For the dreamers. This is an exceptionally limited edition release of our Collaboration with Sullivans Cove Distillery: an 11 piece box featuring four unique, rare, and never to be repeated world class whiskies.
Tasting Notes
Destination: Pure bliss. Reasoning: no need.
Short stories long by Doc.Choc
Back on the 11th of January, I received an email from Sullivans Cove Distillery asking about the possibility of producing a little something delicious together.
It was 2am. I was in Budapest; and after calling my mum to share this gloriously and scrumptiously electrifying news, I popped on another two layers of thermals and took myself for a jaunt around the (incredibly slippery) snow lined streets to burn through some delight. It turns out checking your emails whilst jet lagged on holiday isn’t that larger sin after all. Walking on icy cobblestones in the dark - well, I’ll let you be the judge of that one.
Being asked by a very cool group of people if you want to craft something beautiful - together, is perhaps one of the most rewarding delights of being a maker.
The reality of having your livelihood directly tied to the reputation and identity of a product you craft is often a lot of big feelings, or actually - small feelings, so my therapist tells me, about how cool that product and the experience it delivers actually is. You tend to spend so long so deeply engrained in the mundane minute detail of it all that you can just simply forget the bliss that exists up there, floating and glimmering amongst it all.
This project was a real yank up to the sparkly bliss when I needed it.
After five months of emails and trials and patience (how is it that the simplest custom packaging can take the longest to turn around!?) - I had the pleasure of what I’m now sure was the most meaningful day in Kenyak’s recent history. The day goes as follows;
—
It’s June 2nd. The first day of production. I’ve cleared the schedule but for this project - to really give it (and me) space to breathe into it. The first chocolate up is the French Oak cask, with colours to match the label - and as I will later realise, the flag. It’s a complex design. A perfect dot of red needs to be dropped into the centre of each cavity and left to crystallise just enough, not quite fully, or it will lift. Then a drop of navy, blown with just a little air from the airbrush to push it to one side; left to set, just enough - again. Then a drop of white done the same to create this almost watercolour eye. A few minutes of distraction either side and the whole thing is over, one of the layers will set too much and pull up from the mould just enough for another colour to bleed in under it and ruin the definition that makes the design so clean and uniquely softly bold.
I’m somewhere between the blue dots and the white dots, and I realise - that I’m doing the exact thing that I dreamt of doing when I was nineteen. That it’s been almost ten years. And I’m doing that thing; I’ve made my own way - and I haven’t just made it and moved onto something else. I’ve made it, and I love it, and it’s enough. That for the first time in a very long time, I’ve crested this mountain of chasing something I couldn’t know existed.
I’m not sure what lies beyond this mountain. But I know that this moment of arrival is indescribably precious.
Like a scene from a movie I’m seeing all of the absurd chocolate happenings of the last little while flash before me; and perhaps more significantly, being reminded of the dreams I dared to dream back when I was so young and naive.
So, a box of (very) good chocolates for the dreamers.
Here’s to another ten years of ‘em.
Things to know
These chocolates are made in collaboration with Sullivans Cove Distillery.
Indulge responsibly, we pour generously. These chocolates have an average ABV of 5%.
For the dreamers. This is an exceptionally limited edition release of our Collaboration with Sullivans Cove Distillery: an 11 piece box featuring four unique, rare, and never to be repeated world class whiskies.
Tasting Notes
Destination: Pure bliss. Reasoning: no need.
Short stories long by Doc.Choc
Back on the 11th of January, I received an email from Sullivans Cove Distillery asking about the possibility of producing a little something delicious together.
It was 2am. I was in Budapest; and after calling my mum to share this gloriously and scrumptiously electrifying news, I popped on another two layers of thermals and took myself for a jaunt around the (incredibly slippery) snow lined streets to burn through some delight. It turns out checking your emails whilst jet lagged on holiday isn’t that larger sin after all. Walking on icy cobblestones in the dark - well, I’ll let you be the judge of that one.
Being asked by a very cool group of people if you want to craft something beautiful - together, is perhaps one of the most rewarding delights of being a maker.
The reality of having your livelihood directly tied to the reputation and identity of a product you craft is often a lot of big feelings, or actually - small feelings, so my therapist tells me, about how cool that product and the experience it delivers actually is. You tend to spend so long so deeply engrained in the mundane minute detail of it all that you can just simply forget the bliss that exists up there, floating and glimmering amongst it all.
This project was a real yank up to the sparkly bliss when I needed it.
After five months of emails and trials and patience (how is it that the simplest custom packaging can take the longest to turn around!?) - I had the pleasure of what I’m now sure was the most meaningful day in Kenyak’s recent history. The day goes as follows;
—
It’s June 2nd. The first day of production. I’ve cleared the schedule but for this project - to really give it (and me) space to breathe into it. The first chocolate up is the French Oak cask, with colours to match the label - and as I will later realise, the flag. It’s a complex design. A perfect dot of red needs to be dropped into the centre of each cavity and left to crystallise just enough, not quite fully, or it will lift. Then a drop of navy, blown with just a little air from the airbrush to push it to one side; left to set, just enough - again. Then a drop of white done the same to create this almost watercolour eye. A few minutes of distraction either side and the whole thing is over, one of the layers will set too much and pull up from the mould just enough for another colour to bleed in under it and ruin the definition that makes the design so clean and uniquely softly bold.
I’m somewhere between the blue dots and the white dots, and I realise - that I’m doing the exact thing that I dreamt of doing when I was nineteen. That it’s been almost ten years. And I’m doing that thing; I’ve made my own way - and I haven’t just made it and moved onto something else. I’ve made it, and I love it, and it’s enough. That for the first time in a very long time, I’ve crested this mountain of chasing something I couldn’t know existed.
I’m not sure what lies beyond this mountain. But I know that this moment of arrival is indescribably precious.
Like a scene from a movie I’m seeing all of the absurd chocolate happenings of the last little while flash before me; and perhaps more significantly, being reminded of the dreams I dared to dream back when I was so young and naive.
So, a box of (very) good chocolates for the dreamers.
Here’s to another ten years of ‘em.
Things to know
These chocolates are made in collaboration with Sullivans Cove Distillery.
Indulge responsibly, we pour generously. These chocolates have an average ABV of 5%.
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