New Product: Cranberry Liqueur

Oregon cranberries are grown by dedicated, enthusiastic farmers along the southern Oregon coast.  They are big cranberries with intense flavor and color.  A savvy grower from Bandon persuaded us to create a liqueur with this beautiful fruit and we are very pleased with the results.  This liqueur is entirely true to the fruit: dark red, tart, lightly sweet, and very fruity.

Blackberry Liqueur

A menace to some, vibrant purple-black blackberries are plentiful and prolific in the Northwest.  This late summer fruit is sweet and tart, bursting with flavor, and a no-brainer for an Oregon liqueur.  Clear Creek combines two varieties of blackberries - the wild Evergreen and the premium, exclusively Oregon-grown Marion - for a rich, earthy, ripe berry liqueur.  A wonderful dessert cordial and excellent on chocolate ice cream.

        375 ml bottle          $22.45*

Loganberry Liqueur

The loganberry is a hybrid of a raspberry and a blackberry, created by American lawyer and horticulturist James Harvey Logan.  Clear Creek's Loganberry Liqueur is made by macerating Oregon grown loganberries in clear fruit brandy that we distill.  The nose is that of a juicy warm loganberry on the vine on a hot summer afternoon, the flavor is lightly sweetened ripe berry, and it finishes with a satisfying natural tartness of the berry.  Terrific over vanilla ice cream, in champagne, or neat in a glass.

        375 ml bottle          $22.45*

Cassis Liqueur

There is a very limited supply of black currants in Oregon, but a small farmer in Scio, Oregon, grows beautiful currants and she provides them still on the stem, which is ideal, so we decided to experiment.  We macerated her black currants in our clear fruit brandy and the result is truly wonderful:  a tart, lightly sweet, slightly earthy liqueur with huge fruit flavor.  Lovely in the classic Kir and Kir Royale (cassis in white wine or champagne, respectively) or sipped on its own.

        375 ml bottle          $22.45*

Cherry Liqueur

Our Cherry Liqueur is made by macerating dark sweet cherries in Clear Creek Kirschwasser.  The skins, pulp, and pits produce a complex, earthy, more subtle fruit flavor than some of the other liqueurs - and sweeter due to the high sugar content of cherries.  A delicious dessert cordial or fabulous for adding authentic sweet cherry flavor to cocktails.    

      375 ml bottle          $22.45*

Raspberry Liqueur

Raspberries have a beautiful very distinct nose but many find the flavor lackluster in comparison.  In Clear Creek's Raspberry Liqueur we have managed to follow up the intense nose with a lovely, strong, fresh red raspberry flavor that you'd expect from the aroma.  Like our other liqueurs, it is made with our clear fruit brandy and perfectly ripe fruit, and the result is a beautiful, lightly sweet, distinctly raspberry liqueur.

        375 ml bottle          $22.45*

Pear Liqueur

Because the pear is a relatively simple sweet fruit, without the tartness of a berry, the Pear Liqueur was the trickiest liqueur to make.  Good balance is important.  We wanted to avoid making it overly sweet, which is easy to do with the Bartlett pear, or overly fiery with alcohol.  Clear Creek is famous for its Eau de Vie de Poire (pear brandy).  Because the base of the Pear Liqueur is our Pear Brandy, you get that same beautiful nose of a perfectly ripe pear for which our Poire is famous.  The taste is surprising complex, smooth, slightly floral, with a little bit of acidity, and a pear finish that lingers long after you set down the glass.

         375 ml bottle          $22.45*