Have a glass of San Francisco fog, on the rocks
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}This vodka costs $125-- is it worth it? (Hangar 1)
An "extraordinarily crisp" vodka with "elegant hints of pear, citrus, and honeysuckle" is now available from a California distillery—and it's made with the finest fog San Francisco has to offer, Time reports.
Hangar 1's high-end Fog Point (a bottle goes for $125) is crafted from culled water droplets in the Bay Area, gathered by mesh "fog catchers" in four spots around the region that eventually get so saturated that the water drips into a trough.
It's then collected to be sanitized, including a boiling process and a couple of runs through a carbon-filtration system that removes debris like leaf fragments. "I love that the water has a little bit of an earthy note to it," head distiller Caley Shoemaker says.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"[It's] like, if you’re standing next to a stream on a warm day, the scent of moist rocks." As Time points out, this whole endeavor could seem like a bizarre Portlandia skit in which "foodie-ism has jumped the shark." But there's a green angle that, as the magazine puts it, "embodies values the Bay Area worships: sustainability and local production."
To pull off the project, Hangar 1 teamed up with FogQuest, a nonprofit that collects water in similar ways to aid remote communities, as well as Bonny Doon, a "biodynamic" vineyard on California's Central Coast.
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Plus Hangar 1 is donating 100% of the money it makes from the booze to a good cause: FogQuest's future water conservation projects, per Fast Company.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}It may seem gimmicky, but California's drought means that "vodka’s main ingredient (water) is in short supply," notes the website, which adds that seeking alternative sources isn't so far-fetched.
(A man who went blind from vodka was cured by whiskey.)
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