Clairin Saint Benevolence is made in Haiti, more specifically in Saint Michel de l'Attalaye. The distillery was founded by Calvin and Chase Babcock in 2017 in partnership with Reverend Gueillant Dorcinvil, who also owns a distillery.
Renowned for its clairin, the town of Saint Michel de l'Attalaye is the epicenter of their charitable work.
This clairin is made from 4 varieties of cane: Cristalline, Madame Meuze, Farine France and 24/14. The cane fields around the Dorcinvil distillery are cultivated without herbicides, pesticides or other chemicals. What's more, they are harvested by hand.
The cane is then pressed, and the juice fermented with wild yeasts for five to seven days.
A batch of cane juice is isolated before fermentation, then reduced to syrup before fermentation. This local, ancestral technique is known as the Méthode Saint Michel.
Once fermented, the sugarcane juice and syrup are distilled separately in small batches in a single pass through the artisanal Creole copper still.
The distillates are then blended and bottled at 50°.
All profits from the sale of these bottles are donated to charity, to help improve the daily lives of families in northern Haiti.
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