Recommendations from ’t Bockje

What aquavit goes with

Aquavit is the Scandinavian grain or potato spirit with caraway or dill as the mandatory flavouring. It belongs at the table, not after.

Caraway and dill are exactly the herbs that are also found in Scandinavian cooking. That is why aquavit works alongside herring, salmon and heavy meat dishes like hardly any other drink does.

Part of the aquavit ages in cask and gains colour and vanilla there. You drink that one slightly less cold than the clear one.

How to serve it

Glass: A small, straight glass.
Temperature: Clear aquavit ice cold; cask aquavit cool.
Neat or mixed: Neat, with the meal, with a beer on the side.

What it goes with

herring
smoked salmon
gravad lax
smoked sausage
sauerkraut
aged cheese
pea soup

This applies to the type as a whole. What an individual bottle does is on the page of that bottle.

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Per bottle

A recommendation of its own with every bottle of aquavit

On the page of every bottle of aquavit in the shop there is a recommendation of its own: something with the meal or the drinks, a cheese and something for afterwards, with the shopping list and the preparation.

All bottles of aquavit with a recommendation