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Chartreuse - Green Chartreuse and Yellow Chartreuse Only two Chartreuse monks know the identity of the 130 plants, how to blend them and how to distill them into this world famous liqueur. Milder and sweeter than the famous Green Chartreuse, Yellow Chartreuse was introduced to the world in 1838. It also is presented in the traditional Chartreuse liqueur bottle embossed with the seal of La Grande Chartreuse. www.chartreuse.fr /pa_green&yellow_uk.htm   (175 words)

Chartreuse Yellow chartreuse is a pale golden color, extremely sweet, and tastes roughly like plum wine with a touch of honey, or perhaps a delicate version of Benedictine (which is probably related.) Green chartreuse is fiery; the shade of green actually named for this liquor denotes an intense herbal taste vaguely reminiscent of absinthe. Green chartreuse is particularly loved in the goth scene because of it's efficiency; a very small quantity can maintain a buzz for most of an evening, and a larger quantity can take the sharp edges off of everything. Yellow chartreuse is not as popular in the goth scene as its sister liquors; there is nothing particularly wrong with it, but the others outshine it in every way. www.nycgoth.com /more/chartreuse   (468 words)

AllRefer.com - liqueur (Alcoholic Beverages) - Encyclopedia Liqueur can be produced by either macerating the flavoring elements in alcohol, which is then distilled or by percolation, which passes heated alcohol through the flavorings. Indeed, many famous liqueurs, notably benedictine and chartreuse, were invented by monks experimenting with herbs and other plants in the search for medicines. Both Cointreau and Grand Marnier are types of curaCao, a liqueur flavored with the dried peel of the green oranges from the West Indian island of CuraCao. reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/liqueur.html   (328 words)

Chartreuse (liqueur) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The liquor is named after the Grande Chartreuse monastery where it is produced, which in turn is named after the Chartreuse Mountains, the region in France where the monastery is located. Green Chartreuse (110 proof or 55%, and from which the name of the color is derived), a naturally green liqueur flavored with extracts from 130 plants. Chartreuse VEP (Vieillissement Exceptionnellement Prolongé) is made using the same processes and the same secret formula as the traditional liqueur, and by extra long ageing in oak casks it reaches an exceptional quality. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chartreuse_(liqueur)   (910 words)

Wine Review Online - Venerable Liqueurs Chartreuse was first produced in 1605 as a digestive for the cloistered monks of the Charthusian monastery near Grenoble, France. Chartreuse is made in two styles: the original yellow, at 40 percent alcohol, and the green, a stronger potion at 55 percent alcohol. A reliable producer of true-fruit liqueurs is Marie Brizzard, a French firm that covers the broad spectrum of fruit-based liqueurs including Parfait Amour, an exotic blend of citrus oils and the essence of violets. www.winereviewonline.com /boyd_on_liqueurs.cfm   (1476 words)

Chartreuse - Homedistiller   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) Chartreuse is a strong and famous French liqueur composed of distilled wine alcohol flavored with various herbal extracts. The color chartreuse is a green and slightly yellow color resembling that of the Green Chartreuse beverage. The monks intended their liqueur to be used as medicine; it has 71% (vol.) alcohol (142° proof) and is colored with chlorophyll. homedistiller.org /wiki/index.php/Chartreuse   (479 words)

Chartreuse Green V.E.P. 1.0L This herbal liqueur is produced by monks of the Carthusian order whose magnificent monastery is situated in the French Alps. Chartreuse is the only liqueur to be aged in oak vats - and the only one to give its name to a color! Chartreuse V.E.P. (Vieillissement Exceptionnellement Prolongé) is made using the same secret formula as the traditional liqueur, with the addition of extra long ageing in oak casks until mellowed to an exceptional flavor. www.internetwines.com /rws23800.html   (216 words)

Spirits and Alcoholic Beverage Guide at Epicurious.com In simplest terms, a liqueur — sometimes known as a cordial —; is a flavored, sweetened spirit. The "old" liqueurs that have survived for hundreds of years are elegant tasting, enticing distillations, macerations, or percolations of a variety of flavorings, including herbs, fruits, nuts, seeds, peels, beans, pods, and spices. A popular orange-flavored liqueur from France is bittersweet Cointreau, originally made in the Cointreau family distillery, which was set up after the French Revolution in the historic Loire Valley town of Angers. www.epicurious.com /drinking/spirits/liqueur   (1519 words)

