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I would like to get a liqueur to drink a little on Shabbos Kodesh. Just want to do something special.
Would be interested in your opinions.
Thank you
Drambuie
What hechsher is Drambuie under?
London Beis din. See their website.
Vanilla Vodka – something new that came out last year (or at least I just became aware of it). Chill it and it is spectacular (and I am not even a drinker!!!!)
Yech. marco!
Def Drambui. I have it every shabbos. It has the KLBD logo on the bottle. It is a whiskey based liquer, therefore is probably not so suited to woman.
Glayva
Peter Heering Cherry Liqueur
Schmerling Chocolate liqueur
The Schmerling liqueur is great for making decadent desserts at fleshig meals.
I made a trifle once, using a parve Dunchan Hines chocolate mix, parve whipped topping (Eden or Rich’s, IIRC), parve chocolate shavings, and topped each serving with a shtickle of the Schmerling. To die for.
A shame is that kosher kahlua must be brought in from Mexico.
I am still on the hunt for acceptable Grand Marnier, Framboises, Sambuca, and Campari. Any suggestions?
Godiva makes a chocolate liqueur that is pareve. it’s delish also.
herman jansen chocolate mint
Rebdoniel,
I found Campari listed on kosherliquorlist. com. Apprently, some bottles have Rav Gorelik’s hechsher, and KLBD may certify as well (check that out because these things can change, and I don’t know if that site is reliable).
Oomis, is the brown Godiva still parve?
Advocaat is always by far, superior to all other liqueurs.
Drambuie is not SUPERVISED by the london beis din, it is APPROVED, which is similar to the list system used in europe, meaning that the beis din know the ingredients and have checked them out, but have never actually been down to the factory.
The london beis din has two separate logos, the hebrew one is actually a hechsher, meaning that they have the level nichnas veyoitzei required by shulchan oruch, the english lettering means apprpoved.
London beis din was headed until a few years ago by the ga’on r’ chanoich ehrentrau, today it is headed by r’ menachem gelley, and rabbbi jeffrey conway is responsible for kashruth issues.
If you are looking for a good liquer with a good hechsher i would rerccomend either shmerling chocolate, or there is a liquer called advoscotch, which althoughg whiskey based is only about 17%, and is an improvement on advoca’at.
as an aside, brittish researchers have shown that people who drink 40 ml of liquer twice a week, or 200 ml of wine are healthier.
Binyamina chocolate liquor is the favorite of most women in my shul. It’s thick and real chocolaty. At home we prefer homemade liquor, but Binyamina comes close.
goldersgreener: I’m American, and I don’t feel meshubad to get involved in British kosher politics. I’m confident in the london beis din, and if they say it is kosher, I drink it ?????.
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Oomis, is the brown Godiva still parve”
I haven’t bought it in a couple of years (I still have one bottle from years ago, that’s how little we booze it up in my house), but I have heard that it still is pareve. The white chocolate was milchig (though I heard a rumor that it was pareve, but I never was fully invested in buying any, so I haven’t checked). At one time I think the dark chocolate was milchig, but I believe that changed some time ago. My bottle is definitely pareve. Next time I am near my local kosher wine shop, I will ask them bli neder.
The Godiva liqueur became milchig about a year ago, if you look around you may be able to find a pareve one still on the shelves. After Godiva my favorite is Herman Jansen Chocolate mint and Starbucks Coffee liqueur,I’m a big coffee fan :). I personally don’t like Shmerling’s because its thicker like a chocolate syrup and I prefer liqueur with a thinner texture, but its great for pouring on desserts!
Popa, it sounds a little stupid to rely on a hachsher if they the,selves only give it an approved status, not a full one. That’s not politics, it’s simply closing your eyes. (i’m not sure whose on which side, but carrying in the london eiruv might be “politics”.)
Goldersgreener, thanks for the info. i have always wondered what the difference is between their hebrew hechsher, and english “house” KLBD logo.
Popa, it sounds a little stupid to rely on a hachsher if they the,selves only give it an approved status, not a full one. That’s not politics, it’s simply closing your eyes.
