Foss Distillery Bjork Birch Liqueur

Björk is the birch liqueur from Foss Distillery, the Icelandic craft distillery co-owned by sommelier Ólafur Örn Ólafsson and chef Gunnar Karl Gíslason, the pair behind Reykjavík's Dill restaurant. Every spring the team gathers birch from a roughly half-century-old forest at the foot of Haukafell mountain, and that birch is infused into a grain spirit distilled under vacuum, a low-temperature process at Foss that runs on Iceland's geothermal energy. The liqueur is then finished with Icelandic birch syrup, which gives it a gentle sweetness and its honey color, and each bottle holds a hand-cut birch sprig floating in the liquid. It is bottled at 28% ABV. Foss's sister product, Birkir Snaps, is the drier, stronger version traditionally taken as a shot with food; Björk is the softer, sweeter one built for sipping and cocktails. The distillery says it is meant to capture a spring night in Iceland, the moment after the rain clears and dew settles on the birch leaves of a wooded hillside, and reviewers describe a smooth, earthy, woodsy sweetness with a subtle nose. Serve it chilled as a digestif, pour it over ice, or use it in place of a sweetener in a whiskey or gin sour.

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