Types of Liqueurs

Liqueurs are grouped by how they are flavored, as shown in this listing of popular commercial brands. The chapters in the book follow these groupings, with recipes ranging from highly inventive originals to copycats of commercial formulas (highlighted in blue). Although it is impossible to replicate secret corporate formulas exactly, most of the copycat recipes included come fairly close.

Fruit Liqueurs

• Amabili (banana)
• Apricot (apricot)
• Bajtra (prickly pear)
• Chambord (raspberry)
• Cherry Heering (sweet cherries)
• Cointreau (orange)
• Curaçao (bitter orange)
• Gran Torres (orange peel)
• Grand Marnier (brandy and orange)
• Grapèro (pink grapefruit)
• Guavaberry (guava)
• Guignolet (wild cherries)
• Hare Vişne (sour cherries)
• Hypnotiq (tropical blend)
• Kruškovac (pear)
• Lichido (lychee)
• Lillehammer (lingonberry)
• Limoncello (lemon)
• Mandarine Napoléon (brandy and mandarin orange)
• Manzana Verde or Apple Pucker (green apple)
• Midori (melon)
• Passoã (passion fruit, mango, pineapple, coconut)
• Pisang Ambon (banana)
• Prunelle (plum)
• Sloe gin (sloe berries or buckthorn plums)
• Southern Comfort (whiskey, peach, orange)
• Triple sec (orange)

Vegetable Liqueurs

• Cynar (artichoke)
• Rhubarb (rhubarb)

Herb Liqueurs

• Absinthe (anise, fennel, hyssop, peppermint, wormwood leaves)
• Anisette (anise seed)
• Bénédictine (Cognac flavored with 27 herbs)
• Chartreuse (flavored with 130 herbs)
• Galliano (star anise, mint, ginger)
• Goldwasser (a blend of roots and herbs with flakes of 23-karat gold)
• Herbsaint (absinthe)
• Izarra (yellow, made from 32 herbs and almonds, and mint-flavored green, made from 48 herbs)
• Jägermeister (made from 56 herbs)
• Ouzo (star anise, coriander, clove, cinnamon)
• Pastis (anise, licorice)
• Pernod (anise, fennel, melissa, wormwood leaves)
• Ricard (anise, licorice, star anise)
• Sambuca (anise, star anise, licorice, elderflower)
• Strega (made from 70 herbs, including saffron and fennel)

Nut Liqueurs

• Amaretto (almond flavored, usually from the pits of stone fruits like apricots, peaches, and cherries)
• Frangelico (hazelnut)
• Kahana Royale (macadamia)
• Nocello (walnuts and hazelnuts)
• Nocino and Vin de Noix (unripe green walnuts)
• Praline (pecan)

Floral Liqueurs

Many blended herb liqueurs contain flower blossoms, but a few are made exclusively from flowers.

• Crème de rose
• Crème de violette (violet)
• Fior D’Alpe (mixed wild flowers)
• Hypnotiq Harmonie
• Lavande (lavender)
• Rosolio (rose)
• Shan Hibiscus (hibiscus and coconut)
• St-Germain (elderflower)
• Xaica (hibiscus)
• Xtabentún (from the Yucatán, made from honey from the nectar of morning glory blossoms)

Chocolate and Coffee Liqueurs

• Afrikoko (chocolate and coconut)
• Ashanti Gold (dark chocolate)
• Chéri Suisse (chocolate and cherry)
• Kahlúa (dark coffee)
• Kona Gold (Kona coffee)
• Mozart Amadé (dark chocolate with blood orange)
• Sheridan’s (split bottle with dark coffee and milk chocolate)
• Tia Maria (Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee)
• Vandermint (mint chocolate)

Cream Liqueurs

• Baileys Irish Cream (Irish whiskey and cream)
• Amarula (caramel and marula fruit)
• Advocaat (egg and vanilla)
• Dulce de Leche (caramel and cream)
• Mozart Gold Chocolate Cream (chocolate and cream)
• Voyant Chai Cream (chai, vanilla, cream)

Caramel and Honey Liqueurs

• Brandymel
• Bruadar (Scotch, honey, sloe berries)
• Eblana (coffee, honey)
• Stag’s Breath (single-malt Speyside Scotch, fermented honey)
• Yukon Jack (honey)
• Rock & Rye (caramelized rock sugar)
• Drambuie (honey and herbs)
• Wild Turkey (bourbon and honey)