Over a century ago, river pilots brought leclaire, iowa to life through their remarkable ability to navigate boats cleanly through the mississippi's dangerous cross currents, rocks & channels. The very first was philip suiter. River pilot vodka is handmade in le claire - overlooking the the river suiter piloted - & reflects the soul of this honest, honorable & down-to-earth pioneer. River pilot is a crystal clear vodka w/ unparallelled smoothess. We use 100% iowa ingredients in this product. First, we distill a clear sweet corn vodka using corn harvested less than 3 miles from our distillery. That spirit is blended w/ a neutral corn spirit distilled at a local corn processing plant. The two spirits are combined & then carbon filtered at our distillery. Finally, the blend is redistilled through our small batch process to ensure the smoothest & cleanest of vodkas. Each bottle is hand numbered to reflect the handcrafted dedication each bottle receives. This blend showcases a booming, but little known iowa industry. Iowa is the number one beverage alcohol producing state in the country. Hundreds of vodkas worldwide are made w/ spirits distilled at iowa corn processing plants. Because it isn’t bottled in iowa, people don’t know about the industry. We sell our alcohol byproducts to a local processor who redistills them into alcohol fuels. Knowing they also made spirits, we decided it would be a great collaboration to blend the spirits to make a premium local product. Pour river pilot vodka for pleasure beyond taste & raise a glass to the hardworking river pilots who tamed the mighty mississippi.
