Blue lagoon cocktail: features, manufacturers, recipes

An article about Blue Curasao - a blue liqueur with an orange taste. Features of the liquor, recipes of cocktails.

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Many online publications say that the Blue Laguna cocktail appeared on the Bagams, but in fact, it comes from the fairy-tale island of Curasao, lost in the Caribbean. For true connoisseurs of cocktails, and generally gourmets, we will begin to talk about the cocktail of the blue lagoon from afar, with the history of his appearance. Fortunately, this story is long -standing, and the composition of the real cocktail is complex, and it deserves it.

Syrup Blue Curasao produced at Curasao itself

History of the cocktail blue lagoon

Blue Lagoon - This is a cocktail that is prepared from only three ingredients, this is:

Vodka.
Sprite.
Laker Blue Curasao.

Regarding the first two components, someone is unlikely to have questions, but with the liquor of Blue Curasao, everything is much more complicated. Blue Curasao is a paradoxical combination, it has a bright orange taste and deep blue.

For those who know what the beaches look on the skeleton Curasao, it becomes clear why the blue lagoon is a cocktail that looks that way. Curasao - These are multi -kilometer beaches, pure blue water, and tropical forests that grow right in the ocean, in the tie zone. They say that these jungle leaving the sea, filter water, and thanks to this, the water there is so clean.

Blue lagoon cocktail from the island, where plus 30 degrees all year round. Bright multi -colored houses resemble Amsterdam, but the vegetation here is tropical, completely inconsistent with Europe. It is also amazing that Curasao is still a colony of the Netherlands.

Blue-blue Caribbean Sea off the coast of the island

According to legend, in the 15th century, Spanish conquistadors arrived on the island. And they brought orange trees with them, hoping to grow the same sweet and juicy fruits as in their homeland, in Valencia. However, the sandy soil of Curasao was too poor for fastidious oranges. In addition, he was all saturated with salt water. For Curasao, cacti and aloe were more familiar to vegetation.

Oranges on the plantations of the Spaniards grew bitter and tasteless. And the plantations themselves were abandoned by their European owners.Locals thought for a long time how to get at least some kind of crook from these strange and inedible fruits. Until they came up with drying them, add sugar syrup, and expel moonshine out of them.

The alcoholic drink turned out to be very tasty. In addition to the bitter oranges that began to call Larah, cinnamon, and some other herbs, the name and number of which, the official manufacturer keeps under a strict secret are added to it.

Blocher Curasao - the main ingredient of the cocktail blue lagoon: price and production on the island

Blue lagoon cocktail It is impossible to imagine without syrup Blue Curasao. And on the skeleton of Curasao for more than 150 years has been a manor in which this syrup is still produced using ancient technologies. It is called Cholobobo, What is translated from the Bengal language means "I will touch the earth."

The company that produces the liquor on the island is called Senior Company. They claim that Blue Curasao For the first time they made their founder. The name of this winemaker Edgar Senior, and it was in 1896. But on the fact that the first to come up with a liquor Blue Curasao It is they who claims another company called Bolsfrom the Netherlands, we will talk about it later.

The ancient mansion on the island of Kurasao is painted in canary yellow, and is surrounded by prickly tropical plants. Inside there is a courtyard where tourists conduct excursions and arrange tastings.

Choplobo estate, where Blue Curosao is produced — Choplobo estate, where Blue Curasao is produced

Interestingly, local residents of the island of Blue Curasao Syrop, as a cocktail ingredient, do not complain. They believe that the syrup is too sweet for this. But instead, they are happy to use this liquor for desserts and water ice cream on top.

The very process of production of the main ingredient, which is needed in the cocktail blue lagoon, looks like this:

We are preparing Blue Curasao as well as 150 years ago, says the main technologist in production John Bradshaw.
Blue lagoon is a cocktail for which you need the peel of unripe bitter oranges. This peel must be dried in the sun.
Dried peel folds into tissue bags together with herbs and spices, The composition of which is extremely secret.
These tissue bags are connected by a rope, and fall into a huge copper vat, which is already more than 130 years old.
The container is added 96 percent alcohol obtained from grapes. Chan warms up for 3 days, and then cools down for a day.
After that, the bags with an orange peel and alcohol are removed, and the alcohol infusion is distilled for another three days. At the last stage, sugar syrup and dye are added.

