Craft distillery adds ‘smooth’ gin to portfolio

Pennsylvania-based County Seat Spirits has unveiled its newest release, Lock Keeper Gin, which it claims is “smooth as still water”.

The new gin is named in homage to the historic local Lehigh Canal, which was constructed to transport coal and supplies to and from Pennslyvania

It is crafted from organic juniper berries pre-soaked in vodka, which are then suspended in the still along with coriander, elderflower, grains of paradise, and both dried and fresh citrus zest from limes and Louisiana satsumas.

The new gin is named in homage to the historic local Lehigh Canal, which was constructed to transport coal and supplies to and from Pennslyvania, in celebration of the people who guarded the historic waterway.

It is bottled at 45% abv, and will join the Allentown distillery’s current line-up of Sand Island Rum and Class 8 Vodka.

County Seat Spirits was founded in 2014 as the Lehigh Valley’s first licensed distillery since prohibition, and has only been producing spirits since Autumn last year.
It prides itself on being a “grain to glass distillery”, performing the entire process from grain to bottle on its site in Allentown, and plans to release a barrel-aged rum this summer.

Lock Keeper Gin is available at an RRP of US$31.