True blue? Curacao liqueur reveals its true color

How blue actually is Blue Curacao, the sapphire-colored liqueur used to make Blue Lagoon or Blue Hawaii cocktails?

Not blue in any respect is the reply.

The sensible hue of the drink is artificial, added to evoke the tint of the Caribbean waters surrounding the eponymous Dutch island, the smallest nation to qualify for this yr’s World Cup.

Curacao, which is flavored with orange peel, has been manufactured within the nation of 185,000 inhabitants for greater than a century.

“Most people know it as Blue Curacao but the original Curacao liqueur was never blue to start with. It is clear,” Genesis Riley, a 39-year-old information on the Senior distillery advised AFP.

“But we do have a blue version that inspires the rest of the world,” she added.

The drink gained worldwide renown within the Nineteen Sixties after that includes within the romantic comedy Blue Hawaii, starring singer Elvis Presley as an ex-soldier making an attempt to dodge being drafted into the household pineapple enterprise.

Because Curacao is the title of a territory, Senior can’t patent the liqueur, which is produced world wide.

Initially extra fashionable in Europe, Blue Curacao has additionally been adopted within the Caribbean, Riley mentioned.

Senior additionally produces colorless, purple, inexperienced and yellow curacao however the thirst for these is dwarfed by demand for the blue selection.

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