Favorite liqueur?

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[Deja Q]

1. LaraMN

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[Blue_Tires]

41. groan....!

[Katina]

2. other

I have two new favorites...limoncello and Zen green tea liqueur


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3. Never even heard of either, but the first one sounds great.

[Katina]

9. they are both great in the summer

the limoncello should be kept in the freezer. You can serve it straight up or on the rocks or use it to make a martini. It's also delicious over vanilla gelato with berries for dessert. YUM

The Zen green tea is fairly new and makes a great Zentini or Zengria. It's made by the same company who make midori. I'm still trying different ways to have it, but I do enjoy it. Very different and not as heavy as some liqueurs.

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. I bought a bottle of the Zen Green Tea Liqueur, and don't really like it.

Not straight up, anyway - I was very excited, since I'm a total green tea snob, but it has a funny taste.

I will try mixing it with other stuff at some point - I think it'll make a great cocktail mixer.

[Katina]

11. there is a martini recipe on the back

but the way I make it is that I've substitued roses lime juice for the fresh lime juice. The zengria is made with white wine (usually a savignon blanc), served over ice with a wedge of lime. Try either recipe and you may change your mind. :toast:

[Rabrrrrrr]

21. That's another point of pissing me off - it's not a martini recipe, it's a cocktail recipe.

And Martini, when the word is actually used properly, which it rarely is in this day and age when ignorance and tactlessness and mediocrity are celebrated, is a proper name and thus capitalized.

I will try that recipe - that COCKTAIL recipe - at some point.

[Katina]

47. cocktail/martini, maybe you ought to have one now

I do believe that you are suffering from an unwarranted and rude meltdown. :wtf:

[Rabrrrrrr]

51. I'm sorry, that wasn't so much directed at you as the idiots at the Zen tea factory

and the idiot restaurants and bars who decided a few years ago to rename all cocktails as some variation of "martini".

It really pisses me off.

I have my own little world, and every now and then the real world moves in on it and fucks it all up. Like the big cigar craze of the early nineties - here I am, enjoying my cigars and its own little cigar world, and all of a sudden every fucking moron idiot asshole yuppie is "really into" cigars, driving the prices way up, fucking up the whole system, speaking their bullshit nonsense, and then leaving when the next big fad comes along... which seems to have been Martinis, an elixir that I have loved for 20 years, which all of a sudden became what every moron yuppy scum had to drink, driving up the price of gin and cocktails in general, and then a couple years later moved into a newfangled but utterly bankrupt cocktail craze with such blasphemies as the Chocotini and bars offering "Martini Menus". I hope to God the yuppy scum will soon move into something that I haven't enjoyed, like Boy Bands or gourmet popcorn, and get the fuck out of my world.

:grr: :mad: :rant: :argh: :mad: :rant: :nuke: :banghead: :mad: :grr: :rant: :nuke: :mad: :banghead: :rant: :argh: :mad: :nuke: :banghead: :grr:

[Hugin]

4. I voted "Irish Cream", but, I've never tried Drambuie...

:shrug:

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. Chartreuse, and Maraschino Liqueur

Can't make an Aviation or Hemingway Daiquiri without the Maraschino.

And I just love the taste of Chartreuse, both regular and yellow (prefer the yellow for straight up, but the green goes better in cocktails, especially the Drink Without A Name).

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17. What is the flavor of Chartreuse?

[Rabrrrrrr]

19. It's bloody Chartreuse flavored!

:P

Seriously, however, it's an herbal mix - the color chartreuse was named after the color of the liqueur. It's one of those alcoholic beverages that monks invented hundreds of years ago and still hold the recipe secret.

I don't know how to describe except to say that it's VERY botanical, and almost, but not quite, medicine-y. It has a slightly strong and serious taste, kind of flowery but mostly herbal; sort of in the way that gin is stronger and more herbal than, say, vodka (but Chartreuse tastes nothing like gin, so don't confuse my words in that sentence).

The yellow version is a little mellower.

Good stuff.

[Shakespeare]

28. Are you familiar with these guys?

Germain-Robin, especially, makes one of the highest quality cognacs on earth. He's also got a one-of-a-kind liqueur (not listed on the site, but detailed in the mailer they send out quarterly) that you'd probably like, since you like chartreuse. Get on their mailing list--it's probably the best piece of junk mail I get, and I get some pretty good stuff.

http://www.craftdistillers.com/

[Rabrrrrrr]

31. Holy crap! Thanks!

I signed up for their mailing list!

Those dudes have some fucking amazing reviews!

I can't wait to buy my first bottle - woo hoo!!!

I've not even tried their stuff, and I want a cask already...

[Shakespeare]

32. Even their "budget" cognac is transcendant.

He's got his own website (Germain-Robin)--hopefully, it'll have a link to a story the SF Chronicle did on him a couple of years ago. Fascinating story about who he is and how he ended up in Mendocino County.

Oh, and his varietal grappas are beautiful, too. If you've got a BevMo on that side of the country (or something similar), they may have one or more of his cognacs.