Original Blue Curosao syrup, produced in Cholobo — Original Blue Curasao syrup, produced in Cholobo

In the Russian retail network, it is almost impossible to find Blue Curasao from the Caribbean pool for the cocktail cocktail.

On foreign sites, for several tens of dollars, they sell the original liquor of Blue Curasao, and the price per bottle with a volume of 750 milliliters is now about $ 35. Which at the current rate is 2550 rubles.

The chief technologist of BLC CURASAO John Bradshaw is depressing that they cannot patent the name of his liquor. The fact is that “curasao” is not a name of the island and the name of the geographical object as a trademark, it is impossible.

According to the head of the production of distillery, the giants simply copied their technology, and their liquors are released on it, the same heavenly blue color.

Scheme explaining the process of production of Blue Curasao, which hangs in the mansion of chopper

Blue Curasao Bols brand for cocktail blue lagoon

Bols (Bolz) - One of the largest producers of alcoholic beverages in the world. The company is located in the Netherlands, and it was founded back in 1575. In its advertising materials, the distillery positions itself as the oldest alcohol plant on Earth. Under the name of the brand, a liquor with the trade name Bols Blue Curasao is available.

It is believed that this is one of the highest quality liquor of Blue Curasao, the price of a bottle is about 1,500 rubles or 20.5 American dollars. For this money, you will receive 700 milliliters of the liquor, which needs a blue lagoon in the cocktail.

As for the Blue Laguna and Liker Blue Curasao cocktail, BOLS claims that they were the first to come up with this liquor.

The history of the company Bols says that it was on their distillery that the liquor was first created Blue Curasao. And the founder of the company created it Lucas Bols. According to legend, the blue color of the liquor was explained by a special alchemical element, and the liquor itself was then called “Blue Curasao” but “heavenly cream”.

Other famous winery producing a blue lagoon cocktail liquor

For the cocktail, the blue lagoon is well suited to the liqueurs of other brands, about those that have proven themselves, we will talk below.

De Cuyper "Curasao Blue" - This is a liquor, which, like the eminent Bols, is from the Netherlands. Great for alcoholic cocktails, blue lagoon, blue Hawaii or Blue Margarita. But in its pure form, drinking liquor is not recommended, for that is two reasons at once: firstly, it is too sweet, and secondly, the liquor fortress is 24 revolutions. This curasao has a little lower than that of Bolz, now it is 1 300 rubles or 17.7 dollars.

Blue lagoon cocktail: Manufacturers of liquor

Monin "Blue Curasao" - This liquor is from France. It is attributed to the category of dessert, that is, curasao can be added to tea, coffee or pastries. The cost of this alcoholic syrup is lower than that of all previous ones, 670 rubles or 9 dollarsper bottle of 0.7 liter.

It is interesting that in reality there is no secret alchemical element that gives the very blue color a blue lagoon cocktail. In fact, the liquor is transparent and stain it only at the very last stage of production. And for staining, chemical dyes are used E131, E132 or E133. Of them E131 It is considered the safest, and the next two are more toxic.

In rare cases, in order to paint a blue lagoon cocktail, natural dyes are added to it, for example, from an elderberry berries. However, reviews about Blue Curasao, indicate that there are chemical dyes from the most diverse manufacturers. And the tongue after a cocktail is a blue lagoon for a long time stains in a bright blue color.

Blue lagoon cocktail - recipe

First we will tell you how to cook alcohol cocktail blue lagoon. Classic ingredients for him are the following:

In the non -alcoholic cocktail blue lagoon Blue Curasao is simply mixed with a sprite, lemon and ice, without adding vodka. Although non -alcoholic such a cocktail can be called a stretch, because the liquor already contains alcohol (most of the brands have 24%).

It is interesting that now in the bars it is increasingly popular to pour vodka into a cocktail, but rum or Gene.