Amazing. Simply amazing. It is stupid to rely on a hechsher when the approve something. I think you’ll need to elaborate on that one.
But before you do, I’ll let you in on a secret: All hashgachos do it, even on things that they actively certify. They have lists of ingredients that are permitted, even though nobody certified the manufacture of those ingredients. American hashgachos call those “Schedule A ingredients”.
If you don’t trust the stuff on their approved list, you cannot eat anything on their regular list either, since it may contain ingredients from their approved list. Certainly in an establishment certified by the London Beis Din, they allow the kitchen to cook with things from the approved list.
Advocaat is always by far, superior to all other liqueurs.
This is true. I like the one by Bols, and I found it in a chassidishe liquor store in Monsey (the one in the little mall type place next to the big grocery store, where you drive down a steep hill into the parking lot).
goldersgreener: The Kashrus issues of the London Beth Din are dealt with Rabbi JEREMY Conway. He davens in Bridge Lane Beth Hamedrash with Rabbi Shimon Winegarten Shilita. The logo of the Beth Din is a very superior hechsher. Everything is checked out, from the pipes that feed the water from the source, the steamers, the central heating pipes that may be connected to other sources etc. Rabbi Conway goes to all these factories and speaks about his findings at BLBH to packed audiences. One year, he even described how Rav Landau Shilita gives the hechsher for Pesach on Coca Cola. Now, THAT is for a different discussion!
The best bubby, thanks for the corrections. [i didn’t mean to say that thay have never been down to the factory, what i
meant was that there was a difference between the regular level of nuchnas ve’yoitzei [done without prior warning], and a one time, or even annual visit] Although i do not know rabbi conway personally, e widely recognised as anexcellent maven in today’s food technologies etc..
PBA, i meant nothing against the london beis din, all i meant to
say was that they have a lower level of supervision on drambuiee, and to reccomend other liquers with full supervision. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
I am not aware of all their rules, i am however aware that many hachsherim “approve” things and mentiiion that they are bishul accum, or even cholov accum, so it is important to keep up to date of the various changes. They publish an annual list under the name “the real kosher food guide.”
At the same time, i must point out that it is out of place to refer to this basic information as “british politics”, i meant no more than simple facts that everyone agrees on.
goldersgreener:- FYI:- The London Beth Din is absolutely impecable, so don’t even entertain any aspersions against them Chas vSholom.
my brother just bought the shmerlings a few weeks ago and labeled it disgusting…
Cool Brasil Chocolate Mint Liqueur has a hechsher from the Holland (Netherlands) Rabbinate
Hey, Popa, I didn’t realsie that you that sensitive.
To label the distinction between approved and superivised british poloitics is the equivalent of a brit saying that the differenced between florsheim and nike is stupid politics, and they are both shoes.
Additionally many hashgachot rely on approved lists for basic raw ingredients, such as ground coffee, honey, fruit juices etc…, however that does not mean that they would use more complicated things.
147, the london is undoubtedly impeccable, so are the OU, and many other hechsherim, however they are still entitled to issue different levels of supervision.
Goldeers greener thanks for the info. i’m slowly building up a picture of euripean hechsherim.
sorry popa,i actually think your comparison is like comparing two blood pressure pills without knowing whether they are supposed to raise or lower the pressure.
Anyone with yiras shomayim understands the importance of accurate information in kashrus.
Best bubby, perhaps the factoies Rabbi conway so dramatically describes are the factories that he supervises rather than those that they simply approve??????
sorry popa,i actually think your comparison is like comparing two blood pressure pills without knowing whether they are supposed to raise or lower the pressure.
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/popa-figures-out-more-stuff
For the record, I don’t know what narishkeit you are inventing, but Drambuie is listed on the KLBD website as “certified”. http://www.klbdkosher.org/certified_companies/?doCompanySearch=1&resultsPage=&query=drambuie&categoryId=17&searchButton.x=35&searchButton.y=10
And there is no designation on their website of any two tier hashgacha system.
ichsa. single malt only.
