Liqueur

LIQUEUR

It can also be called Spirit, which means spirits or distilled spirits, because part of the water is concentrated and removed during the distillation process. The alcohol content in wine is relatively increased, such as brandy, whiskey, vodka, etc., all belong to this type of wine.

Liqueur generally refers to beverages prepared with natural aromatic medicinal animals and plants added to wine and having certain health-care effects. Its product characteristics are very similar to the fruit dew wine in the prepared wines classified by my country's current alcohol industry. Most of them use roots, stems, leaves, fruits and pulps of aromatic and medicinal plants as additives. Some varieties, such as egg yolk wine, use eggs as additives. Because Westerners pursue a romantic life style, liqueurs appear in pure, bright or complex colors including red, yellow, blue, and green, which can be described as colorful.

Liqueur is named after the transliteration of English Liqueur, which is also translated as "Likou" or "Lijiao". It is made by using neutral liquor such as brandy, whiskey, rum, gin, vodka or wine as the base liquor, adding juice and syrup, and then soaking various fruits or spice plants through distillation, soaking, boiling and other processes. And contain at least 2.5 sweet syrup. The sweet syrup can be sugar or honey, and most liqueurs contain more than 2.5% sweet syrup. The flavoring materials used in liqueurs are all kinds of strange, and the most common ones are divided into three categories: plants, animals, and minerals. Therefore, Liqiao wine has a fragrant smell and sweet taste, and is suitable for drinking alone before and after meals. Lijo wine has a larger proportion, so it is particularly suitable for mixing cocktails with various colors. Liqueurs have relatively high alcohol and sugar content. They are generally used after meals or to prepare cocktails in foreign countries. They have health-care functions such as soothing the stomach and refreshing the brain; or they are used as wine for cooking and dessert making.

Liqueurs have a mellow taste, bright colors and soft colors, but their respective recipes are relatively confidential. The basic brewing methods include distillation, maceration, osmosis filtration, and mixing.

The introduction to its varieties is as follows:

There are many types of liqueurs, mainly including the following categories: citrus liqueurs, cherry liqueurs, peach liqueurs, and cream liqueurs Liquor, vanilla liqueurs, coffee liqueurs. In addition to the above-mentioned categories of wines with very distinctive flavor characteristics, there are many other unique liqueurs.

● Sambuca Liqueur

The wine is black in color, has an alcohol content of 40 (volume fraction), and has an anise aroma. The spice comes from the unique fennel tree flowers. Oil, suitable for mixing with soda drinks, produced in Italy.

● Apricot Brand (Apricot Brand)

It is made from fresh apricots and French cognac. The wine is amber in color and has a fresh fruity aroma. It is produced in the Netherlands.

● Bolls Advockaat

The wine is egg yellow and opaque. It is made from egg yolk, aromatic alcohol or brandy through a special process. It is rich in nutrients and stored frozen in the dark. , origin is the Netherlands.

● Cocoa liqueur (De Cacao)

Brewed from the finest cocoa beans and pandan fruit, it comes in two colors: brown and white: brown wine is used as after-dinner wine; White wine is used for making Western-style pastries and is produced in the Netherlands.

● Coffee Liqueur

It is made from the finest coffee beans through boiling, filtering and other processes. The color of the wine is like coffee, aromatic and rich, and it is a meal. After-use wine, the origin is the Netherlands.

● Crème de Menthe

The wine body can be divided into red, green, white, etc. according to the color. It has a high sugar content, making the wine body significantly thicker. Not suitable for drinking directly, but can be used to make cocktails.