2006-07-08 11:37:12 · 11 answers · asked by llouie 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
you can get it both ways
2006-07-08 11:40:26 · answer #1 · answered by Laura B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Triple sec is an Alcholic beverage: IT is a strong, clear orange-flavored liqueur.
In addition to the generic brand Triple Sec, Curaçao, Cointreau, and Grand Marnier are also triple secs.
While triple sec usually would mean "triple dry", it here means "triple distilled".
2006-07-08 18:47:01 · answer #2 · answered by VIC 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It can be both, but it is usually with alcohol. Most versions (and what bars use) is with alcohol - usually about 30%. But, there are some versions with no alcohol (you can tell by reading the label - obviously).
The major brands are DeKuyper and Hiram Walker (both w/ alcohol), but I know Rose's offers non-alcoholic Triple Sec. (I used to work on the Rose's brand - the maker of Rose's Lime Juice & Grenadine)
From Wikipedia...Triple sec is a colourless, orange-flavoured liqueur used in thousands of mixed drinks and recipes as a sweetening and flavouring agent. The orange flavour comes from the dried peels of prematurely-picked oranges that grow natively on the island of Curaçao, and tend to be more bitter than other oranges. The peels then macerate in alcohol to disperse the flavour.
The word sec would normally mean "dry" in the French language, implying a lack of sweetness; but sec, in this case, means distilled, explaining the colourless appearance of the liqueur from the three-stage process, as well as the un-implied sweetness. The original triple sec is Cointreau, a liqueur developed by Adolphe and Edouard-Jean Cointreau in France. It is very similar to an undistilled liqueur called Curaçao, which comes from the island of Curaçao using the bitter Laraha orange peels. Though the two liqueurs are akin to one another, Curaçao dates from 1886, while Cointreau dates from 1849.
Triple sec has an average ABV of 30%, or 60 proof, though different brands vary in alcohol content from 15% to 40%.
2006-07-08 18:47:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
alcholic, it's an orange flavored liqueor.
2006-07-09 19:05:40 · answer #4 · answered by nikki11 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
alcholic
2006-07-08 18:48:21 · answer #5 · answered by kiki 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's alcholic
2006-07-08 18:40:00 · answer #6 · answered by bubbles7070 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both.
2006-07-09 01:04:53 · answer #7 · answered by timgsweet 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
15% alcohol, it's a must ingredient to sangria. cheers
2006-07-14 01:18:09 · answer #8 · answered by acopa06 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
triple sec is alcohol.. they use it in long islands ect..
2006-07-08 18:40:19 · answer #9 · answered by Jerome 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
both
2006-07-08 19:04:54 · answer #10 · answered by ashlie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