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spirits that gave up sobriety and joined the dessert course instead.
means A sweetened, often strongly flavored alcoholic spirit, typically served in small measures after a meal.
from Straight from French liqueur, which comes from Latin liquor, 'a liquid' or 'fluidity,' from liquēre, 'to be liquid.' It shares its Latin root with plain old 'liquor,' but liqueur kept the French spelling and the French airs — the same family, but one stayed sweet and dressed for dinner.
- sugar law
- Needs 100+ grams sugar per liter to qualify legally.
- monk origins
- Chartreuse recipe known only by two living monks.
- oldest brand
- Bénédictine claims a 1510 monastery recipe.
- color trick
- Many owe their hues to flowers, roots, and beetles.
chartreuse — french herbal liqueur made by carthusian monks since 1737 with 130 secret ingredients
cointreau — french triple sec founded in angers in 1875, made from sweet and bitter orange peels
drambuie — scottish whisky liqueur created in 1906 from a secret recipe with honey and spices
kahlua — mexican coffee liqueur produced since 1936 in veracruz with arabica coffee beans