Mark your calendar and set an alarm. The once-a-year offering of Paczki Day Vodka from a local distillery is set.

Detroit City Distillery will begin offering its Paczki Day Vodka, a popular spirit infused with beloved and locally made paczki pastries, as they have for the past several years.

On Tuesday, the distillery announced the online sales for the limited edition Paczki Day Vodka ($35 per 750-milliliter bottle) will begin at 8 a.m. via detroitcitydistillery.com/shop on Jan. 26. Orders placed that day will be available for pick up at 4 p.m. the same day. (You can also buy at some local stores, including grocery stores.)

This year, the distillery announced they’ve also increased the supply of vodka that can be shipped nationwide to select states. Detroit City Distillery said they can ship outstate via new partner Seelbach’s, an online distributor.

Conceived as an experiment, the paczki-infused vodka, free of preservatives, was born over half a decade ago when the idea to combine these two elements came to the distillery.

“The evolution of what began as a small experiment to create 20 bottles for just close kin and friends six years ago into a widely accepted tradition in Michigan’s Polish community and reaching families and communities across the country has been a wonderful journey,” quoted J.P. Jerome, the master distiller and co-owner of Detroit City Distillery. “We’ve seen visitors from far and wide, coming to us right here in Detroit, just to acquire this annual spirit for their Pączki Day celebrations back with their families, also known as Fat Tuesday.”

The distinct feature of the vodka is that it is distilled with authentic raspberry-filled and glazed paczki procured from the well-established and favorite New Palace Bakery located in Hamtramck. The out-of-the-box blend is prepared using 100% potato vodka from Poland and Michigan in a 500-gallon copper apparatus. Another differentiating factor of the vodka is that its bottles are sourced from Poland.

Jerome went on to add, “We like thinking of it as a Pączki Day Festival confined in a bottle. Clocking in at 88 proof, it’s of optimum smoothness, and the authentic taste of the raspberry and buttery pastry of the paczki is very noticeable.”

You can enjoy the vodka served cold over ice, combined in a cocktail, or accompanying a pączki.

The term pączki, representing the doughnut in excess, comes filled with a diverse range of fruit and cream and is topped off with icing sugar or a glaze. Traditional varieties feature flavors such as raspberry, lemon, and custard.

Every year, a communal festivity also takes place on the day of PDV. This year the event is scheduled for Feb. 10 at the distillery’s venue in Eastern Market Tasting Room, located at 2462 Riopelle, Detroit. The event will be conducted from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. both inside the venue and in the patio area outside, extending to an entire block. The menu includes food for sale, comprising of Polish delicacies along with PDV cocktails and the regular drink menu of the distillery.

The distillery is recognized for its commendable, small-batch crafted bourbon, whiskey, rye, gin, and vodka that use local ingredients. In the year 2023, DCD was globally recognized at the World Spirits Competition at San Francisco. Its products, Butcher’s Cut Bourbon, and Homegrown Rye whiskies, each secured a Double-Gold Medal.

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