THE GOODS
The cube you’re thinking about when you’re thinking about artisanal cocktail ice. 2X2 inches of solid, clear ice. A perfect compliment for that top shelf bottle, classic old fashioneds, but let’s be honest, just about everything.
ROCK
2“ x 2”
For folks who desire a smaller cube experience, whipping up a Ramos Gin Fizz or imbibing with one cube at a time, look no further than the Small Rock.
SMALL ROCK
1.5“ x 1.5”
For more narrow rocks glasses, we offer you the Tall Rock. The same crystal clear quality as our Rock, built to accommodate more modestly sized glass.
TALL ROCK
1.75“ x 2.5”
Designed to evenly distribute the chill to tall glasses while keeping the dilution rate low, the Collins is perfect for highballs, Collins or any vertically gifted drink.
COLLINS
1.5“ x 4.5”
A sphere of crystal clear ice both keeps dilution slow and visually elevates any drink served on the rocks.
SPHERE
2.5“
CUSTOM CUTS
The great thing about ice is that you can shape it into just about anything you want. To that end, we’re open to exploring almost every shape imaginable. Want to freeze some bar dice or glow in the dark aliens in there? Yup, we’ve done that. Just click inquire and we’ll see where that takes us!
The advantages of this ice (beyond looking great) are that it has a lower dilution rate, which means you get to sip your drink longer without worry of it being watered down.
WHY DO WE DO IT?
We use a Clinebell machine, which is comprised of 3 basic parts: a cold plate on the bottom, the water bin in the middle, and a water pump on top. The ice freezes from the bottom to the top while the pump circulates water over the newest (top) freezing layer.
True, this might seem like a lot of work to freeze ice, but this isn’t just your run of the mill cube.
The cloudiness you see in ice cubes is mostly air trapped in the ice. Because ice is typically frozen from the outside towards the center, the bubbles concentrate in the center of the block.
The bubbles don’t evenly distribute themselves in the ice as you might imagine, and to explain this we have to get a little sciency: ice is just water forming into a low energy crystalline state.
HOW DO WE DO IT?
Ice crystals want to form in their lowest energy state, or a perfect repeating pattern of the same structure over and over again. When you throw air or dirt into the mix, that disrupts the lowest energy state. Those non-water items are not trapped in the ice until they reach a higher concentration toward the center, making it more and more likely the non-ice will stick in place – causing that cloudiness we are all familiar with. The Clinebell solves this by agitating the top of the ice as it freezes pushing the debris and gas bubbles to the top, which is cut off after the process is complete – leaving behind gorgeous, crystal clear ice.