Laboratory analyses can’t identify anything special about the water Hangar One Vodka Distillery collects from Bay Area fog to produce its limited edition Fog Point Vodka.
But head distiller Caley Shoemaker can. She says it’s the taste of San Francisco.
At the height of summer, when inland temperatures soar above 90 degrees, San Francisco is shrouded in fog. The shifting gray mass pours in across the Golden Gate Bridge and over the hills, settling moodily throughout the city. It’s an ecological phenomena so alive and with such personality that it’s been given a name: Karl the Fog.