The Bar — Marfa Spirit Company

Hours

Mondayclosed
Tuesdayclosed
Wednesday2pm – 10pm
Thursday2pm – midnight
Friday2pm – midnight
Saturday2pm – midnight
Sunday2pm – 10pm

Find us

320 W El Paso St
Marfa, TX 79843

Marfa Spirit Company and the Marfa Fermentation Project produce a wide range of spirits and housemade fermented ingredients rooted in the Trans-Pecos region of the Chihuahuan Desert. Drawing from defunct pre-Prohibition and historic cocktail ingredients, we reinterpret bitters, aromatized wines, cordials, and tonics using botanicals endemic to the desert and techniques informed by Border Texas, Mexican, and Indigenous fermentation traditions. In contrast to an industry focused on scale and inventory, our work prioritizes process, complexity, and place, with the Marfa Fermentation Project operating as an internal research platform that supports long-term, expressive spirit production.

Classics

High Desert Margarita$12
Sotol + Rio Grande Orange + fresh lime + lime oleo + salt
Prickly Pear Margarita$13
Sotol + Rio Grande Orange + Brushfire prickly pear syrup + salt
Paloma$12
Sotol + Rio Grande Grapefruit + grapefruit juice + ginger + Squirt
Daiquiri$12
Rum Reposado + Pure Single Rum + lime + piloncillo
Trans-Pecos Negroni$12
Gin + hibiscus rosso vermouth◆ + Trans-Pecos bitter◆ + grapefruit peel
Manhattan$12
5-year wheated bourbon + hibiscus rosso vermouth◆ + Ravenous orange bitters + orange & lemon peel
Old Fashioned$12
5-year wheated bourbon + “chucho” syrup◆ + Marfa Spirit aromatic bitters + orange and lemon peels + cherry
Far West Martini$13
Gin + hibiscus dry vermouth◆ + lemon peel + olive

Carbonated

Ranchwater$12
Sotol + clarified lime + lime oleo + grapefruit peels + salt
Piñon–Grapefruit Soda$14
Desert Rose sotol + piñon soda◆ + ruby red grapefruit soda
Hibiscus G + T$12
Hibiscus MSC gin◆ + mint + elderflower tonic + grapefruit peels
Bourbon Soda$12
8-year wheated bourbon + salt + agua piedra + lemon hydrosol◆

Marfa Fermentation Project

Laguna Madre Highball$15
Toasted coconut–infused Rum Reposado◆ + desert falernum + clarified lime + lime oleo + coconut water + salt + mint
Tepache Junglebird$15
Repo rum + Trans-Pecos bitter aperitif◆ + pineapple wine◆ + tepache + lime juice + fermented molasses◆ + salt
Guava Quina Ponche$15
Gin + fermented guava quina◆ + lime juice + lime oleo + salt
Hoja Santa Southside$15
Hoja santa–infused gin◆ + fermented pineapple wine◆ + tonic cordial◆ + lemon + cucumber + salt

Inspired by Our Travels

Cantarito$12
Sotol + chile posado◆ + lime juice + orange soda
Champurrado$12
5-year bourbon + cacao + nixtamalized heirloom masa + tamarind + milk + piloncillo sugar
Pistachio Carajillo$13
Vodka + coffee + pistachio orgeat◆ + piloncillo + orange flower water

Sans Booze

Zero-proof cocktail menu available.

Agua Frescas$6
Add some booze + $5

Single Barrel Pours

Full $35 / half $17.50

Houston Bourbon Society × Reserve 101
Barrel #116 · 113 proof · Dec. 2017
Houston Bourbon Society
Barrel #101 · 128 proof · Jan. 2018
Eight Row Flint
Barrel #163 · 114 proof · Jan. 2018

Flights

Primo Flight$20
Desert Rose, Rum Reposado, 8-year bourbon
From the Lab (pick three)$14
Trans-Pecos bitter, hibiscus rosso vermouth, hibiscus dry vermouth, desert falernum, black lime curaçao
Spirit Co Staples (pick three)$14
Pure Single Rum, sotol, gin, vodka

Bottles to Go

Desert Rose Sotol$80
750 mL
Rum Reposado$50
750 mL
Pure Single Rum$45
750 mL
TX Straight Wheated Bourbon5 yr $79 / 8 yr $98
750 mL
Sotol$38
1 L
Vodka$22
1 L
Gin$22
1 L
Grapefruit Liqueur$22
1 L
Orange Liqueur$22
1 L

Snax

Chihuahua Dog$9
44 Farms all-beef hot dog + cotija cheese + corn relish + mayo + chili dust
Marfa Dog$7
44 Farms all-beef hot dog + your choice of ketchup / stone ground mustard / mayo
Salsa$10
w/ caramelo totopos
Queso$13
w/ caramelo totopos

◆ Made in-house by the Marfa Fermentation Project. Every marked ingredient is produced on site from desert botanicals, Rio Grande Valley citrus, and border fermentation traditions. Most are available for purchase — ask us about any of them.