Alberta Distillery Releases Chai Liqueur Using Canadian-Sourced Ingredients and Secret Family Recipe
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Alberta-based distillery Field Notes is launching its second product for Albertans to enjoy, called Jaya Chai Liqueur. It’s an aromatic new spirit crafted from a secret family recipe inspired by co-founder Faaiza Ramji’s Canadian-South Asian heritage, where chai is offered as a sign of hospitality in every interaction. Chai liqueurs are rare in the Canadian market and Jaya Chai Liqueur uses distilled Canadian oats, filtered water, assam tea, Alberta beet sugar and a blend of spices like cardamom and clove for an invigorating, authentic chai flavour.
“In my family and culture, every interaction starts with chai,” says Ramji. “And each recipe is unique—like a family’s fingerprint. I’m thrilled to be bringing a Canadian-South Asian drink like Jaya Chai Liqueur to Albertans as we gear up for a busy social calendar this fall and winter season. Alberta’s liquor stores and restaurants have been super receptive to adding another Field Notes spirit onto their shelves and menus.”
Jaya Chai Liqueur is best served on ice, with a splash of cream, or as a substitute in any classic coffee cocktail. Alongside the award-winning Sweet Pea Amaro released by Field Notes in 2021, Jaya will is now available in retail and hospitality locations across Alberta.
ABOUT FIELD NOTES
Field Notes is an award-winning Alberta-based distillery using often-overlooked ingredients grown in Canada in abundance. Following the 2021 release of its innovative debut liqueur, Sweet Pea Amaro, Field Notes made history as the first company in North America to fashion commercial spirits from field peas—a crop of which Canada leads globally in production and export. A kind of pilgrimage into Canadian Prairie terroir, Field Notes uncovers the seemingly hidden gems of Canadian agriculture and distils them to the masses—one unique spirit at a time.
ABOUT THE FOUNDERS
Field Notes is the brainchild of Faaiza Ramji, an Edmonton-based entrepreneur with a naturally curious disposition. During a directorial tenure in economic development she learned the immense value of agriculture in Alberta: Although Canada produces many of the basic ingredients the world relies upon, very few of those ingredients end up as finished products on local shelves, sacrificing GDP, jobs and additional downstream benefits to foreign countries. Greatly influenced by her South Asian heritage—where her grandmother, aunts and mother embraced natural remedies using herbs and spices to aid digestion, boost immunity, and even nourish skin—Faaiza formed a partnership in 2021 with Lindsey Good, a dedicated grower and owner of a 100-year old farm in southern Alberta. Together, driven to build a complete food ecosystem within the Canadian Prairies by turning more local crops into more finished products the world can enjoy, Ramji and Good planted the seeds for a new kind of Alberta distillery and called it Field Notes.
