{"id":882,"date":"2008-02-15T16:31:57","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T16:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cocktailians.com\/2008\/02\/st-germain-elde.html"},"modified":"2008-02-15T16:31:57","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T16:31:57","slug":"st-germain-elde-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/?p=882","title":{"rendered":"St. Germain Elderflower Liqueur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/kosmonaut.net\/Cocktailians\/2008\/February\/stgermain.jpg\" \/>I&#8217;ve been seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stgermain.fr\">St. Germain Elderflower liqueur<\/a> popping up on cocktail menus everywhere.&nbsp; St. Germain is a handcrafted artisinal liqueur from France made from elderflowers, which grow wild in most of Europe and have a short blooming period.&nbsp; Historically, it&#8217;s been difficult to turn elderflowers into alcohol, but the makers of St. Germain discovered a method.&nbsp; They won&#8217;t divulge it, though &#8211; it&#8217;s a secret. <\/p>\n<p>Since St. Germain is made in small batches, it&#8217;s a bit hard to find sometimes.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve seen a few bottles at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevmo.com\">BevMo<\/a> and my favorite liquor store in San Francisco, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.klwines.com\">K&amp;L Wines<\/a>.&nbsp; &nbsp;It comes bottled in a beautiful Art Deco-style bottle, which looks like a lovely addition to any bar.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, I had the chance to try it for the first time at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slowclub.com\/\">Slow Club<\/a> in San Francisco.&nbsp; I ordered a <strong>Bicyclette<\/strong>, which is a signature Slow Club cocktail with St. Germain and sparkling wine, and served in a champagne glass with a curl of orange peel.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing I noticed was the scent.&nbsp; It smelled very delicate, like grapefruit, almost. It didn&#8217;t taste like grapefruit, though.&nbsp; It&#8217;s hard to describe the taste, but it was somewhat tart and yet sweet, with definite floral and fruity notes.&nbsp; The cocktail was delicious.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m definitely going to be adding a bottle to my bar and experimenting with this liqueur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been seeing St. Germain Elderflower liqueur popping up on cocktail menus everywhere.&nbsp; St. Germain is a handcrafted artisinal liqueur from France made from elderflowers, which grow wild in most of Europe and have a short blooming period.&nbsp; Historically, it&#8217;s been difficult to turn elderflowers into alcohol, but the makers of St. Germain discovered a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ingredients"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}