Boonekamp
Boonekamp is a bitter spirit of the gastric bitter type . It is also the basis of mixed drinks such as the velvet collar .
description
The smell is aromatic and spicy, slightly licorice-like, with a warming and burning finish. The “medicinal taste” (due to the herbal mixture) is intentional and typical. The alcohol content is 40 to 49 percent by volume. The sugar content is a maximum of three grams per 100 milliliters. The production takes place through maceration or percolation of the selected herbs, fruits, roots and bark in a preselected spirit. The different herbal mixtures contain 36 to 52 components. The herbs include anise , coriander , cinnamon and star anise . The duration of storage requires further differentiation in taste between the producers.
history
Leidschendam is the place of origin of the Boonekamp . Around 1780, a local pharmacist, whose name was traditionally Boonekamp or Kamp, had made a bitter liquor from genever and a mixture of herbs. He sold his recipe to the AM Freres company in Antwerp after it was handed down . This type of liqueur production soon spread to Holland and Belgium .
The recipes of the herbal mixtures varied, so that “Boonekamp” became a generic term . The “Boonekamp of Maagbitter”, which Hubert Underberg from Rheinberg developed in 1846 and deposited in the commercial register as a sample in 1851, has a fixed recipe. In 1894, with the law for the protection of product names, no name protection could be granted. So the Boonekamp from Underberg got the name "Underberg".
Since then, Boonekamp has been part of the standard range of many manufacturers of herbal liqueurs. Typical is the distribution in small bottles made of dark glass as a portion size of the "stomach therapeutic agent" for fatty foods. Sales sizes in 0.7 liter bottles are also available.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mike Meinke: Boonekamp - description of taste. (No longer available online.) In: Lexikon der Spirituosen. Triobar - cocktail bar, archived from the original on April 25, 2009 ; Retrieved May 11, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ulrich Stula: The history of the origin of the Boonekamp. Retrieved May 11, 2009 .
- ^ Christian Rainer: Boonekamp. (No longer available online.) In: Christian Rainer Bar-Magazins. Archived from the original on September 26, 2010 ; Retrieved May 11, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
