Copper And Kings Distillery Is Embracing New Sonic Aging Techniques
At the Copper and Kings distillery in Louisville, Kentucky, founder Joe Heron is embracing the art of sonic aging, in which liquor is distilled using sonic vibrations. The recently discovered process reduces the unwanted byproducts of fermentation known as congeners via sonic vibration rather than the traditional process of aging the product in barrels, producing the same result in mere hours that would typically take years.
Yet Heron isn’t simply pumping sound waves into his liquor. That would be too sterile and impersonal. Heron sees his work as an art, and as such the spirits distilled at Copper and Kings require a playlist, using just the right musical pieces to create each of their offerings.
“Making good booze is like making great music,” Heron recently told Forbes. “It needs tempo and pace, it needs swing, and it needs the pure joy of a perfectly in-sync rhythm section.”
