Compare and Buy Liqueur Online at Comparethedrinks. Chose by Brand/Producer including Baileys, Bols, Drambuie, Kummel and many more.For most people a liqueur is little more than a brightly-coloured cocktail ingredient or something that is drunk after a meal as a digestif. However, the truth is that there is a fascinating variety of drinks encompassed in this most diverse of categories. To be classified as a liqueur a drink must: Be based on a spirit - liqueurs can be made with everything from vodka through tequila to brandy, rum or whisky. The Types of Liqueurs are:
Fruit Liqueur: In the early days of cocktail-making orange liqueurs emerged as the most popular ingredients, figuring in a vast array of cocktails. Cointreau still remains one of the most famous liqueurs in the world - but nowadays, orange liqueurs are just a small part of a vast array of fruit liqueurs from all over the world.
Herb Liqueur: A brilliantly diverse category, encompassing the monastic liqueurs like Chartreuse alongside Italian classics such as Amaretto and Sambuca, cult drinks like Jagermeister and old stagers like Kummel. Many herb liqueurs contain dozens of different ingredients, the exact constitution and combination of which is invariably a jealously-guarded secret.
Cream Liqueur: When considering the cream liqueur category, it is often difficult to see past its most famous exponent, the brand that first invented, and then became, the entire category. But these days, despite Bailey's continued dominance, there is more choice available than ever before for those prepared to seek out the margins.
Bitters: The last few years have seen a phenomenal surge of interest in what was previously a lost category: cocktail bitters are intensely concentrated concoctions designed so that just a few drops can hugely enhance the flavour of the libation to which they are added. This is now a thriving category with new products appearing constantly.
Other Liqueurs: Liqueurs are now made in a staggering variety of flavours - in this section you will find some of the weirdest and most wonderful drinks from all corners of the globe, from everyday flavours such as coffe and vanuilla to the more esoteric delights of poppy, balsamico and Japanese Umeshu plum.
