Young and old refer to the recipe, not the age. What malt wine does to a shot, and why gin descends from jenever.
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Advocaat15%So thick it comes with a small spoon: not a shot but a dessert.Aged jenever40% · malt wine 40%Years in oak change the colour, the taste and the price.Beerenburg30% · malt wine 15%Invented in Amsterdam, but Friesland made it a national drink.Blackcurrant jenever20% · malt wine 10%Sweet, dark red and far lower in alcohol: the shot for those who find jenever too sha…Boerenjongens20% · malt wine 10%Raisins in brandy and sugar: eaten with a spoon alongside.Grain jenever40% · malt wine 100%Entirely from grain, with no neutral alcohol: the most craft form there is.Jenever and ginGin descends from jenever, not the other way round: English soldiers took the drink h…Juniper berryBotanically not a berry but a cone: the juniper is a conifer.KopstootA glass of beer with a shot beside it, and a fixed order for starting.Korenaar38% · malt wine 30%Between old jenever and korenwijn: more malt wine than one, less than the other.Korenwijn38% · malt wine 60%The heaviest kind: more than half malt wine, and two years in oak.Lemon jenever30% · malt wine 10%Peel, not juice: juice would turn the drink cloudy and sour.Malt wine46% · malt wine 100%Not jenever but the base of it: distilled grain without juniper.Old jenever38% · malt wine 25%Here too: old is the style, not the age. An old jenever can be a month old.Oranjebitter30% · malt wine 10%Orange in colour and in intent: the drink of the royal house.ProeflokaalOnce literally the room next to the distillery where you could taste before you bough…Protected namesJenever may only come from the Netherlands, Belgium and two French departments.SchiedamIn the nineteenth century almost four hundred distilleries stood here, and the town w…Vieux35%Neither jenever nor cognac: a Dutch drink built to resemble both.Young jenever35% · malt wine 5%Young refers to the recipe, not the age: it is the newer style, not the younger drink…