Every year, my father produced a few liters of chouchen from the honey he collected from his hives.
I started helping him and getting a taste for it.
Then in 2021, I started alone by buying 2 small barrels and I reworked the basis of the recipe to obtain a less sweet alcohol.
During the fermentation of chouchen, which lasts several months, a lees formed at the bottom of the barrel and it was drawn off in order to remove this unwanted part.
One day, I had the idea of distilling this dregs in order to avoid these losses, and I decided to do training to learn how to distill.
During the training that I completed in January 2023, I learned how to make gin, and that is when I chose to launch my distillery by manufacturing these 2 products.
I then chose to integrate pollen into my gin in order to make the link with chouchen.