Jackie Summers, Founder Jack from Brooklyn
Sorel is a Caribbean-inspired spiced hibiscus liqueur made by New Yorker Jackie Summers, who believes himself to be the first Black American with a distiller’s license since Prohibition. After being diagnosed with a spinal tumor and given a small chance to live, Jackie Summers not only beat those odds, but left his decades-long corporate career to create Sorel as a way to honor his Barbadian heritage. Following 623 failed attempts, Summers perfected the first and only shelf-stable sorrel liqueur.