Southern Comfort

Southern Comfort is an American liqueur with flavors of whiskey, peach, orange, vanilla and cinnamon. He is now produced by the liquor company Brown -Forman and distributed in Germany via its German subsidiary. Southern Comfort was known among other things by Janis Joplin as an advertising icon.

History

The Irish bartender Martin Wilkes Heron mixte 1874 in New Orleans cocktails, which he called Cuffs and Buttons, as a counterpart to the then-popular White Tie and Tails. In 1885 he named the cocktail into Southern Comfort; In 1889, he filled his eponymous liqueur, which he had patented in 1898, from Memphis, Tennessee. On the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, World's Fair in St. Louis in 1904, the drink won a gold medal. Heron died a few months after the start of the Prohibition era in which rested the production. 1933 took over the family of Francis Fowler recipe of Southern Comfort. After another change of ownership of the liqueur produced since 1983 by the Brown - Forman Corporation, for which he is a mainstay with Jack Daniel's. Since 1979, Southern Comfort is officially available in Germany and is currently being marketed through its subsidiary Brown -Forman Germany GmbH.

Composition

Originally Southern Comfort was a cocktail on whiskey base, today the liqueur is made ​​from neutral alcohol but with additions such as sugars and dye as well as excerpts of whiskey, peaches, oranges, and spices such as cinnamon. Whiskey instead of neutral alcohol is used in which 40 percent of Southern Comfort Reserve, a blend of Southern Comfort and six -year-old bourbon. Southern Comfort in Germany currently has 35 percent alcohol by volume, it's there but also in other drinking strengths such as 21 %, 38% and 50%.

Other products

In 2010, another liqueur Southern Comfort brand was introduced to the German market. Southern Comfort Lime tastes like Lime and has 27.5 % vol

Use

Southern Comfort is drunk neat or on the rocks; also he is today for his part ingredient in a number of cocktails (for example, Scarlett O'Hara ) and long drinks ( for example, apple juice, cherry juice, cola, lemonade, passion fruit juice, or ginger ale ).