Baska Snaps Med Bitters 750 Bittermens From France
| Description: | History,. Bska Snaps med Malrt is an accidentally international spirit: its a Swedish recipe produced for an American company by a French distiller. And strangely, it makes perfect sense. The American company, Bittermens, is known for its bitters. The Swedish recipe is (roughly) a sweetened aquavit thats infused with wormwood, which is where the French come in. Who better to work with wormwood than an absinthe distillery?. Snaps, or schnapps, is what Scandinavians call aquavit and similar spirits. The Bska part means bitter. The full name of the product contains a word Chicago drinkers will be familiar with: Malrt. Jeppsons Malrt is an astonishingly bitter 70 proof spirit thats been a Chicago institution since 1934. (For a great background on Jeppsons, read this Wall Street Journal story). Bska Snaps is similar to Jeppsons Malrt, but to be blunt, it tastes much, much better. Both products trace their heritage to a Swedish tradition of wormwood-infused spirits. Reimersholms, a Swedish company that makes a few kinds of aquavit (including O.P. Anderson), also makes a bitter one called Bska Droppar, but it may be the only company producing wormwood aquavit in Sweden right now. Bska Snaps, which is 80 proof, is meant to be served cold, as it says on the bottle in Swedish (Serveras Kyld!), but it tastes great at room temperature. Its very bitter, but its sweetened too. It has a clear herbal depth to it that Jeppsons Malrt does notprobably from the aquavit base. Despite the wormwood (less than 10 parts per million of thujone, for the absinthe nerds out there), it doesnt taste much like absinthe. The flavor is actually a little closer to the Fernet style of bitter spirits. |
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| Price: | $ 25.99 |
| Price in original currency: | None |
Previously available from Hi-Time Wine Cellars
| Address: |
250 Ogle Street Costa Mesa, CA 92627 United States |
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| Telephone (toll-free): | 800-331-3005 |
| Telephone (regular): | 949-650-8463 |
| Fax: | 949-631-6863 |
First added to 1000 Corks on December 15, 2023.
This product was inactivated June 21, 2024.
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