Black Garlic Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Black Garlic (Allium sativum) is ordinary garlic, a bulbous perennial of the amaryllis family, Amaryllidaceae, native to Central Asia and grown as a kitchen staple for thousands of years, that has been aged whole for several weeks at controlled warmth and humidity. The living plant has flat, strap-like leaves 30 to 60 centimeters long and a bulb of 8 to 20 cloves wrapped in papery white skin. During aging the Maillard reaction turns the cloves jet black, soft, and sticky, with a sweet, mellow, molasses-and-balsamic flavor and none of the raw bite; the method is credited to Korea and Japan. We extract the dried bulb and bulb powder.