Just your usual Island tour with a visiting old friend, who noticed, what we all have seen every year, Fruits just fallen from Trees spoiling on the ground. “Remember what we used to do with this” he said. Of course, he referred to “Schnapps” – or as it is also called, Eau De Vie or Fruit Brandy. The idea to utilize the local agricultural products and create a local production stuck and towards the end of 2015 a small Potstill was en route from Germany; small enough to run trials, large enough to produce quality spirits. Oddly enough the first trial that year was not even your typical fruit but Breadfruit, which was a surprising success. A few bottles of the first Breadfruit Eau de Vie were given to friends. Other fruits followed, Guava / Banana / Mango; with that came the challenges, trials and errors but also more ideas. In 2016, the first attempt to use Dasheen in the production of a local Vodka took place and again it was an instant success. The idea of “Caribbean Craft Distilling” became a reality…Visit their Facebook
We have 14 pleasant awesome flavors to be exact. All natural local herbs, with 90% of them growing in their natural habitat. The few herbs that we cultivate like basil and mint, that grows around the house. Numerous amount of the herbs grow in their natural habitat on our island St. Lucia and don’t require any additional input of fertilization. They grow in their natural habitat and take care of themselves. Based on their resilience in nature, it tells a lot about the potency of the herb, its capacity to be able to overcome and with stand all these environmental situations.
We have some signature herbs, Sweet Bay most preferred, Lemonbay, Moringa, Cinnamon. We primarily use the cinnamon leaves because we are interested in saving the plant, not necessarily having to break the bark of the tree just to get the benefits. We are very concerned about nature and how we handle nature while we receive all the benefits that we now can hand over to others.
