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    Struggling with the cassis...

    Liqueurs, then. Not necessarily the raspberry-flavoured French one of the thread title, but you can talk about that if you like.

    Italian restaurants sometimes give you a complimentary slug of Limoncello as you leave, which is nice. Is that a liqueur, techically? Doesn't seem gooey enough.

    Amaretto. That's one, definitely, right? I like that.

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    My local curry house gives out complimentary Amarettos or, if you're particularly unlucky, a cheap over-sweet Baileys knock-off. It's enough to make you feel like chewing on one of those lemon-scented microwaved hand towels to lose the taste.

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      #3
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      I like a drop of this stuff every now and then:



      It's called Licor Beirão, made from various herbs and spices, it's nice to drink in the winter.

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        Chartreuse. Always a favourite, green for preference but yellow's OK too. At my stepdaughter's wedding in Savoie we had Chartreuse ice-cream, very nice.

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          Oh man. I LOVE liqueurs. The best ones in my opinion are the herby ones, or flowery ones. All perfumed and delicious.

          My favourites:

          Chartreuse (green for preference) (France)
          Krupnik (Poland)
          Rose petal vodka liqueur (Poland)
          Liqueur de violette/Parfait Amour (France)

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            #6
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            I swear I posted before I saw AdC had used the same exact phrase!

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              I hate liqueurs. When I go to Paris, I always eat in the same place because it's near my hotel, and last time they decided to give me something called grappa. It stopped me sleeping. I think one chocolate containing this stuff would have been pushing it.

              Never again.

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                #8
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                This stuff is just beautiful:

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                Lapponia Lakka, made from Cloudberries. It just tastes like some kind of nectar.

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                  Tubby, from what i've had of grappa, it seems to be a byproduct of some infernal ill-advised industrial process. It's the bottle of liqueur that stays untouched apart from the initial shot for several months, in the house where you know that the inhabitants would drink vomit from a tinkers sock, but just won't touch this shit.

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                    As intimated on the Sorrento thread, I can't be doing with licquers. End-of-the-evening shorts really shouldn't be that sickly sweet - you want a peaty, smokey whisky. A nice dark caribbean rum is as sweet as it should get.

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                      #11
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                      Cassis? Raspberry?

                      Tubby, you always go the same restaurant in Paris?

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                        #12
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                        I like a bit of Drambuie. An there's a fantastic honey liqueur from Germany (Bärenjäger, or something) which, unsurprisingly, produces the most tremendous headache.

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                          #13
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                          Grappa's a spirit not a liqueur.

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                            #14
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                            Indeed it is (and good grappas can be glorious).

                            Tubby looks to have reached Hobbesian levels of wrongness on several points in that post.

                            Not a particular fan of liqueurs myself, being more of a spirit person (and more a wine guy than anything else), but there is something intrinsically perfect about a good limoncello served cold on a terrace overlooking the Mediterranean. Unfortunately, the majority of limoncello sold here isn't very good, and we don't live on the Mediterranean.

                            Sardinian mirtillo is also ace (ask Spangles), and our favourite trattoria does a homemade dark chocolate liqueur that is exquisite (especially as they refuse to accept payment for it).

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                              #15
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                              Drambuie or its feistier cousin Glayva are cockle-warming favourites of mine.

                              Fond memories of Underberg in its paper wrapped little bottles as well.

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                                It's nice to buy the odd bottle of Jagermeister when there's money jangling about; the fact that those Jagermeister cooling/dispensing machines are popping up in bars all over the place give me the impression I might be copping to philistinism akin to saying insurance company muzak is some of my favourite tunes. But bollocks to that, it's lovely stuff.

                                And Unicum Zwack, but it seems in short supply around Salford way.

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                                  #17
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                                  Why drink Jagermeister when Benylin is cheaper?

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                                    saucy tramp! wrote:
                                    And Unicum Zwack, but it seems in short supply around Salford way.
                                    That just sounds like an Eastern European porn empire.

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                                      #19
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                                      Just wait until you see the posters:



                                      Great bottle, intriguing name, but not to my taste.

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                                        #20
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                                        'a legjobb'? kinky.

                                        i only discovered a taste for the stuff after there was a bottle in my dad's study for years that no one would touch; i cracked into it the day i finished high school, and realised it's bloody brilliant.

                                        but then i do like it medicinal.

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                                          #21
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                                          Crikey, EvilC. Didn't realise that stuff had gotten beyond Alko shops. Have you tried the lingonberry version? That induced vomiting once, although I was grateful for the second wind that came afterwards.

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                                            #22
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                                            a legjobb = "the best"

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                                              #23
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                                              Drambuie, Glayva, Sambucca of any brand or colour, Southern Comfort, Cointreau.... the list is endless

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                                                #24
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                                                I'll basically drink anything, because booze is fantastic. But liqueurs are my blind spot.

                                                Except in mixed drinks, I guess: a shot of cassis in a kir royale, or grenadine in a Harvey Wallbanger, or whatever.

                                                Patent aperitifs, now: they're a different kettle of fish. I think I've defended Campari, in particular, against an onslaught of criticism on here.

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                                                  Ursus, I suppose I should try other restaurants- the country is rumoured to have something called a gastronomic culture. It's just that smoking was a real pain in all the rest of them. Anyway, I'm there for the Louvre.

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