New Deal Cascara Liqueur (75cl, 25.6%)

New Deal Cascara Liqueur is a Portland craft liqueur made from dried cascara, the husk and skin of the coffee cherry, steeped in spirit with pure cane sugar. Cascara has long been brewed as tea in coffee-growing countries. The distillery uses small copper pot stills, Bull Run water and locally sourced natural and organic ingredients. It is positioned as a simple-syrup substitute and dessert-cocktail ingredient, and can also be poured neat as an after-dinner digestif. The flavour is not that of roasted coffee; it suggests raisin, candied fig, dried apricot, black tea, honey and baking spice, with a long finish.