There's something very alluring about . It's hard not to be attracted to something so bright and cheerful, especially when you're about to sip on one, kick back, and have a good time. Blue is a particularly eye-catching color, but most of the time that color is relegated to kiddie products like .
However, there is one cocktail ingredient that boasts a beautiful blue color, and that's blue Curaçao. If you've ever had a drink like a Blue Lagoon, which is made of vodka, lemonade, and blue Curaçao, you know that the latter is what imparts that pretty shade of azure. But in this modern age, we've become conditioned to associate the color blue with the flavor of raspberry, thanks to .
Because of that, it's second nature to assume that blue Curaçao tastes like blue raspberry, but it doesn't. Its main flavor is an entirely different category of fruit altogether: citrus. What is blue Curaçao? Blue Curaçao is a type of liqueur that was traditionally flavored with the peel of the Laraha, which is a type of bitter orange.
The fruit itself is so bitter that it's not worth eating, but the peel's essential oil was used to lend its flavor to the original version of the drink. As to where the blue part began, the story's a little cloudy, but it's thought that Lucas Bols (who founded the distillery of the same name), was the one who added the blue coloring to the drink. Bols had Laraha oil sent to Amsterdam and used it to create a bottled blue drink in 1912 called Crème de Ciel, or.