Worker Bee is Dolmen's only released distillate to date. It is available at select Oregon Liquor stores and descerning bars and restaurants in Oregon.

This clear distillate carries delicate floral notes of honey, white flowers and fresh baked bread. On the palate the elixer coats your mouth with subtle layers of honey and a flinty minerality of washed river rock.

We tend to drink this distillate 'neat' or over the rocks though it can be used as a flavor component in a number of cocktails.

Future projects:

Our mad alchemist and distiller Anders Johansen is always working on product ideas that preserve the nuances of the distilled honey while adding something that takes the flavors in a new yet subtle direction.

Queen Bee is an experiment that combines Pinot noir from Oregon's Yamhill County with the fermented honey.

This produces a distillate with significantly more mouth feel and new layers of aromatics. We've captured the deep cherry, blackberry and earthy characteristics of a world class Pinot noir and combined them with the aromatics of our distilled honey to make a distillate that is both delicately floral and wild at the same time. Maybe you will see this someday. Maybe you won't.

King Bee is simply a derivation on the original Worker Bee product. King Bee is blended to approximately 90 proof instead of Worker Bee's 80 proof. Everything is intensified. More aromatics, more floral notes, more honey and more alcohol. This too, is not a released product.

Carpenter Bee is an experiment using wood to flavor our distillate. We've aged our 120 proof distillate in oak, in estate grown cherry and a number of other local woods to discover the perfect combination. Oak tends to club the subtle flavors. Cherry wood turns out to be a perfect foil to the delicate honey flavors yet adds some of the tannins well all love in an wood aged brandy or whiskey. We refer to this experiment as 'Woody'. No laughing here.

Killer Bee is not a product. This is the 'heart cut' of the distillate that comes out of the still at 120 - 140 proof. This is what we use to experiment with wood aging and to blend down to make our delicate Worker Bee product.