Bols Blue Curacao Liqueur, 50 cl

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With: Gin, blue curaçao, orange curaçao, grand marnier, orange juice, lemon juice, sugar syrup, orange bitters 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.

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

Margaritas are a popular choice for many people who drink them, but they can also be pretty dull in color. They're usually either red or orange due to the colors of their flavorings (usually Cointreau). Senior & Co, a company started in Curaçao, is the only company that has always produced its liqueur from the peels of the laraha from Curaçao. The family, Senior and Chumaceiro, started selling their liqueur in 1896 in their pharmacy in small quantities. In 1947 they bought the landhuis ("country manor") Chobolobo in Willemstad, where the distillery has since been housed. The company states that it is the only one that uses native laraha fruit, and label it Genuine Curaçao Liqueur. [10] There is no definitive evidence to confirm who actually invented the Laraha-based liqueur, but the Lucas Bols distillery certainly stake claim to it and it actually makes a whole lotta sense too. Curacaois an orange liqueur invented in the 19th century by Dutch settlers on Curaçao, an island in the Caribbean. There were originally several colors of Curaçao liqueur, including clear, blue, red, green and orange. The most popular colors today are blue and clear. The liqueur is flavored with the Laraha orange peel, a special type of orange tree that grows on the island. 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]

The Laraha ingredient that’s used in the liqueur doesn’t actually come from the actual fruit itself but from the peel. 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] 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. The Story of Blue Curaçao: Which Is, Strangely, the Other Orange Liqueur—The 9-Bottle Bar". Kitchn. Thakeray, William Makepiece (1848). Vanity Fair. London: Penguin Popular Classics. p.315. ISBN 0140620850.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 Curaçao can be sold in numerous forms, though the most common are the orange-hued dry curaçao and blue curaçao, which is dyed bright blue. 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 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 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.