Ferrand Dry Curacao Triple-Sec, 70cl

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Triple sec is an orange-flavored liqueur. That said, there's surprisingly a plethora of tastes when it comes to the brands. Some offer flavor notes of spices, while others are cloying oversweet or too bitter. Find one that is pleasing to your taste and well balanced in flavor.

Overall, both types of liqueurs have a tangy, tart, dry, and somewhat sharp taste. However, Curaçao has a more pronounced sweetness and bitterness. Triple Sec, on the other side, has a cleaner palate and is significantly drier. We have a much more indepth article on triple sec if you'd like to sink your teeth into this subject, but the short answer is triple sec is a dry orange liqueur made using a neutral beet sugar distillate. Dried orange peels are steeped into this neutral spirit, which is then redistilled. The result is a very intense orange flavoured spirit that's blended with more neutral spirit, sugar and water to give us triple sec. There's an ongoing discussion about whether Triple Sec and Curaçao are the same. Yet both liqueurs differ in history, ingredients, color, and taste. Depending on the other flavors in your drink, sometimes you can get away with this. A bold or aged tequila might play well with brandy based curacao like Pierre Ferrand Dry Curaçao in a Margarita. While something more subtle though, might require the use of a neutral spirit like Cointreau – which is our go to recommendation as it will work regardless.In 1896, Senior & Co. started producing Curaçao Liqueur with the Laraha orange peel. Up until the early 21st century, Senior only communicated with Curaçao Liqueur. But as the name Triple Sec became the industry standard and a product name, we now communicate with Curaçao Triple Sec. This is mainly to make it easier for consumers to understand what the product is, the same as Cointreau did in their beginning. Cointreau (since 1875) claims to have invented the name Triple Sec, based on the 3 different types of oranges they use. However, Jean Baptiste Combier also claims to have invented the term Triple Sec (triple distilled). But we’ll leave that battle to them. Is the difference between Curaçao Liqueur and Triple Sec marketing driven? All triple secs are not the same. Read the ingredients list on the label so you know just what is in that bottle of triple sec. You might be surprised at finding extra sugar or sweeteners and a few ingredients that you can't pronounce. As you can see with both Curacao and triple sec, drinks are often one of these and known by a brand name such as Cointreau or Bols. So is Cointreau the same as triple sec? Still, there are significant factors that serve as a general distinction when comparing Triple Sec and Curaçao. Let's start with their differences in history and origin. Aspect

In addition to Bols adding blue coloring, there’s some debate as to who exactly started the name Triple Sec (which in this case, you can use synonymously with curacao). Some claim it came from Cointreau, who went through multiple iterations of branding – and ultimately removed it once a flood of cheap triple sec hit the market. Others claim it was a label for the distillation process. Regardless of where it started, Triple Sec supplanted Curaçao in some name conventions, and you can now swap the names interchangeably. Typically ranges from 15% to 40%, usually below 28% for popular brands like Bols, Drillaud, and DeKuyper's Blue Curaçao.Curaçao, in turn, is best known for its vibrant blue version, Blue Curaçao. Dry Curaçao usually has an orange shade - some more intense, some less. Rarely do you come across a colorless Curaçao, too, but that's truly an exception. ABV Regarding appearance and taste, Curaçao is very similar to Triple Sec. It also is an orange liqueur with an ABV of 15 - 40%. It comes in many different (artificial) colors, but it's mainly known to be blue - Blue Curaçao. In fact, Curaçao is the forerunner of Triple Sec. Triple Sec was invented in 1834 in the kitchen of distiller Jean-Baptiste Combier and his wife, Josephine. They combined Hawaiian oranges and sweet Valencia oranges, creating a distinct flavor through their three-step distillation method.

In the early 16th century, the Dutch brought the Seville orange to Curaçao Island (the C in ABC). They wanted to grow them there and profit from the sunny climate. The Dutch West Indies Company even monopolized the island’s resources for spices. However, many established producers of Triple Sec can are at the upper end of the scale. For instance, Combier, Cointreau, and the closely related Grand Marnierall have an alcohol content of 40%. 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]

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Some consider the taste of both liqueurs identical and claim that the term secfor dry is nothing more than a marketing gag. Yet, when tasting them side by side, you can clearly detect the differences. Appearance The flavor of Triple Sec is very orange-forward and citrusy. Its strong orange aroma comes from the essential oils in the peel of premature oranges.