A Berlin spirits house founded in 2009 by Vincent Honrodt, who revived the spirits his great-grandfather Ernst Honrodt distilled from regional grain and sugar beet in the 1930s. Berliner Brandstifter makes gins with flowers from around Berlin, a vodka from sugar beet, a wheat Kornbrand and cask-aged editions of gin and Korn, bottled, sealed and numbered by hand in small editions.
- Raw materials
- German wheat of the highest quality class for the Kornbrand, which is also the base spirit of the gins; French sugar beet for the vodka; and flowers and botanicals partly grown and hand-picked around Berlin — elderflower, mallow, woodruff, wild rose, cornflower and others.
- What makes it distinctive
- Each botanical is macerated for weeks and distilled on its own, and the single distillates are blended with the base spirit at the partner distillery Schilkin on the Gutshof Alt-Kaulsdorf in Berlin, where the Kornbrand is made under Dr. Mier. Every spirit is filtered seven times, made in small editions — 999 bottles for the vodka and Korn, 9,999 for the gin — and bottled, sealed and numbered by hand in Berlin; the pre-production is done with Berlin workshops for people with disabilities.
- Production methods
- Contract Production
- Handcrafted
- Small Batch
What they make
- GinsThe Berlin Dry Gin with elderflower, mallow, fresh cucumber and woodruff, the darker Berlin Dark Dry Gin with blueberry, violet and cornflower, the Berlin Pink Dry Gin, the art edition, and the Berlin Aged Gin, rested each year in German Pinot Noir casks with a botanical of the year.
- VodkasThe Berlin Vodka from sugar beet, refined with wild rose, elderflower, orris root, blackcurrant and cornflower, filtered seven times.
- KornThe Premium Kornbrand, a Doppelkorn from German wheat filtered seven times, and the Gelagerter Kornbrand, matured in cognac casks and in a 16-year edition in Limousin oak.
- WhiskiesA single malt whisky matured three years in ex-bourbon casks in the Black Forest and finished a year in Brandstifter's Aged Gin red wine casks.
