Consumers need choices. If you eat Ritz crackers every day of your life, eventually you might want to try a Saltine. Many of these "Generic" brands are not generic at all. As a matter of fact, some of these are far better that the "Category Identifiers that you are more familiar with. Take Irish Cream Liquor as an example. What's the first brand that you think of? Probably Bailey's (R). Saint Brendans Irish Cream is just as good, if not better for less than half of the price! The difference is that Bailey's spends a ton of money in advertising. Have you ever seen a Bailey's commercial during the holidays? Did you know that a 30 second spot costs around $2 million? Someone has to pay for that and it is almost always the consumer.
The reason why vodka is so great, is because of its mixing versatility. It can practically be mixed with anything.- Some of the classics are juices: orange - screwdriver, grapefruit - greyhound, cranberry - red rooster- Soft drinks: colas, seven up, root beer- Waters: tonic, soda, club- Liqueurs: Kahluah & Bailey's - mudslide, generic flavor - "generic flavor"tini (apple, pomegranate, chocolate, etc.)
Yes, made in Jamaica using Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee beans.
Beef and natural flavor. Anything further is proprietary.
Damiana is used in Mexico to flavor liqueurs, tea, and other beverages and foods. It tastes slightly bitter, and the leaves have a strong resinous aroma when crushed.
Proprietary yeast is yeast that has been manufactured specifically for a brewery, or has been originated by the brewery itself.A significant amount of flavor is produced directly from the yeast's fermentation activities, and having a strain of yeast unique to a brewery gives it the advantage of distinguishing its beers from competitors using similar formulas and yeast strains easily available to anyone.An example of a proprietary yeast is by the Rogue Ales Brewery in Newport, Oregon. They brew a German Maibock style ale named Rogue Dead Guy Ale using their proprietary Pacman yeast.
White Sambuca's flavor is dominated by anise, elderberries, and sugar.Black Sambuca's flavor is dominated by Witch elder bush and licorice. It has a higher alcohol content than most anisettes, yet a LESS sugary taste.A word of warning: SOME liqueurs flavored by herbs have some strong "medicinal" properties. Before you dally around with anisettes or with licorice based liqueurs (licorice has been used as a laxative for centuries) -- LEARN about what you're drinking!There are a lot of liqueurs that can be beneficial to one's health in SMALL quantities, but produce extremely undesirable results in LARGE quantities.
Commonly used in culinary preparations as a seasoning. Mints are also used to flavor candy, toothpaste, antacid medicines, chewing gum, shaving cream, liqueurs, and even cigarettes.
Sodium diguanylate is a flavor enhancer (E627) for foods.
more flavor than white and alittle more thickness to it
Not an expert on their story, but they definitely set out to differentiate themselves from the generic ice cream brands. Specifically, I love their unique flavor combinations and branding.
There are basically two ways of extracting flavors: # Cold Method # Hot Method Which one of the two methods used depends on the source of the flavor and the flavor desired. Fruit flavors use the cold method, and plant like items ex. peels, flowers, seeds, barks etc. use the hot method. TExtracting with the cold method is almost like the process used in order to make tea. Crushed fruit is steeped in an alcohol base and is allowed to absorb the flavor of the fruit. It is best to use the cold method when the item used in flavoring would be damaged by heat. The cold method takes a long time to extract flavor but, if heat were used to speed up the process it can ruin the flavor; often giving a burnt flavor. Once the desired flavor is achieve the liquor is filterd from the fruit and a sweetening agent is used. Hot extraction
Anise has a distinctive licorice flavor and can be used in breads, cakes, cookies, and the classic liqueurs pastis, anisette and ouzo. Anise also lends it flavor with fish and seafood, root vegetables, chestnuts, figs and apples. It also goes well in recipes such as fig and anise bread, orange-anise biscotti or pistachio-anise wafers, anise and fennel seed carrot soup, pomegranate borscht, roasted asparagus with anise, or bouillabaisse.