Liqueur Drink Recipes Liqueurs are sweet alcoholic liquor drinks which are flavoured with a variety of different ingredients and come in a variety of different colors. Curacao is a liqueur flavored with the dried peel of the green oranges from the West Indian island of Curacao and is primarily used as an exotic colouring agent in cocktails and other mixed drinks. Chartreuse is an aromatic green or yellow liqueur flavored with Alpine herbs, orange peel, hyssop and peppermint which is made at the Grande Chartreuse, a Carthusian monastery near Grenoble, France. www.liqueur-drink-recipes.org.uk   (2201 words)

Lindsey Rawlings, Chartreuse Chartreuse jig tails, chartreuse spinners, chartreuse crank baits: all types of lures that employ a yellowish green hue to entice the scaly beings that live at the bottom of the lake. The liqueur is still only made by the Chartreuse monks at a distillery close to their monastery in France; however, this unique beverage is available even here in Ontario at our local LCBO. I never would have guessed that chartreuse is a bright yellowish green alcoholic beverage that easily slides down the back of your throat, as well as, a small flashy fishing lure that you can cast into the unknown depths of the deep blue lake. www.womenanglers.us /lindsey_chartreuse.html   (624 words)

Chartreuse Wine Background and Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) Green Chartreuse is the more powerful of the two, while the yellow is a bit minty and sweeter. As the fame of Chartreuse spread, even tsars demanded Chartreuse be served at state functions. Three monks are the sole holders of the secret recipe, and it is due to their efforts that the rest of the world enjoys this fine liqueur. www.lisashea.com /wine/types/bl_chartreuse.htm   (217 words)

Classic Liquors - Chartreuse When Bruno and his six companions arrived in the Chartreuse Mountain in 1084, the area, while ideal for monastic solitude, was a wilderness not easily accessible and not favorable to habitation. As in all monasteries, at La Grande Chartreuse there was an apothecary, Brother Jerome Maubec, who served the medical needs of the monastery and the residents of the local area with remedies made from local herbs, plants, spices and other ingredients. By the beginning of the 20th century, millions of bottles of Chartreuse liqueurs were being sold all over the world. www.classicliquors.com /chartreuse.htm   (1590 words)

Green Chartreuse An unknown alchemist of the 16th century first concocted the seductive brew, and it is rumoured that the essences of around 130 different plants were used in the distilling process of the drink. This secret was kept within the monastery walls until the foundation of the Chartreuse liqueur label in Paris in 1605. Over a century later, in 1737, Jerome Maubec, an apothecary monk at the Chartreuse monastery, refined the recipe of the liqueur to create what he called 'the vegetable elixir of la Grande Chartreuse', which was 71% proof. www.angelfire.com /jazz/louxsie/green.html   (856 words)

Chartreuse Liqueurs - Food Reference Beverage Facts Chartreuse, green or yellow, are two French liqueurs shrouded in secrecy much like other unique products in the world. The original Elixir Vegetal de la Grande Chartreuse ran to 71 percent ABV and proved to be too potent for monks who adapted the recipe to make a milder liqueur (Green Chartreuse); its success was immediate throughout Europe. Chartreuse liqueurs consist of 130 plants, herbs, roots, leaves, barks, brandy, distilled honey and sugar syrup. www.foodreference.com /html/artchartreuseliqueurs.html   (597 words)

Liqueur : Liquers Chartreuse Curaçao Cointreau Representative of this were oranges, and, amongst the liqueurs, Curaçao, made of bitter oranges, the original nut-sized oranges. In this was the liqueur maker obtains the alcoholate, the aromatic base. Even if these liqueurs enjoy great popularity as an ingredient of long drinks or cocktails, they show their true worth when drunk as a digestif. www.barkeeper.ie /3page.asp?SubPage=50   (831 words)

Herb A captivating liqueur, it is a unique marriage of hand picked botanicals from Provence and carefully selected aromatic herbs and spices from around the world. Jägermeister ("hunt master") is a German bitter liqueur that is a complex blend of 56 herbs, fruits and spices. This is a bourbon liqueur the is 50% alcohol by proof. www.internetwines.com /spirits-liqueur-herb.html   (2713 words)

