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A liqueur (US: / lɪˈkɜːr / li-KUR, UK: / lɪˈkjʊər / li-KURE; [1] French: [likœʁ]) is an alcoholic drink composed of spirits (often rectified spirit) and additional flavorings such as sugar, fruits, herbs, and spices. Often served with or after dessert, they are typically heavily sweetened and un-aged beyond a resting period during ...
Some single-drink liquor bottles available in Germany. Liquor (/ ˈlɪkər / LIK-ər) or distilled beverage is an alcoholic drink produced by the distillation of grains, fruits, vegetables, or sugar that have already gone through alcoholic fermentation. Other terms for liquor include spirit, spirituous liquor or hard liquor.
Ancient Greece. While the art of wine making reached the Hellenic peninsula by about 2000 BC, the first alcoholic beverage to obtain widespread popularity in what is now Greece was mead, a fermented beverage made from honey and water. However, by 1700 BC, wine making was commonplace.
99 Berries. Chambord (raspberry) Crème de cassis (blackcurrant) Guavaberry. Hideous (raspberries, other berries and citrus fruits) Lakka (cloudberry) Lillehammer (lingonberry) Mirto (Sardinian traditional bitterish liqueur made with myrtle, used as digestive drink at the end of meals) Murtado (ugniberry)
Chartreuse (liqueur) Chartreuse (US: / ʃɑːrˈtruːz, - ˈtruːs / ⓘ, UK: /- ˈtrɜːz /, French: [ʃaʁtʁøz]) is a French herbal liqueur available in green and yellow versions that differ in taste and alcohol content. [1] The liqueur has been made by Carthusian monks since 1737 according to instructions set out in a manuscript given to ...
Rum display in a liquor store (United States, 2009) Government House rum, manufactured by the Virgin Islands Company distillery in Saint Croix, circa 1941. Rum is a liquor made by fermenting and then distilling sugarcane molasses or sugarcane juice. The distillate, a clear liquid, is often aged in barrels of oak.
www.grand-marnier.com. Grand Marnier (French pronunciation: [ɡʁɑ̃ maʁnje]) is a French brand of liqueurs. The brand's best-known product is Grand Marnier Cordon Rouge, an orange-flavored liqueur created in 1880 by Alexandre Marnier-Lapostolle. It is made from a blend of Cognac brandy, distilled essence of bitter orange, and sugar ...
Mead is a drink widely considered to have been discovered prior to the advent of both agriculture and ceramic pottery in the Neolithic, [17] due to the prevalence of naturally occurring fermentation and the distribution of eusocial honey-producing insects worldwide; [18] as a result, it is hard to pinpoint the exact historical origin of mead given the possibility of multiple discovery or ...