Denning's Point Distillery [June 2025]

On June 7th, 2025, I attended Five Points Fest in Beacon, NY.

After walking my friend to the train station, I found myself at Denning's Point Distillery. I had been wanting to go to this distillery since 2022, so I finally stopped by.

After spending my time in the tasting room, I wandered out to the bar. I had a great time speaking to the bartender, I believe her name was Elanna.

After speaking with her a bit, I got to talking about any drinks that she had been workshopping. After a bit of refinement and some back and forth, we ended up making a drink, and I got it named after me!

Here's the recipe:

1.5 ounces of gin
3/4 ounce of simple syrup (brown sugar)
Half a cap of orange blossom water
3/8 ounce of lime juice
3/8 ounce of lemon juice
A handful of mint
A splash of club soda

There's still room for improvement, I think the biggest thing is that you can probably just go with 3/4 of an ounce of lime juice, and the brown sugar simple syrup was made in a 1:1 ratio and not a 2:1, which is what I prefer. We used half of a cap of Cortas brand orange blossom water, so do with that information what you will! The only complaint we got is that it was too drinkable.

See more pictures from the day here!