Recommendations from ’t Bockje

What liqueur goes with

Liqueur is distilled with sugar and flavour added: fruit, herbs, nuts, coffee or cream. That sweetness determines where it fits and how you serve it.

The sweetness in a liqueur is not a side issue but the main point. It makes it heavier on the tongue than an ordinary distilled spirit of the same strength, and it calls for a small glass and a small amount.

The rule that always holds with sweet: what you put next to it must be at least as sweet as the liqueur itself. If a drier dessert stands next to it, that dessert tastes sour and flat.

How to serve it

Glass: A small tulip glass or a liqueur glass of three to five centilitres.
Temperature: Fruit and herb liqueur cool, around ten degrees. Cream and coffee liqueur from the fridge; it becomes syrupy and that is part of it.
Neat or mixed: Neat after dinner, or as the sweet half in a cocktail. In a mix, half a measure is often enough already.

What it goes with

chocolate cake
tiramisu
vanilla ice cream
apple pie
coffee after dinner
nuts and dried fruit
mature cheese with honey

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

With every bottle of liqueur, a recommendation of its own

The page of each bottle of liqueur in the shop has its own recommendation: something with the meal or with drinks, a cheese and something for afterwards, with the shopping list and the preparation.

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