Empirical Soka (75cl, 43%)

Empirical Soka is a 43% ABV spirit in a 750 ml bottle from Empirical, distilled from a single ingredient: sorghum cane sourced from Wisconsin. Launched in the UK in January 2023 alongside Symphony 6, it is a minimalist, single-ingredient spirit with a grassy, grainy character. Sorghum is an ancient cereal crop used for millennia in Asian and African brewing and is the base of Chinese baijiu. Soka drinks somewhere between a craft vodka's purity and a shochu's grain character, with a green, cereal edge of its own. It can be served chilled and neat, or in a highball with soda. It is a grassy, grainy spirit with sorghum's natural cereal sweetness and a distinctive, slightly wild edge — clean enough to sip and characterful enough to anchor a cocktail.