[supernova]

7. Frangelico

Hazelnut liqueur :9

Great by itself in a snifter or drizzled over ice cream. :9

[Debi]

10. Yes, also good in coffee

;)

[supernova]

13. Ummm. yes

and poured over pound cake, and coffee cake

Man, I might have to go out and get some. I'm making myself drool. :9 :9

[hippywife]

42. My fav, too!

Use it in tiramisu in place of rum. Nice to sip mixed with cream over the rocks, too.

[Debi]

8. Um, yes

:P except for ouzo :puke: and you forgot Tia Maria & Galliano

[Seashell Eyes]

12. Grand Marnier. It also has the coolest bottle.

Why must it be so expensive? Why?

[Zywiec]

14. Why don't I see Jaegermeister as a choice???

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16. Damn this software that only allows 10 choices in a poll.

It should allow 100 if you want to have 100 choices. Who wrote the software anyway, Diebold?

[tool_of_the_people]

25. You beat me to it.

Where's the Jager?

[mikeytherat]

15. My Big Fat Greek Ouzo Story

Middle of the day, college years, home for holiday break. Nothing to do/time to kill, so me and a few buddies head over to the local waterside mall to hit a few places and have a few drinks. First place we hit is a Greek restaurant and, at about 3:00 on a Tuesday, it is pretty quiet. As we are sitting at the bar having our first round of beers, a huge, hairy, very tipsy man comes over to us, bear hugs us all, and asks, "What are you drinking?" "A few beers," we reply. "Wrong!" shouts the man. He slams a bottle on the bar and says, "Ouzo! Because when the boss drinks, EVERYONE drinks!" It was at this point we noticed his gleaming yacht moored just outside the restaurant.

We drank until late in the night and, as we were leaving, he refused any money from us. We offered to tip the staff, but he said, "The boss will take care of everything!" He even paid for our cab.

What a night.

mikey_the_rat

[Debi]

18. And the next day???/

:crazy:

My ouzo story ends with me not remembering most of the night or the next morning...

[Rabrrrrrr]

20. I'm going to guess there was no next day.

:rofl:

Only the day after the day after.

Would be with me, anyway.

[mikeytherat]

43. Multi-day recovery, oh yes! It all started on a Tuesday,

and I think I started feeling better on Friday.

mikey_the_rat

[fishwax]

22. Kahlua

especially in "russian" form (either white or black is fine :))

[Bjornsdotter]

23. Other--I make my own

...peach, strawberry, apricot and blackcurrent.

Cheers

[MrScorpio]

24. BAILEY'S, BABY

Don't get no betta

[qnr]

26. sambucca. Granted, I could have chosen Ouzo, but they're not quite

the same.

edit: typo

[tigereye]

27. almond

I don't know the brand name, but it's from Portugal.


Cranberry liqueur can be nice, too.

[Xipe Totec]

29. Blue Curacao

I love Blue Daiquiris

[tjwmason]

30. Sloe gin or damson gin

They are both delicious beyond belief.

Of those listed, Drambuie.

[BarenakedLady]

33. Peppermint Schnapps

My nana felt it was the perfect cure for what ails ya. She's 102, so I listen. Growing up I remember anytime one of us stayed home sick, we'd get a shot of peppermint schnapps. I remember licking the shot glass clean...

:9

[EstimatedProphet]

34. I like them all

So I chose Drambuie

[Left Is Write]

35. Grand Marnier.

And Bailey's.

Not together.

:D

[baldguy]

36. Ice wine

[Rabrrrrrr]

37. Ice Wine is not a liqueur, it's a wine. It is damned tasty, though!

Yummy!

[Fire Walk With Me]

38. Drambuie, the golden fire. And Bailey's for the smooth stuff.

[Haole Girl]

39. 8 votes for Bailey's so far

Maybe I do belong here!

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[PittPoliSci]

40. i prefer the black sheep of candian liquers...

Yukon Jack!

[Rabrrrrrr]

44. That's not a liqueur, either; it's a whiskey.

I haven't had Yukon in years! I don't think I've even seen a bottle for sale for more than a decade.

I enjoyed it when I was in college, but that's about the last time I've seen it.

[PittPoliSci]

45. i'm just going by what it says on the bottle...

tonight it's been becks and soco 100.

so i'm fairly civilized by now.

[Rabrrrrrr]

48. No, it's the "black sheep of Canadian liquors"

Not liqueurs.

Big difference - liquor meaning "alcohol" or "spirit", a generic term for all distilled alcoholic beverages.

Liqueur is a sweet alcoholic drink that has been infused with flavoring or flavorings, usually herbs, spices, flowers, etc.

[Lethe]

46. Ouzo, but i'm not sure if it qualifies as a liqueur

My friend went to Greece for the summer and he brought back several bottles of Ouzo. We drank them all and continued to pursue quality Ouzo in the states.

I like the licorice taste and how it gets cloudy when you put ice in it.

[AllegroRondo]

49. Jagermeister

I actually like the flavor. Sip it, dont slam it.

[BuddhaGirl]

50. Pisco!!

I LOVE Pisco Sours....my Chilean friends introduced me to them...heaven! :9