Bols Blue Curacao Liqueur, 50 cl

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Brand recognition is an important part of choosing your Blue Curacao. If you’ve heard of the brand before, it means the company is well established and they know what they’re doing. With: Light white rum, vodka, blue curaçao, pineapple juice, lime juice, lemon juice and sugar syrup. Curaçao [1] ( / ˈ k jʊər ə s aʊ, - s oʊ/ KURE-əss-ow, -⁠oh, Dutch: [kyraːˈsʌu] ⓘ) is a liqueur flavored with the dried peel of the bitter orange laraha, a citrus fruit grown on the Dutch island of Curaçao.

The Bols family began producing Dutch genever in 1664. Amsterdam’s existence as a trading city in the 1600s gave Bols access to many spices, herbs, and fruits. The Bols genever recipe was recreated in 1820 using a complex mix of botanicals. And while its barrel-aged genever launched internationally in 2010, Bols started resting genever on oak – French Limousin oak, to be exact – in 1883. By the way, genever is not the same as gin We say: Baby blue creamy yoghurt with vanilla infused vodka, orange liqueur and aromatic rose water. What does this mean? This means that the Lucas Bols distillery would have certainly benefited from a cheap supply of spices and ingredients to make their drinks. What About the Laraha Fruit?But if you want your margarita to take on different hues than just those two ones and have it still taste as good, try using Blue Curaçao instead! Add this sweet liqueur into your usual recipe for a Blue Margarita with an exception - its beautiful blue shade will give guests something new to look at while sipping away. Ingredients We say: A blue-rinsed riff on the Tarling's 1933 competition winning Red Lion, created with the hope of celebrating another English competition win. There is one orange-flavoured liqueur for each of the three lions.

Add Ice, White Rum, Pineapple Juice, Mango Juice, Lime Cordial and Lemon Juice into a Highball glass. Add Ice, Vodka, Peach Schnapps, Blue Curacao, Orange Juice, and Pineapple Juice to a Old Fashioned Glass. With:Gin, lysholm Linie Aquavit, blue curacao, maraschino liqueur, lemon juice, coconut water, sugar The Laraha ingredient that’s used in the liqueur doesn’t actually come from the actual fruit itself but from the peel. Some other liqueurs are also sold as curaçaos with different flavors added, such as coffee, chocolate, rum and raisin. Pierre Ferrand, a cognac and dry Curaçao brand, produced a less sweet "Ancienne Méthod" curaçao using 1800s techniques. [15] See also [ edit ]Bols also makes Damrak Gin, a brand that combines 17 botanicals, including juniper berry, Valencia orange peel, and coriander. Bols also makes an award-winning vodka With: Gin, blue curaçao, orange curaçao, grand marnier, orange juice, lemon juice, sugar syrup, orange bitters The story starts in 1527 when Spanish explorers brought the Seville Orange to the Island of Curacao.

We say: Gin and delicate maraschino cherry with orange and lemon, coconut and a hint of Norwegian aquavit character.

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Curaçao liqueur is traditionally made with the dried peels of the laraha ( Citrus × aurantium subsp. currassuviencis), a bitter orange that developed on Curaçao. [4] Spanish explorers had brought the progenitor of the laraha, the bitter Seville orange, to the island in 1527. [5] [6] Although the bitter flesh of the laraha is unpalatable, the peels are pleasantly aromatic. [7] In its natural form, Curacao is actually clear in colour, but is artificially coloured blue pretty much for effect.

It is not known who developed the first curaçao liqueur, and when. The Dutch West Indies Company took possession of Curaçao in 1634. The Bols distillery, founded in 1575 in Amsterdam, had shares in both the West and East India Companies to guarantee its access to spices required for their distilled drinks. According to the early nineteenth-century French culinary chronicler Alexandre Grimod de la Reynière, curaçao originated in Flanders, [2] and proximity to the province of Holland gave distillers easy access to the necessary peels (since Curaçao was a Dutch colony at the time). [3] One story suggests that is was coloured Blue because Lucas Bols loved making their Liqueurs stand-out.Although some of us call it the malty granddaddy of gin, genever is very much its own spirit. Because of its malt bill, it’s actually closer to whiskey than gin. Both genever and gin use juniper berry as a flavoring agent, but gin’s base is a neutral grain spirit mixed with botanicals, whereas genever is made with a mash of malted barley, rye, and corn. Like whiskey, genever can also be jonge (young), oude (old), and is sometimes aged in oak. But Bols also produces gin Add the tequila and Blue Curaçao liqueur to the glass or shaker. Squeeze lime juice in there as well, then shake up your drink. The salt will give it that little extra crunch on top of all of its already refreshing qualities.