{"id":65294,"date":"2026-09-14T12:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T11:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/drankengids\/vieux-dutch-brandy\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T12:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T11:52:09","slug":"vieux-dutch-brandy","status":"publish","type":"drink","link":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/drankengids\/vieux-dutch-brandy\/","title":{"rendered":"Vieux and Dutch brandy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dutch brandy that is not allowed to be called cognac.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>The name<\/h2>\n<p>Cognac is protected: grape spirit from one French region only. The Dutch version is called <strong>vieux<\/strong>, and is usually made from grain alcohol with added flavours.<\/p>\n<h2>The word brandy<\/h2>\n<p>English took it straight from Dutch. <em>Brandewijn<\/em> means burnt wine, and the English shortened it.<\/p>\n<h2>Boerenjongens<\/h2>\n<p>Raisins soaked in brandy with sugar, kept in a jar. Boerenmeisjes are the same with apricots. Both appear at birthdays, next to the coffee.<\/p>\n<h2>How it is drunk<\/h2>\n<p>Neat, or stirred into coffee. In Brabant coffee with vieux is called <strong>koffie verkeerd om<\/strong>, which is not the same as koffie verkeerd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch brandy that is not allowed to be called cognac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false},"drink-type":[],"pairing":[],"class_list":["post-65294","drink","type-drink","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/drink\/65294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/drink"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/drink"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"drink-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/drink-type?post=65294"},{"taxonomy":"pairing","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pairing?post=65294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}