How to drink sambuku

Sambuca, who came to us from Italy, representsAn anise liquor, in which are added spices, extracts from elderberry and fragrant herbs. It is 35-42% fortress. Depending on the components it contains, it can be transparent, brown or red and even black. In this case, the black sambuca has a deep dark color due to the addition of liquorice and licorice extract, and its taste is somewhat different.

There are many ways how to drink sambuca. Let's consider some of them.

1. Con mosca (the traditional Italian way). Drink is used in its pure form as an aperitif. At the same time, three coffee beans are added to it, symbolizing wealth, health and happiness, which are gnawed after the drink is drunk. It should be remembered that the drink is strong enough.

2. Sambuca with champagne (1: 3). In the heated champagne is added the ignited sambuca. The man inhales the drinks and drinks it with the mixture.

3. How to drink sambuku "Extreme". Liqueur is typed in the mouth, but not swallowed, while the lips are wiped dry. The head should be thrown back, open the mouth and bring a lit match to it. When the fever is felt, the mouth is closed and the drink is swallowed.

4. Cocktail "Fiery". In a glass of wine, several alcoholic beverages are poured in ascending order of their strength: liquor, then champagne, then sambuca, vodka and absinthe. Everything is ignited and used through a tube. Before you drink sambuku, you need to stock up on lemon juice.

5. Sambuca with a strong effect. To make it, you need two glasses. One of them pours thirty grams of sambuki, set it on fire and turns it in the axis so that the glass does not burst. Then the drink is poured into another glass, and the first is turned over and put on a napkin, through which a tube is inserted. Sambuku is drunk and inhales her vapors through a straw from the second glass.

6. How to drink sambuku at home. A small ceramic kettle is heated with boiling water and immediately poured into 50 grams of sambuki. Shake, pour into a glass and drink. In this case, it is necessary to exhale the air and breathe in through the tip of the teapot, where there was a drink.

7. Cocktail "Hiroshima." To make it, you need to take twenty grams of sambuki, bailis, absinthe and five grams of grenadine and gently pour into the glass layers. Then the top layer is ignited, heated for half a minute and drunk with a tube, beginning with the lower layer.

8. How to drink sambuku in a frozen form. A bottle with a drink must be frozen before ice formation and served with orange or lemon wedges.

In addition to the above methods of consumptionthis liqueur, there are still some. For example, a sambuk can be drunk, diluted with ice water. In this case, it will become cloudy, since it contains insoluble essential oils, or with milk (washing down, not mixing).

Sambuca can also be set on fire in a glass, throughsome time to put out and immediately drink until it has cooled down, or add it instead of sugar in coffee. It is interesting that the sambuk perfectly matches with coffee. The latter emphasizes and softens its taste and aroma. Therefore, on the shelves of shops you can find a liqueur, infused with coffee beans. At home, instead of coffee beans, you can use a coffee liqueur, which is poured into a glass before pouring the ignited sambuca.

Thus, now you have learned how tocorrectly and with what to drink sambuku. It is only necessary to follow several recommendations. For example, you should not drink liquor on an empty stomach, because it is strong enough. Do not drink a burning sambuca and you should gently inhale its vapors so as not to get burns. And most importantly - to know the measure, because only then you can enjoy this great drink with a sweet taste, which has a thin and light flavor, giving off lemon.