Nixta Licor de Elote 750ml

Despite the "corny" (quite literally) design of the bottle, the Nixta Licor de Elote is quite a serious undertaking where this ancestral variety of Cacahuazintle maize undergoes stripping of the juices from its roasted kernels, separated from the cob to instill into a corn distillate. Those dry, roasted kernels are then cooked and roasted again and then ground into a flour that is turned into a sweet wort over several hours of stirring in hot water in stainless steel tanks. This fermentable wort is distilled and incorporated with the Nixta corn distillate. This creates a slightly sweet, textured liqueur with notes of cornmeal, brown sugar, chili powder and with a deep extraction of those cooked corn aromas and flavors.