LIQUEURS

LIQUEURS

Liqueur is a sweet alcoholic beverage often flavored with fruits, herbs, spices, flowers, seeds, roots, plants and sometimes cream. The word liqueur comes from the Latin word liquifacere which means “to dissolve”. This refers to the dissolving of the flavorings used to make the liqueur. Liqueurs are usually drunk after a meal with coffee or added as an ingredient to cocktails.

Below are some of the most popular liqueur and details;

Name	Origin	Flavor
Advocaat	Holland	Eggyolk and sugar, brandy based
Amaretto	Italy	Almond flavor
Baileys	Ireland	Irish cream liqueur made with fine Irish whisky
Benedictine	France	Sweet herb flavored. The world’s oldest liqueur dating back to 1510. It contains 27 various herbs, originally made by Benedictine monks. Brandy based.
Cointreau	France	The world’s best known Triple Sec (a type of colorless Curacao which is made from green orange peel in the Dutch West Indies)
Crème de Cass is	France	Black currant flavored
Drambuie	Scotland	Scotch whisky and honey
Galliano	Italy	Golden color liquid, spicy and herbal with a tinge of vanilla. Named after an Italian war hero in 1890, Giuseppe Galliano, who fought the Abyssinians
Grand Marnier	France	Orange flavored, golden color and brandy based
Kahlua	Mexico	Coffee flavored, made from coffee beans , vanilla beans, cocoa beans and brandy based
Sambuca	Italy	Italian anis seed flavored liqueur poured over ¾ coffee beans and set on fire
Southern Comfort	USA	Peaches, oranges and herbs flavored. An American whisky liqueur
Tia Maria	Jamaica	Coffee flavored, rum based
Triple Sec	Holland	White Curacao, a colorless liqueur with sweet orange flavor
Ouzo	Greece	A Greek liqueur with anis seed flavor