Maggie's Farm Falernum Liqueur 750ml

Maggie's Farm is a rum distillery based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, operating out of Allegheny Distilling under the guidance of master distiller Tim Russell. The house distills its rum from Louisiana turbinado, a raw cane sugar rather than molasses, using longer fermentation times with Caribbean-derived yeasts to build higher ester content, then pot distills the spirit on copper stills of Spanish design. That same rum base and turbinado sugar form the foundation of the distillery's liqueur program, including this falernum, which has earned recognition from the American Distilling Institute and was named Liqueur of the Year at the 2023 New Orleans Spirits Competition.

This falernum is Maggie's Farm's interpretation of the classic Barbadian cordial, built on the distillery's own white rum. Fresh ginger, hand-grated lime zest, toasted whole cloves, and toasted allspice berries are steeped into the rum in small batches to extract their natural oils and flavors, after which the solids are strained out and the liqueur is sweetened with turbinado sugar and left unfiltered. It is bottled at 25% alcohol by volume, notably higher than many commercial falernums, and uses no artificial flavoring.

The result is intensely aromatic, led by clove and warm ginger spice, with bright, zesty lime running underneath and a lingering sweetness that never turns cloying.