Silverton, Oregon
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Silverton, Oregon
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Small-Batch Craft Orange Liqueur · 80 Proof · 40% ABV · 750ml
Warm, bright, and a little dangerous. Üla turns a good cocktail into the reason you came out tonight.
Silver · San Francisco World Spirits Competition
What It Is
Üla is a small-batch orange liqueur from Abiqua Spirit Distillery in Silverton, Oregon. We built it around the bitter-peel backbone of real orange rather than around sugar, and we finished it with a soft, honest honey note that carries through to the glass. It is 80 proof and it has body, which matters more than most people realize when an orange liqueur meets ice.
There are plenty of orange liqueurs on the world's back bar. Most of them are old, famous, and French. Üla is not trying to be any of them. Üla is an orange liqueur made in Oregon, in a small room, by a small number of people, for the cocktails we pour at home and the ones we write down for other people to pour.
Tasting Notes
Orange zest, honey, a faint dried-peel bitterness
Warm, bright, bitter-orange forward, clean sweetness
Long, soft, honeyed, not cloying
Full enough to carry a cocktail, light enough to pour neat
How We Built It
Most bars and most cocktail books treat orange liqueur as a utility ingredient. A splash of this, a float of that, something to round out a drink that was really about the gin or the tequila or the vodka. We love those books and we pour those drinks. That is not what Üla is for.
Üla is the bottle our cocktail book is built around. When a recipe we publish calls for orange liqueur, we mean Üla specifically — the bitter-peel depth, the honey finish, the body. Every drink in our book that lists Üla is a drink we designed around Üla. The Cosmopolitan we write is a Cosmopolitan with Üla in mind. The Kamikaze we pour is a Kamikaze with Üla in mind. The NW Bespoke Bliss, which a bartender and chef friend of ours built at our counter, is a drink that would not exist without Üla doing the work it does.
The Silver Medal at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition was a nice affirmation that we are not the only ones who taste it this way. The real test is whether the second sip is better than the first. Ours is.
In the Glass
Seventeen cocktails in our book feature Üla. Here are five that show what it can do.
Where to Buy
We do not sell direct. Üla is carried at Oregon liquor stores statewide.
The fastest way to find Üla at a store near you. Search by city, zip, or store name to confirm availability before you drive out.
Find a BottleIf you are passing through Silverton, our hometown store carries Üla and the rest of our spirits. It is a fifteen-minute drive from Abiqua Falls, which is a good day in one direction.
Visit Silverton LiquorQuestions
Orange liqueur is a spirit flavored with the peel of bitter or sweet oranges, sweetened, and bottled between 30% and 40% ABV. It is a core building block in a huge share of classic cocktails, from the Margarita and the Cosmopolitan to the Sidecar and the Kamikaze. Üla is an Oregon-made orange liqueur at 40% ABV, built around bitter-orange peel and honey.
Üla leads with the bitter edge of real orange peel and finishes with a soft honey note, not with sugar. We built it to carry a cocktail rather than sit behind the spirit in it. Every recipe we publish that calls for orange liqueur is a recipe we designed around Üla specifically.
Üla works in any cocktail that calls for orange liqueur. In our book that includes the Cosmopolitan, the Kamikaze, the Lemon Drop, the Pink Martini, the Bronx Cocktail, Damn the Weather, the Blue Angel, and house originals like the NW Bespoke Bliss and the Willamette Sunrise Martini. Seventeen recipes in total, all in our full cocktail book.
Üla is carried at Oregon liquor stores statewide. Use Oregon Liquor Search to locate a bottle near you. In Silverton, find us at Silverton Liquor. We do not currently sell direct to consumers.
The nose is orange zest and honey with a faint dried-peel bitterness. The palate is warm, bright, and bitter-orange forward with clean sweetness. The finish is long, soft, and honeyed. Üla has body that a lot of orange liqueurs do not, which is most of why it reads so well in a cocktail.
