Curaçao
Sign in to saveliqueur made with the dried peels of the Laraha citrus fruit, grown only on the island of Curaçao
Key facts
- Type
- Liqueur
- Manufacturer
- (various)
- Introduced
- c. 18th century
- Alcohol by volume
- 15–40%
- Proof us
- 30–80° US/ 26 + 1 ⁄ 4 –70° UK
- Color
- Colorless, but often artificially colored, with the most popular hues being blue and orange
- Flavor
- Bitter and sweet orange
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- alcohol by volume
- 27.5
- native label
- Curaçao
- Commons category
- Curaçao (liqueur)
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
Curaçao (/ˈkjʊərəsaʊ, -soʊ/ KURE-ə-sow, -soh; Dutch: [kyːraːˈsʌu] ) is a liqueur flavored with the dried peel of the bitter orange variety laraha, a citrus fruit grown on the Caribbean island of Curaçao. Curaçao can be sold in numerous forms. The most common forms include the orange-hued dry curaçao and the blue-dyed blue curaçao.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Curaçao” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.