Empirical Soka - 750 ml
Fresh-cut grass and green apple — the flavors of the American heartland. A koji-fermented spirit built on Wisconsin sorghum juice and Kentucky sorghum syrup.
Category
Botanical spirit
ABV
43%
Volume
750 ml
Ways to drink it
Soka Mojito
A sorghum-spirit take on Havana's most famous drink.
Soka Daiquiri
The Hemingway Daiquiri on sorghum — grass and lime, balanced.
Soka Martini
Soka + Stonefruit + bay-leaf vermouth — Empirical's house Martini.
Super Soka
Crushed-ice Soka highball — tonic, lemon verbena, slow sipping.
Soka & Apple
Three ingredients — Soka, fresh apple juice, soda. Orchard in a glass.
Baltra Martini
Soka and Plum side by side, absinthe rinse, citrus lift.
Joe's Eastside
Cucumber, mint and lime over Soka — a Brooklyn classic refit.
Soka Cola
Two ounces of Soka, a glass of cola, salt and lime — done.
So Iconic
Soka, tonic, three ripe mango cheeks.
Other suggested serves
Have a favorite serve with this spirit? Tag @costaspirits when you pour it.
From the Journal
5 min
Empirical Spirits: koji, vacuum, and the right to ignore categories
Lars Williams and Mark Emil Hermansen built a distillery that refuses to call itself a gin company. Here's how they did it.
4 min
Empirical Cilantro, one botanical, two camps, one polarizing spirit
Empirical's single-botanical cilantro spirit is now distributed in Florida by Costa Spirits. 38% ABV on a light French-wheat base, built for bartenders who want to serve something that splits the room, in a good way.
5 min
Empirical Spirits in Florida, eighteen months in, the case for category-refusing distillates
Costa Spirits has been the Florida distributor for Empirical since late 2024, the Copenhagen distillery from Noma alums Lars Williams and Mark Emil Hermansen. Ayuuk, Soka, The Plum, and the rest of the line have settled into the rooms we expected: cocktail bars that build menus around ingredients, not categories.
