Liqueur: Technically, liqueurs are liquor because they are distilled spirits. The general difference is that liqueurs are sweetened spirits with various flavors, oils, and extracts added; rum, whiskey, brandy, and other liquors can serve as a base spirit for liqueurs.
—The Spruce Eats
At Louisville Business First, Michael L. Jones describes the advent of Prova Spirits, a nano distiller (read: quite small) in Phoenix Hill with a refreshingly different business plan from the usual “Let’s Just Make More Bourbon.” Prova’s (Fb) opening information for the coming weekend is pictured above.
Italian-inspired nano-distillery Prova Spirits to open in Louisville
Prova Spirits will produce and serve Italian-inspired liqueurs like limoncello, vermouth, aperitivos, and amaros as well as vodka.
Prova Spirits has a 2,800-square-foot space located at 917 E. Liberty St., in the same development as Video Kitchen and Parlour NuLu. The space is split between a production facility and a 69-seat bar with a small outdoor patio.
Strangely, Falls City isn’t mentioned, but the brewery is located in the same complex of buildings. Prova Spirits co-founder Giuseppe Paoulos offers this excellent summary:
“So instead of focusing on bourbon, we focus on the vermouth that gets mixed with bourbon to make a Manhattan and other cocktail ingredients. Our idea is that we’re going to make everything. We’re going to make all the cocktails and the ingredients in-house – at least as much as possible. And you know, that’ll be kind of what we do that’s unique.”
In closing, note that making all the spirits and mixers in-house currently is the exact method of operation at Distillery 64 in New Albany. Compare and contrast with the forthcoming Prova.
Distillery 64’s Liquid Legends Fest debuts Sat., Aug. 9 in New Albany
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