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Briefly about the drink
Chartres – elite French liqueur from 130 herbs, spices, seeds, roots and flowers.
A variety of natural ingredients create a rich palette of flavors. Spicy, sweet, spicy and medicinal shades change into a bouquet of deep notes after 2, 3 sips, and herbal aromas play with nuances.
The strength of the drink varies from 40% to 72%, and the recipe for making is carefully kept secret by the holy fathers of the Carthusian order.
Interesting Facts
The history of Chartreuse liqueur is full of legends and mysteries. The marvelous tome fell into the hands of the monks of the Carthusian order near Grenoble as early as 1605. An unknown alchemist encrypted the recipe for the drink of eternal youth in the writings of the manuscript. For a long 132 years in the monastery they puzzled over the meaning of signs and numbers.
After repeated attempts to unravel the mystery, Jérôme Mobeca, the pharmacist of the monastery, nevertheless managed to read the mysterious document and created a healing elixir according to the recipe. Since that time, the drink has been marketed as “Elixir Vegetal de la Grande Chartreuse” (Grande Chartreuse Herbal Elixir). The health liqueur of the same brand has been produced as a digestif since 1764.
A lot of troubles and threats, the verdict of the French Ministry of the Interior of Napoleon Bonaparte, expulsion from France and the long, but temporary, validity of the monks in Spain (Tarragona) did not break the seal of secrecy of the drink. Since 1989 Chartreuse has been produced exclusively in Voiron, France.
Types of Chartreuse liqueur
Yellow Chartreuse
The king of liqueurs, a soft, sweet XNUMX% alcohol with saffron to give it its distinctive colour.
Green Chartreuse
The color is due to the high content of chlorophyll, the fortress is 55 degrees.
Exceptionally Prolonged Aging
Long aged liqueur in oak barrels, available in 2 versions: yellow – 42 degrees alcohol, green – 54% alcohol content. Bottles with this Chartreuse have an old design and numbering.
Vegetable elixir of the Grande Chartreuse
It is used for medicinal purposes, added to grog, tincture.
Chartreuse 900
A jubilee batch of sweet liquor, created in 1984 for the birthday of the monastery of the same name, a green version of the drug with a 47 degree strength in original numbered bottles.
Chartreuse 1605
Released for the birthday of the first healing drink. The fortress is 56 degrees.
How to drink Chartreuse
This liqueur belongs to the group of digestifs. These are dessert alcoholic drinks that are consumed after meals.
Chartreuse liqueur can be served either chilled to 10-15°C or at room temperature.
You can serve a table under Chartreuse with glasses and liquor glasses.
Drink the drug in small sips with ice or in its pure form. It is not necessary to have a bite of liquor, but if it is too strong for you, then put fruits and desserts on the table.
Cocktails with Chartreuse
green beam
– 25 ml of black Sambuca;
– 25 ml green Chartreuse liqueur.
First, pour the chilled Sambuca into the pile, and Chartreuse on top.
Chartini
– 60 ml of gin;
– 20 ml of Chartreuse green liqueur;
– 1 olive for decoration;
– crushed ice.
Shake liquid ingredients in a shaker with ice. Strain the resulting cocktail into a glass and dip an olive into it.
Test
– 10 ml of vodka;
– 10 ml of Chartreuse green liqueur;
– 10 ml of orange juice;
– 10 ml of lemon juice;
– crushed ice.
Shake all ingredients well in a shaker with ice and strain the finished drink into a glass.
Mona Lisa
– tonic;
– 40 ml of orange juice;
– 20 ml of gin;
– 20 ml of Chartreuse green liqueur;
– 20 ml of Campari;
– ice cubes
Mix juice, gin, Chartreuse and Campari in a mixing glass, then pour into a glass with ice and top up with tonic.
Jungle
– 120 ml of pineapple juice;
– 15 ml of gruel;
– 15 ml of Chartreuse green liqueur;
– a piece of pineapple for decoration;
– crushed ice.
Take a collins glass, fill it with ice, pour in the porridge, chartreuse and juice. Garnish with a slice of pineapple.
Episcopal
– 30 ml of yellow Chartreuse liqueur;
– 15 ml green Chartreuse liqueur.
Mix the liqueurs in a mixing glass, pour into a shot glass. Drink this cocktail in one gulp.
Chartreuse mousse
– 100 ml of hot coffee;
– 1 tsp green liqueur Chartreuse;
– 1 tbsp. whipped cream.
Brew the coffee, pour into a cup, then pour the Chartreuse into it and garnish with whipped cream.
Chartreuse tonic
– 180 ml of tonic;
– 20 ml of Chartreuse green liqueur;
– ice cubes
Pour Chartreuse into a glass filled with ice and top up with tonic.
Jewel
– 30 ml of gin;
– 30 ml of Chartreuse green liqueur;
– 30 ml of white dessert vermouth;
– 1 drop of orange bitter;
– 1 cocktail cherry for decoration;
– spiral of lemon peel for decoration;
– crushed ice.
Mix all liquid ingredients in a shaker, strain into a glass with ice and a zest spiral. Dip the cherry into the finished cocktail.
Fire Dragon
– 25 ml of light rum;
– 25 ml green Chartreuse liqueur.
Mix the rum with the liqueur in a shot glass and set it on fire. The cocktail is drunk burning through a straw. Another use is also possible – set fire to a cocktail, blow it out and drink it in one gulp.
The composition of the digestif Chartreuse
Since the monopoly of the production of the drink has been assigned since 1970 to the monks of the Carthusian Order. The recipe for the liqueur is kept secret and cannot be patented. Of course, no one has yet revealed the secret of the exclusive and original drug, but in the “Encyclopedic Dictionary” edited by Brockhaus and Efron of 1890-1907 there is a version of Chartreuse.
It mentions the following ingredients:
Orange peels – 100 g
Musk grains – 50 g
Pomeranian fruit – 50 g
Ceylon cinnamon – 30 g
Cardamom – 30 g
Cinchona peels – 100 g
Irnaya grass – 150 g
Celery seeds – 30 g
Angel seeds – 125 g
White ginger – 30 g
Black pepper – 10 g
Jamaican pepper – 30 g
Fresh lemon mint – 250 g
Cloves – 30 g
Irny root – 30 g
Angel Roots – 30 g
Tonkin beans – 25 g
Muscat color – 30 g
Blue St. John’s wort – 125 g
Nutmeg – 50 g
Alpine Chernobyl – 125 g
Undiluted wine alcohol – 30 l
Soft spring water – 10 l
Sugar – 40 kg
Method of preparation
Herbal ingredients are laid out on a special copper sieve.
The sieve is placed in a distillation flask.
The flask with the contents of 8 hours is heated.
Alcohol in a circle after cooling is returned back to the flask.
Then the liquid is filtered along with 200 g of burnt magnesia.
Next, sugar and honey are added.
Water is poured up to a volume of 100 liters.
It is also worth remembering that the original Chartreuse does not contain artificial components.
Healing properties of the drink of eternal health
Initially, liquor was intended as a drug for all diseases. It really improves well-being and helps to cure many ailments. Chartreuse is taken from such ailments:
Digestive problems.
Prostration.
Diseases of the biliary tract and liver.
Slow metabolism.
Frequent viral diseases, colds.
Decreased immunity.
Migraines and headaches.
Relevance: 07.09.2017
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