I love schnapps. I mean, I really, really love schnapps. Right now, I’m sipping on a bottle of Pucker Cherry and Berry Schnapps by John Dekuyper & Son bottling. It’s great. Hell, even my girlfriend likes it, and she doesn’t drink too much (she gagged on Baley’s Irish Cream, said it tasted like ‘hairspray.’) Anyway, I thought I’d share.
(PS: normally, I’m a bigger fan of Jim Beam Black 8 year burbon whiskey, but my girl doesn’t dig burbon, vodka, or irish creams.)
How does she know?
Beats me with a stick, but she does somehow. Scary thing is, she doesn’t use hairspray. Not ‘enviromentally friendly.’
She probably inhaled it accidently (or non-accidently) at one time or another. Even if she doesn’t use it, she’s been in a public bathroom with someone who was putting some on at one point in her life, I’d bet on it. I’d especially bet on it if she’s American, and remembers the 80’s.
She gagged on Bailey’s Irish Cream? That’s no woman I’d want to know…
The schnapps we know in the U.S. is nothing at all like German schnapps, which is pure fire water.
Nah, German Schnapps isnt that good. Try Swiss Schnapps, but not the commercial ones, the ones that are made by some friend’s 80 year old grandfather. Usually about 50-70% vol alc. Usual stuff is either pear, prunes, apple or cherry (dont think sweet cherry liquor, think big vat with alcohol and a cherry dipped in).
Preferably mixed with coffee.
We have a nice recipe here for that:
Take coffee mug
Put a coin in
Fill with coffee till you cant see the coin anymore
Then fill with schnapps till you see it again
Drink!
Couple of those give you a mighty hangover, if you survive that is. 
Schnapps must be used responsibly, however. If you’ve been drinking beer all night, DO NOT start drinking schnapps. Remembering the “morning after” is still so painful that I have yet to tell the story.
I was vacationing in California and picked up a bottle of orange wine Peppermint Schnapps (actually spelled Sna-with-umlaut-pps). Excellent stuff.
Anyone ever try making italian sodas with schnapps? I love doing that – I prefer the schnapps flavor in italian sodas to italian soda syrup.
Ditto.
Bailey’s is one of the greatest stubstances known to mankind.