Welcome to an exploration of Closed-Loop Cocktail practices —a concept centered on sustainability in mixology. In simple terms, closed-loop practices mean using every part of an ingredient to minimize waste and maximize efficiency. The team at 3BR puts these practices to use in a few products and you can try it for our ongoing Closed-Loop Cocktail Contest. A fan favorite, The Blueberry Lemon Bar includes a lemon simple syrup that is made from fresh lemon juice and white sugar. The juice comes from the lemons that we peel during service for twists and other fancy garnishes. In our early Sprin ..read more

Maslenitsa, also known as Butter Week or Pancake Week, is orginally a Slavic pagan holiday that marks the end of winter and the beginning of spring. This festive week-long celebration is steeped in tradition and is a time for feasting, socializing, and saying goodbye to the long, cold months of winter. The festival that marks the end of winter, shares many similarities with Mardi Gras, the famous carnival celebration in New Orleans. Both festivals are rooted in religious traditions but have evolved over time to become more secular and focused on food, music, and revelry. An important traditi ..read more

Gorovka: a 55% ABV (110 proof) pea-distillate of pure, unadulterated, unquestionable joy that is solera aged in a large oak puncheon barrel. Many have been ensnared by the allure of the General Chairman of 3BR Distillery’s spirit lineup, but what makes that beautiful brown booze so successful? What makes each sip of Gorovka better than the last? The correct answer would be “everything”, but for the purposes of this entry, we’ll instead take a look at the unique way in which Gorovka is aged. While big whiskey distilleries on the “Kentucky Bourbon Trail'' have access to significant real estate ..read more

06 SOJU is a special collaboration with our comrade Jisung Chun of Soy & Rice for our elevator spirit series.* Typically, you will find modern sojus on the shelves at a lower alcohol content than vodka, around 20%. 06 SOJU is a traditional spirit that sits at 40% and packs a lot of funky flavor. Soju is a traditional Korean spirit that has been enjoyed for centuries. It is made from a variety of grains, including rice, wheat, and barley, and is typically enjoyed neat or mixed with other ingredients to create cocktails. In the past, soju was primarily made from rice, but as the demand for ..read more

Join us on November 17 in celebrating the release of the new Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. COSTUMES ENCOURAGED! To send off Gen 8, we will be serving themed cocktails and holding a small tournament with prizes. If you would like to participate in the tournament, click the button below to register. The tournament starts at 7 pm on November 17th. Sign-up goes until 11:59 pm on November 16th. Below are the rules for the PoGO tournament: Ultra League Battles Only (up to 2,500 cp not higher) No repeat pokemon but all Pokemon are allowed. Round-robin play will determine final bracket seeding. Once bra ..read more

Did you know that some distilleries also make beer? It’s true! But it doesn’t taste so great. So why would a distillery make weird tasting beer, and what makes your traditional beer taste good? The difference is the end goal. In a distillery, those beers go through another process to become a spirit, while breweries have their own ways of ensuring quality. Everyone knows Scotch Whiskey. What most people don't realize is that Scotch is made from barley, water, and yeast, all ingredients in a typical German-style beer, just without any hops. The process and ingredients are so similar that it won ..read more

Welcome comrades! Two years, many revised business plans, and a lot of networking events ago, our team got together for the first time to talk about creating a distillery in New Jersey based on our grandfather's recipe. Even now, as the dark cloud which is COVID-19 looms over us, we are pushing forward to get construction started with an opening date landing squarely in the autumn. Soon enough, 3BR Distillery will be producing Keyport's very own craft spirits such as vodkas, whiskeys, and gins including the special recipe created by our grandfather, Oleg. That particular brew was developed by ..read more

The last few months of the year are slammed back to back with holidays. In October, you’re decorating your house with jack ‘o’ lanterns and scrambling together a last-minute costume. Before you know it, November blows through the door, sweeping up the spooky cotton cobwebs in exchange for autumn leaves. With Christmas quickly approaching, New Year feels like a footnote to the Holiday season. Unless you’re Russian. “For us (Russians) New Years’ has always been the biggest holiday of the year,” Maks Zhdanov said. Although Maks, the Chief Financial Officer, and Aleks Zhandov, Head Distiller. live ..read more

There is a saying in Slavic countries, that when one does something utterly over-the-top – or more specifically, solves a problem in such a way that it causes a bunch of problems all its own – that they have utilized the ‘Russian Solution’. The old saying points to that uniquely-Russian tendency to go crazy and overdo things or get it to a point where the project is never even complete. While the Soviets initially resisted all attempts at trade from capitalist nations, America’s dominance in the world market eventually became unignorable. The sudden integration of American businesses into the ..read more

There aren’t many things that evoke as immediate an association with Russia as vodka. "Vodka giveth and vodka taketh away," says Russian author Viktor Erofeyev, "it is the Russian God." The word itself is a diminutive of voda, the Russian word for water, and the prominence it takes in Russian culture reflects this essential place it takes in the language. Vodka has for some time now played a peculiar and decisive role in the wending of Russian history. Many countries have attempted prohibition in the past to varying degrees of success, but Russia, as always, presents something of a puzzle: wha ..read more