Good. Now I can continue to make Kiddush and Havdallah on a revi’is of Drambuie (Chasing Ish shiur, of course).
1. The new Walders coffee is great
2. Peter Heering coffee is good
3. Disaronno terrific but expensive
All are best straight from freezer
The above are considered “Vaberish” bronfin
PBA, sorry for any misunderstandings that i may have indirectly caused, …. but i am bit interested in knowing what is wrong with the moshol of SSA, at least the one to the diferent makes of shoes?
I assume that you are not just using rhetoric to cancel her point, because you yourself are doing what you accuse her of doing.
The difference between approved and certified is, or at least should be, that the company is obligated to keep, with a penalty for violating, the standards of the certifying agency.
I would be amazed to hear that any reputable agency would allow its symbol to be used without recourse for violations.
Maybe the shoe comparison has some merit, but the blood pressure medication anology was odd. Obviously, an approval and a certification are doing the same thing – demonstrating the kashrus of a product.
popa, i am not sure if to take you seriously, but just in case you really didn’t understand, i will explain in very simple terms.
You wrote that as far as you are concerned kosher is kosher, to which i responded that to categorise eveerything as kosher, independent of the standard of kashrut is equivalent to catergorizing all shoes together, or even all blood pressure medication as one, and insist that you know of no difference between them.
Mpsholim are a classic way to bring out a point, but as ahtey say ?? ?????? ?????? so i guess that thye are not for everyone.
Sorry, folks, I’m still not responding to mesholim.
I thought this would be over after I showed that it is “certified” and that their website doesn’t reference a two tier system, but if you must, I will respond.
If I understand correctly, your point is that if the hashgacha offers “certification” and “approval”, it is possible that one is being machmir if one eats only the “certified” stuff, since it seems more verified.
My initial strong response to this was based on the fact that golders did not simply refer to it as a chumrah, but instead stated that “meaning that they have the level nichnas veyoitzei required by shulchan oruch”–thereby implying that the approved list was against halacha. Without getting into why you are wrong on halacha, it is obviously libelous to say that the LBD is approving things contrary to halacha.
My reply to your argument of chumrah, being advocated by Shoe Sales, is that since the same hashgacha holds of both methods, and presumably relies on its approved lists when certifying foods that have components on the approved list, as is also commonly done in the US, there is no chumrah since there is no way of knowing that the certified stuff does not contain approved stuff.
SS responded to that by claiming that they would not use any of the “complicated” approved stuff. Since the discussion had become speculation then, I didn’t reply. Especially since replying would have required a technical understanding of blood pressure medication (since I presumably would need to respond to the moshol from within it) which I do not have.
Now tell me: Didn’t I present the arguments far better than any moshol could?
This is similar to a King who had a son who had sinned against him, but the son did not understand why. So the King called in his son, and he explained to him how his feelings were hurt when the son did such and such, and how it is inappropriate to hurt your father the King’s feelings. The son understood, and refrained from sinning again.
Popa,
Are you maskim to me that there’s a maaleh in certified over approved?
Golders Greener, since you blatantly lied when you said that they don’t go to the factory, and then later acted as though that was a minor oversight, I don’t think that you have much credibility on this subject.
a)grappa, distilled from large amounts of wine that went bad. It has a smokey chocolate character at 80 proof.
b) things you can make with pure alcohol. In EY, you can get stuff like Everclear, but distilled from grapes and kosher le pesach. With this I have made myrtle berry, by soaking the berries and then cutting by 50%, limoncello, a decoction of lemon zest and sugar syrup. You can also make chocolate liquor fairly easily, but it takes three months. Etrog would be nice, but it is nearly impossible to get organic fruit. The ordinary specimen is laced with pesticides.
Are you maskim to me that there’s a maaleh in certified over approved?
No, because I assume they use approved components in the certified plants.
The approved components are usually the types of things that are never problematic, but something like Drambuie has ingredients which could be problematic (glycerin, for example).
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