The Quari Trial Pack - 1.8" Cubes 4-Pack

Most ice is an afterthought. Quari treats it like a craft product worth getting right. This four-cube trial pack gives you the industry-standard 1.8-inch old-fashioned size — the format you'll find in high-end cocktail bars across Chicago and beyond — cut from the same Clinebell blocks Quari uses for their full-scale production. If you've ever dropped a cloudy, fast-frozen cube into good whiskey and watched it crack and dilute within minutes, you know why this matters. The difference starts with reverse-osmosis water, stripped of the minerals and impurities that cause cloudiness and off-flavors. Quari freezes it slowly in directional Clinebell machines, the same equipment used by serious cocktail programs. Slow freezing forces air and impurities out as the water solidifies from one direction, leaving dense, crystal-clear ice with no cloudy core. Each cube is then hand-cut to spec — no machine molding, no shortcuts. What you get is ice that looks like glass, melts slower than anything from your freezer, and doesn't muddy the flavors you're paying attention to. These cubes are sized for standard old-fashioned and rocks pours. They fit neatly into a double old-fashioned glass, chill without shocking, and melt at a pace that lets a good bourbon or mezcal open up rather than drown. They're equally suited to a simple highball where you want clean dilution or a stirred Negroni where temperature control matters. The four-pack format is built for sampling — try them in your usual evening pour, see what changes, then decide if the larger value pack makes sense for your bar setup. Quari operates out of Chicago, where they've built a reputation supplying restaurants and home cocktail enthusiasts who care about details most people overlook. This trial pack is the entry point: four cubes, no commitment, just a chance to taste what proper ice actually does for a drink.