Lars Williams and Mark Emil Hermansen, both alumni of Noma in Copenhagen, were not about to can any old cocktail for their company, Empirical, which develops flavors and distilling techniques with ingredients like beet molasses, toasted birch and young pine cones. Its first canned drinks are labeled Can 01 (10 percent alcohol) and Can 02 (8 percent alcohol). These lightly carbonated drinks are blends of ingredients like oolong tea, gooseberries, sour cherry, black currant buds and walnut wood. In Can 01, a mixture the color of ripe chardonnay is a smooth, lightly fruity quaff, with tea and gooseberries at its base. Can 02 has a deep ruby color, is fairly tannic and delivers tart fruit from sour cherries and black currant buds.
Empirical Can 01 and Can 02, $45 for four 12-ounce cans, us.empirical.co.
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