southern comfort a liqueur or a bourbon
2006-11-13 06:30:43 · 9 answers · asked by melofan01 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
It's a bourbon based liqueur.
You start with bourbon and add sugar and flavors and wind up with SoCo. Once you add something to bourbon, it stops being bourbon per se.
2006-11-13 07:09:13 · answer #1 · answered by Trid 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is a liqueur.
Southern Comfort is made from neutral grain spirits of such a high alcohol content that the mash medium it's made from is irrelevant. (Neutral grain spirits can be made from any of the cereal grains, often whatever is cheapest at the time).
Bourbon by definition has to be made from a mash that is at least 51% corn. They make it from two different mashes, one "sweet" or new and one "sour" or old. The batch is then aged. Some say that to be a real bourbon, the stuff has to be made in Bourbon County, Kentucky. By either definition, SoCo doesn't pass the test.
They do make a special "Southern Comfort Reserve" which is traditional Southern Comfort blended with a six year old Bourbon, if you want to drink a Southern Comfort that actually has Bourbon involved in the process.
2006-11-13 07:12:27 · answer #2 · answered by Jim C 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is a liqueur that is supposedly bourbon based.
2006-11-13 06:54:00 · answer #3 · answered by Hank 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Southern Comfort is actually a peach liqueur, but don't confuse it with a schnapps.. that's a whole different animal.
2006-11-13 06:34:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe Southern Comfort is whiskey.
2006-11-13 08:14:48 · answer #5 · answered by crystalg6982 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Actually, it's neither. It's considered a "bottled in bond". It's probably referred to as this because it doesn't truly fit into either category.
Their website does refer to it as a whiskey though.
2006-11-13 06:37:20 · answer #6 · answered by WeaselLuvr 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
it is a bourbon
2006-11-13 06:55:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
liqueur
2006-11-13 06:33:34 · answer #8 · answered by SKYDOGSLIM 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a liquour. And a good one too! Straight up on ice.
2006-11-13 09:02:38 · answer #9 · answered by Whos your mama? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