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UNFOLDED BY THE WATER ARE THE FACES OF THE FLOWERS
Distillation, like life, depends upon the water...
We hand-gather our water
We midwife each distillation on one of the full moons
Regeneratively grown & harvested
The quality of water that is used in the womb of the copper alembic still is crucial, because it births the steam. Our water is gathered using chant, aloha, and reverence.
Regeneratively grown & harvested
We midwife each distillation on one of the full moons
Regeneratively grown & harvested
We grow 100% organic plants and flowers from "Strictly Medicinal Seeds". Our 2 acre garden serves the bees, our hydrosols, and our `ohana. The other botanicals we source from natural occurring ecotones on Kaua`i.
We midwife each distillation on one of the full moons
We midwife each distillation on one of the full moons
We midwife each distillation on one of the full moons
In Hawaiian cosmology there are three nights where full moon energy is most potent for harvest and distillation. Akua, Hoku, and Māhealani. The micro-distillation of 1800ml per session allows for the most potent, expressive, and balanced of products.
Solid Copper-Alembic Stills
Fire, Steam, Condensation, Rain
We midwife each distillation on one of the full moons
While the alembic still was first created 3000 years ago by Maria Prophetessa, an alchemist in Alexandria, Egypt, the finest copper stills made today come from Portugal. We use only Al-Ambiq hand-crafted stills, using methods that have been passed down for millennia.
Fire, Steam, Condensation, Rain
Fire, Steam, Condensation, Rain
Fire, Steam, Condensation, Rain
We fill the belly with mountain water, fill the column with botanical materials prepared in specific ways to maximize release, seal the rims with rye paste, start the cooling system created by hand-fed ice, and light the fire. As the temperature climbs to 100c, the first hydrosol emerges into our sterilized vessel.
Integrated waters and oils
Fire, Steam, Condensation, Rain
Fire, Steam, Condensation, Rain
While so many seek only to extract single essential oils, we allow the waters and oils to cohabitate. Within two weeks of curing 99% of the oils are reintegrated into the hydrosol. Thus creating a far superior aromatic, therapeutic, and effective botanical spirit. This is how our ancestors made alchemy.
We believe in sharing the whole plant, not edited, isolated or fractionated.
Botanical Steam-distillation is essentially the creation of a controlled aromatic watershed....