Strat's Place - Martin Field - Clean Green - Mellow Yellow Jean-Marc Roget, president of Chartreuse, was in town recently and we savoured a glass or two of Green as he told me the gospel according to Chartreuse, and an interesting tale it is. Green Chartreuse (55 per cent alcohol) was developed by Cartusian monks in 1738 from a secret (aren't they all?) recipe known as "the elixir of long life" donated to them in 1605 by an associate of King Henry IV. When the new owners attempted to continue production of Chartreuse it was but a pale imitation of the real thing - the monks had smuggled the recipe to their new home in Tarragona, Spain. www.stratsplace.com /martin/mello_yellow.html   (557 words)

liqueur — Infoplease.com Both Cointreau and Grand Marnier are types of curaçao, a liqueur flavored with the dried peel of the green oranges from the West Indian island of sometimes referred to as liqueurs, are not members of this category. chartreuse - chartreuse, liqueur made exclusively by Carthusians at their monastery, La Grande Chartreuse,... www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0829939.html   (279 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) La Grande Chartreuse is famous for its liqueur. Liqueur Chartreuse is made only by Carthusian Monks of La Grande Chartreuse near Grenoble, France. Chartreuse today is still made from 130 Alpine herbs according to an ancient 1605 formula. www.unc.edu /~svetlana/pages/chartreuse3.htm   (56 words)

Cooking tour in France: culinary vacation, food and wine tour for gay travelers and friends You will visit the Chartreuse Correrie, a museum in a monastery, and then walk in the peaceful surroundings of the Chartreuse monastery where the Chartreux monks still live today. We will then visit the Chartreuse cellars, the longest liqueur cellar in the world, where you will learn all about the making of this world famous beverage. This is where, from a secret recipe guarded by the monks for centuries, the Chartreuse liqueur has been produced from over 130 plants. www.venture-out.com /france07.htm   (1203 words)

CHARTREUSE - Green - French Liqueur : Buy online @ TheDrinkShop.com Green Chartreuse is the only liqueur in the world with a completely natural green colour. They are also the only ones who know which plants they have to macerate to produce the natural green and yellow colours, and they alone supervise the slow ageing in oak casks. Traditionally considered an after dinner drink, Chartreuse is more and more being enjoyed as a long drink. www.thedrinkshop.com /products/nlpdetail.php?prodid=297   (173 words)

sendwine.com - Cordials & Liqueurs: Chartreuse Yellow Liqueur 750ml Deliveries are handled via our network of thousands of local liquor stores and via special courier services both in the USA and around the world. Chartreuse is made only by Carthusian Monks of La Grande Chartreuse near Grenoble, France. Chartreuse is sold in America as a Green or Yellow Liqueur, the latter being sweeter and milder. www.sendwine.com /id104343list36product.html   (261 words)

Chartreuse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chartreuse, a color halfway between yellow and green on the color wheel Chartreuse (liqueur), a brand of liqueur produced in the Chartreuse monastery The Grande Chartreuse, a Carthusian monastery in the Chartreuse mountains en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chartreuse   (135 words)

Grande Chartreuse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It is located in the Chartreuse Mountains, to the north of the city of Grenoble, in the commune of Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse in the Isère département of France. The quiet, serenity, and piety of the place contrasted with what he saw as the violent emerging age of machinery, and the monastic calm became, for him, the susurrations of a dying world. The Grand Chartreuse was also written of in William Wordsworth's The Prelude, Book VI and John Ruskin's Praeterita. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grande_Chartreuse   (230 words)

SendLiquor.com - Cordials & Liqueurs: Chartreuse Yellow Liqueur 750ml Chartreuse is made only by Carthusian Monks of La Grande Chartreuse near Grenoble, France. Chartreuse today is still made from 130 alpine herbs according to an ancient 1605 formula. Chartreuse is sold in America as a Green or Yellow Liqueur, the latter being sweeter and milder. www.sendliquor.com /id104343list36product.html   (384 words)

CocktailDB: The Internet Cocktail Database | green Chartreuse Proprietary potent classic French high proof multi-herbal monastic liqueur of the green variety. Only three Carthusian monks know the formula of 130 herbs and flowers for the 110 proof Chartreuse at any given time. It is still produced today (now in Voiron) on monastery property as it has been since 1764. www.cocktaildb.com /ingr_detail?id=195   (113 words)

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