# Herbal liqueur

A liqueur whose character comes chiefly from herbs, roots, bark, flowers, or spices.

Parent category: [Liqueur](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/liqueur.md)

Alcohol: 35% ABV

## Types

- [Amaro](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/amaro.md): 30% ABV. An Italian style of bittersweet herbal liqueur traditionally served as a digestif.
- [Amer Picon](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/amer-picon.md): 18% ABV. A French bittersweet orange aperitif flavoured with orange peel, gentian, and cinchona, historically central to the Brooklyn.
- [Becherovka Original](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/becherovka.md): 38% ABV. A Czech herbal liqueur with cinnamon, clove, ginger, citrus, and a bittersweet botanical finish.
- [Bénédictine](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/benedictine.md): 40% ABV. A French herbal liqueur made with 27 herbs and spices, with honeyed, citrus, pine, and almond notes.
- [Elderflower liqueur](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/elderflower-liqueur.md): 20% ABV. A floral liqueur flavoured with elderflowers, bringing perfumed blossom, citrus, and gentle sweetness.
- [Ferino Amer](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/ferino-amer.md): 39% ABV. A robust Nevada bitter-orange amer at 39% ABV, continuing the Torani Amer formula used in Basque-American Picon Punches, with rich citrus, gentle bitterness, and warm spice.
- [Galliano L’Autentico](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/galliano-lautentico.md): 42.3% ABV. A golden Italian herbal liqueur led by Mediterranean anise, juniper, musk yarrow, vanilla, citrus, and warm spice.
- [Gentian liqueur](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/gentian-liqueur.md): 20% ABV. A bittersweet herbal liqueur whose earthy, floral bitterness comes chiefly from gentian root.
- [Green Chartreuse](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/green-chartreuse.md): 55% ABV. A powerful French herbal liqueur made by the Carthusian Fathers from 130 plants, flowers, bark, roots, and spices.
- [Jägermeister](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/jagermeister.md): 35% ABV. A German herbal liqueur built from 56 herbs, roots, and spices, matured in oak for a dense bittersweet, citrus, liquorice, and baking-spice profile.
- [Kümmel](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/kummel.md): 35% ABV. A clear, sweet caraway-led spirit with supporting cumin, fennel, and anise-like spice; traditional full-proof examples keep their shape in sours.
- [Yellow Chartreuse](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/yellow-chartreuse.md): 43% ABV. A softly sweet French herbal liqueur made by the Carthusian Fathers from 130 plants, with spice, citrus, anise, and floral notes.

## References

- Canonical page: https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/herbal-liqueur
- Photograph: https://stirred.fyi/assets/ingredients/herbal-liqueur-70811aeb.webp
- Source: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:32019R0787