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Silverton, Oregon · Est. Abiqua Spirit Distillery
Oregon craft orange liqueur. Three oranges over Northwest local sugar.
Sweet orange, bitter Seville, and tangerine. The orange you'd lean across the bar for.
The Liqueur
Üla is a small-batch orange liqueur from Abiqua Spirit Distillery in Silverton, Oregon. It is bottled at 80 proof, which is stronger than most orange liqueurs on an Oregon shelf, and it has body to match. The body is most of what we set out to get right. An orange liqueur that thins out the moment it meets ice is not an orange liqueur we want to pour.
Sweet orange peel, bitter Seville, and tangerine, layered over Northwest local sugar. Brighter and braver than the orange you know. Bottled by hand in Silverton, every release.
80
Proof
40%
ABV
750ml
Bottle
Ag
SFWSC Silver 2020
The Ingredient
“Every cocktail in our book that calls for orange liqueur is a cocktail we designed around Üla. The three oranges, the body, the bright finish. If you swap the bottle, you're making a different drink.”
Orange liqueur is usually 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. We love those drinks. That isn't what Üla is for.
Üla is the bottle our book is built around. The Cosmo we write, the NW Bespoke Bliss a friend built at our counter, the Willamette Sunrise Martini a chef put on his menu, they only work because Üla is doing the work it does. Three oranges where you'd expect one. Brightness where you'd expect a syrup. Body where you'd expect thin.
Tasting Notes
Sweet orange, tangerine, dried peel
Bitter Seville, clean sweetness
Long, soft, bright, never cloying
Carries a cocktail, pours neat
Recognition
Silver Medal
San Francisco World
Spirits Competition 2020
“Medals aren't the point. But when a panel in San Francisco sits with the pour and says the body and the peel are doing what you built them to do, you pay attention.” — From the Distillery
In the Glass
Seventeen cocktails in our book feature Üla. Here are five that show what the bottle can actually 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 and confirm availability before you drive out.
Find a BottleOur hometown store, a few blocks from where Üla came together. They carry every release and most of the time they know us by name.
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 on three oranges (sweet, bitter Seville, and tangerine) layered over Northwest local sugar.
Üla layers three oranges over Northwest local sugar: sweet, bitter Seville, and tangerine. Brighter and braver than the orange you know, with body 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 lifts bright with sweet orange and tangerine. The palate carries the bitter edge of Seville orange through clean sweetness. The finish is long, soft, and never cloying. Üla has body that a lot of orange liqueurs do not, which is most of why it reads so well in a cocktail.
