Southern Comfort® 100 Proof Whiskey Liqueur, 70 cl, ABV 50%

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Southern Comfort® 100 Proof Whiskey Liqueur, 70 cl, ABV 50%

Southern Comfort® 100 Proof Whiskey Liqueur, 70 cl, ABV 50%

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In the United States, Southern Comfort is available as 42 US proof (21% ABV), 70 US proof (35% ABV), 100 US proof (50% ABV), and in Australia it is 60 US proof (30% ABV). Varieties including additional flavorings, such as lime and caramel, were introduced by Brown–Forman in the latter years of their ownership, but were discontinued by Sazerac. [5] Eggnog products [ edit ]

Pour Southern Comfort into a glass filled with ice and then add ginger beer. Stir and garnish with the lime wedge and mint leaves. Frozen Hurricane Southern Comfort Product Listings 2019 Walmart. Retrieved November 28, 2019, from https://archive.today/20191127191243/https://www.walmart.com/search/?query=southern%20comfort. Heron moved to Memphis, Tennessee in 1889, patented his creation, and began selling it in sealed bottles with the slogan "None Genuine But Mine" [8] and "Two per customer. No Gentleman would ask for more." Southern Comfort won the gold medal at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. No. Southern Comfort isn’t a whiskey or bourbon. It is a liqueur, a distilled spirit that is sweetened with various flavors and extracts. The original formula and the current formula use whiskey as the base for this whiskey liqueur, but for some years a neutral spirit was used. What do you mix with Southern Comfort? Stephens, Caleb (August 12, 2018). "Here are the top 20 best-selling whiskey brands in America". Orlando Business Journal . Retrieved September 9, 2019.Produced using neutral spirit and over 100 ingredients, 'Soco' matures for eight months prior to bottling. It is today enjoyed as America’s “Take it easy Drink”. Mason, Ashley (December 20, 2016). "The Great Eggnog Taste Test That Almost Killed Us". Bon Appétit. The origin story of the brand, like all good origin stories, is shrouded in the mists of time, and as will become apparent, somewhat contradictory. For many years Martin Wilkes Heron was believed to have created Southern Comfort in Memphis in or around 1890. Census records and directories appear to show that Heron had lived and worked in St Louis, possibly as a store porter and later clerk, and definitely from 1883 in the liquor business working for A M Hellman & Co, one of the largest companies in the Southern states, “renowned” according to the press, “for its best brands of whiskey” (Heron was an old friend of Lewis Hellman, and would return to St Louis from Memphis to act as a pall bearer at his funeral in 1901). The singer-songwriter was famously a fan of Southern Comfort and regularly appeared on stage with a bottle in hand. To thank her for the free publicity, Southern Comfort bought Joplin a lynx fur coat and matching hat. This drink was called Cuffs and Buttons. While this isn’t necessarily a bad name for a drink, it doesn’t have the ring to it that Southern Comfort does. The name was eventually changed, and that wasn’t all.

Is there a more perfect name out there in the beverage world than Southern Comfort? Those two words alone conjure up strong feelings of southern hospitality, good times, and friendship.

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Southern Comfort Original is the one we all grew up with. This 70 proof (35% alcohol by volume) whiskey liqueur comes in two main sizes: It has the same golden brown color, the same type of bottle, and is probably found in the same section as bourbon in your local liquor store. Southern Comfort is something different.

According to evidence filed in a tax dispute in 1945 Fowler (quite likely with the chemist Holzmark) had discovered a ‘secret formula’ in 1934 for a flavouring that could be used to produce Southern Comfort. Whisky for the compound was provided by the Merchants Distilling Corporation of Terre Haute, Indiana. In 1941 a new flavouring concentrate, “a superior one in that it could be mixed by anyone and did not require ingredients made non-obtainable by the war” was created following a year’s research and development, by Fowler’s eldest son, Francis Fowler III, whilst working for Caligrapo. Caligrapo (now owned jointly by Fowler’s three sons) retained the rights to the recipe and was contracted to supply the concentrate to what was now the Southern Comfort Corporation, the name ‘Midland Distilleries’ having fallen foul of the law. Caligrapo continued to supply the concentrate up until the acquisition of the brand by the Brown-Forman Corporation in 1979, who also acquired Fowler’s secret formula.

For many years SoCo didn’t even contain whiskey.

Heron was recalled as “that high priest of the temple … the alchemist who found and compounded the ingredients and supervised their merging and mingling with proud paternal devotion.” His small “superlatively charming” bar sold no beer, simply the best bourbons and Scotches, and ‘the Comfort’, variously described as “the jewel in this setting” and “incomparable and unique” served with “punctilious ceremony”. On a silver slaver, a tall, stemmed glass, a home-made macaroon on a small China plate to accompany the libation, and silver tongs to drop a preserved peach or apricot into the goblet, and “then from the amphora the nectar was poured in solemn silence.” As with a Dukes Martini it “was a rule of the house, as unswerving as the supreme law of the land, that a second Southern Comfort might be had, but never a third. The regulation, it appears, was salutary.” The famous long-serving Pennsylvania senator Boise Penrose was said to have drunk two before breakfast, and three after. The effect “liquid gold, mellerin’ the heart, and puttin’ a song o’ thanksgivin’ on the lips.” Would you believe that Southern Comfort has ties to the American Film Institute’s top 100 films? That’s right the current number 4 film on the AFI’s list is “Gone with the Wind” whose main character is Scarlett O’Hara. a b c Simonson, Robert (May 8, 2017). "Surprise! Southern Comfort Has No Whiskey. But Soon It Will". The New York Times . Retrieved May 8, 2017. I remember that Southern Comfort appeared like a shining beam of light in my largely monochrome teenage years in the late 1960s and 1970s. Don’t believe all that ‘swinging sixties’ stuff. Life was still drab; colour TV was only an occasional treat for those who could (which my parents certainly couldn’t) afford the expensive rented receivers. Explorations of alcohol were mostly confined to surreptitious half-pints of mild and bitter in otherwise deserted village pubs, and perhaps stolen sips of spirits at house parties. Southern Comfort 100 Proof is a perfect end to the Nashville Tailgate Taste Test. You’ll always drink it to taste it, but you’ll never want to drink more than you can handle.

Records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie. If your only exposure to “SoCo” is an ill-conceived shot you sort of remember taking one time, it’s time to give the spirit a closer look. From humble beginnings to WWII-era patriotism, Southern Comfort has a storied history. Here are seven things you should know about the famous southern liqueur.Heron originally named his liqueur Cuffs & Buttons. Depending on which version of history you believe, this was either a reference to the ingredients he used for the infusion — citrus peel (cuffs) and cloves (buttons) — or a nod to another popular liqueur of the time, Hat and Tails.



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