Ganong, Moonshine Creek Step Up Production To Meet Demand For Chicken Bones Liqueur
Chicken Bones Liqueur flew off of store shelves, with lineups outside of NB Liquor locations last week as the trucks arrived to drop off stock.
Jeremiah Clark, president of Moonshine Creek Distilleries, says the original plan was to make around 2,500 bottles for this Christmas. Because of the demand, Ganong Brothers Limited will increase the production of its traditional holiday treat to help produce more liqueur.
“Ganong Bros has agreed to make more chicken bones, just for us to make more of this liqueur,” said Clark. “They started up their production line again, just for us,”
They’re providing another 4,500 pounds of chicken bones to the distillery.
“We should be ready to start bottling the new liqueur by sometime later next week. Our goal is to try and get that back out into stores as soon as possible, so hopefully, everyone can get a bottle,” said Clark.
Moonshine Creek Distilleries expected it would be a popular product, but not to this extent.
“We had heavy traffic coming into our place. But at the NB Liquor stores themselves, a couple of places where we showed up to drop off cases of the liqueur, there were already single file lineups waiting for it,” said Clark.
He says they hope to produce another 6,000 bottles of Chicken Bones Liqueur.
Clark doesn’t know yet when it will be in stores, but he suggests keeping an eye on the Moonshine Creek Distillery Facebook page for info.
With the success of the liqueur this year, he expects Moonshine Creek Distilleries will be partnering with Ganong Bros Ltd again next Christmas to make another batch.
Tara Clow is the news director at 91.9 The Bend, a Huddle content partner.