Organic Chocolate Liquor made from Dominican Cacao in Brooklyn, NY : Cacao Prieto

Red Hook Distillery Features Custom Designed Still

Our distillery’s custom designed copper still is the heart of our Brooklyn distilling operation. It was designed by Cacao Prieto founder Daniel Prieto and manufactured by Christian Carl, one of Europe’s oldest still makers. Our custom still is quite possibly the only fully automated, computer controlled still in the artisan distilling world. Distillery Photos [...]
Our Stone Mill is Ready For Whiskey Action

Get ready for whiskey! Yes indeed, our new grain mill is ready for action and that means that we are that much closer to full on whiskey production. We bought a beautiful turn of the century 16″ stone mill this past week from the original manufacturer who fully restored and rebuilt it for us. Unlike [...]
First Run of the Still!

Our 1000 liter still is up and running ! After months of hard work we finally completed the installation of our custom still in Brooklyn. It is one of the largest in New York! In fact we are the first and only licensed rum distillery in NYC since prohibition! After all that work, we were [...]
Our Rum

This chocolate liquor is made from heirloom varietals of organic Dominican cacao and organic sugar cane. Distilled and aged in our factory in Red Hook Brooklyn, Cacao Prieto produces a variety of liqueurs and rums all made from organic Dominican sugar cane and cacao beans from Cacao Prieto’s family orchard in the Dominican Republic.
Water From The Widow Jane Mine Delivered

It turns out that building a great city and distilling a great whiskey are both dependent on the same thing — limestone. For a city, limestone is the foundation from which great structures soar. For great whiskey you need pure spring water enriched by limestone. And the best limestone — the toughest, the strongest, the [...]
Fine Oak Ageing

Our rums and whiskeys are aged in American and French Oak barrels. Ageing times vary from several months on our liqueurs to a minimum of 1 year on rums and 4 years on bourbon.

Prieto History

Christopher Columbus sighted the island of Hispaniola on Dec 6, 1492. His brother Bartholomew established on it the first permanent European settlement in the New World, the city of Santo Domingo.

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Unique to our distilling process is the preservation and concentration of beneficial Antioxidants from our raw organic cacao. The antioxidants present in our distillate are epicatechin polyphenolic flavonoids.

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