on the grain rather than the barrel, their spirits are barreled and bottled at a proof which lend themselves to cocktails while remaining balanced, bold, and nuanced on their own.