St-Germain French Artisanal Elderflower Liqueur, Made with Fresh Handpicked Elderflowers, No Artificial Flavours, 20% ABV, 70cl / 700ml

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Note: Keep St. Germain out of the sun, as its color is prone to darkening considerably when exposed to light.

After posting about grammar yesterday, I had to laugh at Dictionary.com’s Word of the Day for today and especially the quote from Dan Chiasson: Got a bottle of St Germain and not sure what to do with it? This popular elderflower liqueur may be a newcomer to the scene, but it’s a must-have in your liquor cabinet. It adds a unique floral essence to the finish of any drink! This elderflower martini is so fresh and floral! Featuring homemade sweet and sour mix, gin, vodka and St Germain, it's everything bright and floral! The perfect use for this liqueur.St-Germain introduced a pop-up series, 'Salon St-Germain', based on the historic French salon, in 2020. [9] A second iteration, Fleuriste St-Germain, opened in New York City in August 2021, in collaboration with ballet dancer James Whiteside and director Laura Kim. [10] Press and awards [ edit ] I hope you will take this correction as a sign of how much I enjoy your blog. Usually I just wince and whine and sputter the correction under my breath and wonder why I bother reading anything on the internet anymore. I would really like to see you continue to grow as a writer. So even though it’s not specifically orange-flavored, all those peach and lychee notes make this one of the best margs you’ll ever drink.

You can find it online easily enough, or try Michael’s, as they’ll have a bunch of different colors. It’s caused by oxidation when the flowers aren’t completely submerged under the alcohol, so you may want to add a weight to hold them down, however, them turning brown won’t harm your liqueur.Copper had tried elderflower syrups before, but he found this fresh and fragrant infusion was different. Inspired by the drink in front of him, he started thinking about how to transport this fresh, fragrant, and floral taste into a liqueur. Elderflower season is an exciting but short lived time. Every year I try to find some way to preserve the elderflower harvest so that I can enjoy them for a longer period of time. I’ve been wanting to try making elderflower liqueur (also known as St. Germain) for some time now. This year the local elder trees were absolutely loaded with elderflowers, so I decided to make this delicious elderflower liqueur! Soon after, he tried to create an alcoholic product that captures this flavor - equally good as the syrup did. To focus on his elderflower liqueur, Rob Cooper had to leave the family business where he had been working up until then, and which produced and sold Chambord among others. -At least he remained within the industry. When was St Germain invented? 2007.With such a vintage-looking bottle, it certainly seems like it has hundreds of years of history! Possibly invented by monks in the 1500’s? Nope, a guy named Rob invented it in the 2007. (Here’s the story behind it.) St. Germain Liqueur: What It Is, And What To Do With It". HuffPost. 13 June 2012 . Retrieved 25 December 2021.

The elderflower liqueur can be consumed right away, or aged longer if desired. It will keep indefinitely! If you don’t have access to fresh elderflowers, dried elderflowers can also be used, just use about half as much as fresh. What Drinks Should You Use St Germain Liqueur In?". Archived from the original on 28 January 2017 . Retrieved 1 June 2017. Since they have earthy notes, they’ll only get better when you add the florals of elderflower. Plus, they’ll have the most amazingly intense color.St Germain is a liqueur that’s made with elderflowers, the small white flowers of an elderberry plant. With its beautiful vintage bottle, it looks like a liqueur that’s been produced for centuries by French monks like Chartreuse. But turns out, it’s a lot more modern than you might expect. Elderflowers appear before elderberries, and they arrive anytime between May through July, depending on your location and climate. Add another dash of alcohol in the form of sweet elderflower liqueur, and just imagine how intense this drink can be! The fruity flavors bring out the fresh fruits in the glass, and it adds just enough sweetness, so the white wine isn’t as dry. If you’re looking for other St. Germain recipes, Seattle based bartender Jamie Boudreau started collecting recipes and publishing them on a blog. As Chris said, St. Germain has fallen out of favor with most craft bartenders (and I’d argue has been for quite awhile), so it hasn’t been updated in a decade. But there are quite a few good recipes if you’re looking to use up a bottle.

If you’re interested in learning more about elderflower, we have a complete guide on it where you’ll learn where it comes from, how it’s made, what it tastes like, and more.Without St. Germain, this would be super yummy. That intense pomegranate taste is delightful, after all. If you’ve ever watched the Food Network, I’m sure you’ve seen bakers adding this stuff to their cakes and cupcakes. Processing the flowers turned out to be a nightmare. Pressing the pedals too hard created a bitter taste. Dehydrating or freezing them killed their aroma and flavor. The only way was to use freshly harvested blossoms and let them infuse in alcohol. But, in the end, Copper got it right and St. Germain became a tremendous success. Drillaud elderflower liqueur vs. St Germain vs. Fiorente