What is Southern Comfort®?

Southern Comfort® is a liqueur - or alcoholic beverages flavored with various spices and stuffed with sweeteners such as sugar - produced in the United States. It has a hint of fruit, spices and whiskey to its taste and is often used to make mixed drinks. Southern Comfort® has been in production since the end of the 18th century and has been closely linked to the southeastern United States because its images on the Etiquette images antebellum mansion and plantation and were created in New Orleans. Sometimes it is called so-what.

Martin Wilkes Heron was the founder of Southern Comfort®. He was a bartender in New Orleans, but only when he moved to Memphis, Tennessee that the drink patented and began to sell it successfully. Created liqueur by adding a range of fruit - including oranges, lemons and cherries -; To high -quality bourbon, along with spices such as cloves, cinnamon and vanilla. Then he leaves the tshes to soak up to a week or more than finally adds honey or other sweetener. Many claim that the final product has a taste similar to peach.

Mixed drinks are made of Southern Comfort®. It is a popular choice to mix with sodas and other sweet drinks. One popular drink, SLoe Comform Screw, is made of sloice gin, vodka, Southern Comfort® and orange juice. Another popular drink is Manhattan, which is made from Southern Comfort®, Sweet Vermut and Bitters, and served with ice and Maraschino icing. Alabama Slammer is so-what mixed with amarett, folder, orange juice and sweet and acidic mixture.

simpler recipes simply require to-what and cola, so-what and soda water-known as old Woody-and so-what with cranberry juice. It is usually used to add an alcoholic kick to punch. Today, Southern Comfort & R.Př; It comes in several varieties in addition to the traditional version, including a pre -mixed version with lime, another mixed version with sweet tea and a mixed version with a cola.

In the United States, Southern Comfort® is available as a 100 evidence drink - that is, the liqueur is at a volume of fifty percent of alcohol. It is also available in version 70 evidence or thirty -five percent alcohol according to volume. In advance mixed liqueur versions are all 30 evidence, or fifteen percent of the volume of alcohol. The Southern Comfort® special reserve is 80 evidence or forty percent alcohol according to volume. While its origin is watching back to New Orleans and Memphis, the drink is now produced in St. Louis, Missouri.