BEAVER SACS FLAVOUR BOURBON
Beaver-flavoured whiskey, TAMWORTH, N.H. anyone?
A New Hampshire distillery has a new bourbon, Eau De Musc, flavoured partly by the secretion from a beaver’s castor sacs.
Tamworth Distilling says the secretion, called castoreum, has a history of being used as a flavouring, and is on a small list of U.S. Food and Drug Administration ingredients called “generally recognized as safe.”
The distillery says on its website castoreum “exhibits bright and fruit qualities (raspberry) and rich leathery notes along with creamy vanilla aroma.”
Other ingredients are raspberry, Canadian snakeroot, fir needles, birch bark (tar oil and regular oil) and maple syrup.
According to Food & Wine magazine, Eau de Musc will be a limited-edition release, available only in small, 200-mL bottles, for a reported cost of US$65.