Descriptions and reviews of all the weird, wild and wonderful tipple we’ve tried from our travels!
Have you ever had a cocktail or other drink that reminded you of wonderful travel memories? Over the years I’ve had several cocktails that I associated with specific places I’ve visited. Now, whenever I have those drinks, it takes me back to those destinations. With the current state of the world, I’ve really been missing…
Have you ever tried Icelandic Schnapps before? How about Icelandic Schnapps flavoured with moss? No? Then let me introduce you to Fjallagrasa Icelandic Schnapps – the liqueur flavoured with Cetaria Islandica, a type of lichen that grows in Iceland. This was one of the most interesting bottles of liqueur my husband and I purchased in…
One of the things my husband and I love to shop for on vacation is liqueur. Hooch. Booze. Tipple. Whatever you want to call it. You can find the strangest and most wonderful alcohol-based drinks in other parts of the world that you could never hope to find back home. Sometimes, with good reason. And…
Yes, I know, two Denmark posts in a row. But my husband and I started binge-watching Vikings on the History channel a few weeks ago. So it seemed only appropriate to talk about one of the drinks we bought in Denmark last year: Viking Blod. When we visited the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, we…
It’s been a bitterly cold week here in Edmonton, with the windchill hovering around -30 C. So what better way to keep warm than to have a wee dram of whisky? When you think of whisky, countries like Scotland or Ireland most likely come to mind. Japan probably wouldn’t even register in the top five…
Of all the liquors that could be made in Iceland, I didn’t expect gin to be one of them. Yet there it was, on the shelf in one of the liquor stores in Reykjavik when we visited last year. This was Vor Icelandic Gin. It looked too interesting not to buy it and give it a…
Here we are again, time for another liqueur review! This time I’m reviewing a liqueur from Germany called Kabänes Halbbitter. (As a side note, if you see the second “A” in Kabanes without an umlaut accent over it, as it has on the label, you’ll see it expressed as Kabaenes.) We purchased this bottle in…
A few years ago Mark and I spent three weeks in Tanzania. And we spent two of those weeks on a group safari tour. One day while shopping, we purchased a bottle of a local spirit called Konyagi to share with our tour group. It was interesting enough that we purchased two more bottles of…