Liqueurs Category

These liqueurs are made with lemon peels and best served very cold.

This Spanish liqueur is made up of 43 ingredients, with vanilla and citrus predominant.

This is an expensive and light French apéritif made with wine and brandy. There are two versions: Lillet Blonde (white) and Lillet Rouge (red).

This excellent lemon-flavored Italian liqueur is often stored in freezers so that it can be served ice cold. It's hard to find in stores, but easy to make at home.

Liqueurs are mixtures of spirits, sweeteners, and flavorings like herbs, fruits, nuts, and flowers. They're sometimes served as after-dinner drinks, but they're more often poured on desserts or mixed into cocktails, milk, or coffee. Some cooks buy miniature bottles of liqueurs to conserve on money and cabinet space.

This liqueur is made with Scotch and flavored with honey and herbs.

This cognac-based liquor is flavored with the peels of mandarin oranges. Mandarine Napoléon is a well-regarded brand.

This is an excellent semi-dry clear liqueur that's made with sour cherries. It's made from marasca cherries, which are native to Croatia. Unrest there has made good Maraschino liqueurs hard to find in recent years. Luxardo Maraschino and Stock Maraschino are well-respected brands.

This brandy-based Greek liqueur is flavored with gum mastic.

This green Japanese liqueur has a very sweet, melon flavor.

This category includes crème de menthe and peppermint schnapps.

This American liqueur is an inexpensive Galliano wannabe.

The best (and driest) is Grand Marnier, followed by Cointreau, curaçao, and--the sweetest of them all--triple sec.

This potent, anise-flavored Greek liqueur is usually mixed into water, turning it cloudy.

The name means "perfect love" in French, and this sweet purple liqueur is flavored with citrus and spices.

La Grande Passion is a well-regarded brand.

This is a licorice-flavored liqueur that the French like to serve with water. It's higher in alcohol than anis or anisette. Popular brands include Pernod and Ricard.

Like crème de menthe, this is flavored with peppermint.

This is a popular brand of pastis, or licorice-flavored liqueur. It tastes like a mouthful of Good 'N Plenty candies.

This is the liqueur that the upper crust of British society drinks at polo matches. It's bittersweet and very potent. There used to be several varieties of Pimm's, based on gin, whiskey, rum, brandy, and vodka, but only the one based on gin, called Pimm's No. 1, is still being produced. Serve it with club soda and a bit of lemon juice and garnish with cucumber and celery.

This is a bitter form of red vermouth. It's often mixed with soda.

This is great in champagne or on ice cream.Chambord is a popular brand. Don't confuse this with framboise, a raspberry brandy.

This is a popular brand of pastis, or licorice-flavored liqueur.

This is a citrus-flavored liqueur that's based on rye whiskey. There's a piece of rock candy in every bottle.

This category includes coconut rum and spiced rum.

This is an orange liqueur with a hint of chocolate. It's produced in Israel.

This is a semi-dry Italian liqueur that's flavored with anise, berries, herbs, and spices. It's traditional to float three coffee beans in each drink. Molinari and Romana are well-known brands.

In the United States, schnapps are flavored liqueurs based on neutral spirits. The flavorings vary widely, and include peppermint schnapps, root beer schnapps, peach schnapps, and cinnamon schnapps. These flavored schnapps can be sweet or dry, but most are sweeter and lighter than a typical liqueur. In Germany and Scandinavia, schnapps refers to any spirit that's dry and potent, like kirsch and aquavit.

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This liqueur is made by steeping sloe berries in gin. Gordon's is a well-regarded brand.

This potent peach-flavored liqueur is made with Bourbon.

This category includes spiced rum, Goldschläger and kümmel.

This is white or dark rum that's been sweetened and flavored with vanilla and spices.

This is a sweet Italian herbal liqueur.

This is a bitter French apéritif.