Discover The Stillery: where L’OUI cocktails come to life

The Stillery was born from Pascal Peeters’ (33) passion for home distilling that spiraled out of control. Ten years later, Pascal and his partner-in-crime, Robin Karels (34), have turned their hobby into The Stillery: a Willy Wonka-esque craft distillery in the Amsterdam harbor. Here, their award-winning spirits shine, recognized for quality and taste in prestigious competitions. With a keen eye for the future, the duo only invests in projects with real potential – like L’OUI.

Crafting the future

The Stillery produces organic vodka, gin, and genever from “grain to glass,” using locally sourced grain along with the traditional dedication and care. This is the essence of craft, combining ancient distilling art with a modern environmental commitment. The Stillery shortens supply chains to lower their carbon footprint and plants a tree for every liter of craft spirit they make. This is “The Original Craft Spirit” in a nutshell.

The favourite drink of the makers?

Pascal’s latest “liquid lovechild” is The Stillery’s Dutch North Sea Gin, inspired by the Dutch coastline. It’s crafted with local botanicals like blackberry leaf, sea buckthorn, thyme, rosehip, and seaweeds like Japanese wireweed and toothed wrack. This gin won a gold medal even before its official release.

What does The Stillery do for L’OUI?

The Stillery is more than just a spirit brand. If you’re looking for recipe development, this is where the magic happens. Over the past five years, The Stillery has crafted unique flavor profiles for some 70 Dutch brands, from limoncello to gin, genever, and RTDs like gin tonics. The distillery is filled with a library of distillates and tinctures that form the starting point for L’OUIs cocktails.

The constant stream of recipe development has led The Stillery to establish a huge collection of distillates and tinctures. You’ll find this liquid library in The Stillery’s Laboratory where the 5-liter jars are stacked to the sealing. This is Pascal’s domain and it’s where the magic happens. It’s a mesmerizing experience to smell and taste all the different exciting flavors on shelve. From exotic fruits to worldly spices and local roots and herbs. This collection was the starting point for L’OUIs marvelous cocktails.

25 classic cocktails

For months, Pascal and L’OUI co-founder Edwin de Koeijer worked tirelessly in the lab to create 25 unique recipes. The worlds cocktail classics have been dissected reverse engineered and reimagined for the better. For example, let’s take a look at Triple Sec. It’s a common ingredient in many cocktails. The liqueur is a combination of bitter and sweet, warm and tardy orange-like flavors, that surprisingly don’t come from just one source. Oranges come in many varieties: some edible and some not. Moreover, an orange consists of several parts. There is the peel and the fruity body which both can either be used dried or fresh. When distilled, these choices are critical. By distilling the different parts and recombining them in favorable proportions, the right balance of full bodied bitter and sweet orange liqueur is made. This is one of the ways The Stillery has completely redefined the 25 classic cocktails L’OUIs machine produces.

Unlike a cocktail bar

The process of dissecting, extracting, distilling and blending flavors is simply not possible in your run of the mill cocktail bar. Yet the process is essential when it comes to creating a fool proof consistent cocktail experience. The Stillery shapes L’OUI’s cocktails layer by layer, carefully analyzing each layer in terms of what it does to the cocktail’s flavor, mouth feel, and looks. If a distillate or tincture doesn’t work, it’s back to the drawing board.

Come get a taste of our cocktails

Do you want to taste how The Stillery and L’OUI have reinvented the cocktail? There is only one way to find out! We would be happy to invite you for a demonstration. Get in touch with us via +31 (0)6 19184451 or send a mail to cheers@loui-cocktails.com for more information.