Koval Rolls Out New Line Of Limited-Run Luxury Craft Spirits

Block Club Chicago / by Alex V. Hernandez / February 12, 2025

RAVENSWOOD — Koval’s new luxury line features a bottle celebrating the ingredients used to craft the Ravenswood distillery’s award-winning spirits.

Founded in 2008 by Sonat Birnecker Hart and Robert Birnecker, Koval became the first distillery in Chicago since Prohibition ended. The distiller’s new line, Thresh & Winnow, features limited-edition whiskeys and Japanese botanical-inspired gins.

“We wanted to have a really high-end line,” Birnecker Hart said. “We have a lot of different products under Koval, and we needed a new line to differentiate some of the things that are some of the new projects that we want to engage in.” Read More Here.