![]() I have heard of another unusual flavor, Juniper Schnapps. It has become confusing to recognize it anymore as 'schnapps'. GI's after WWII, spreading the wrong meaning of the 'common" people's 'get-high' drink (after all germany lost a war and everything was rationed) so, schnapps, now, is being offered in so many forms to a large market of trent-addicts. I envisionedĪ misinterpretation by American and other occupying (Krauter) liqueurs, distilled in monasteries,įall under the classification of schnapps.Ī Kirschwasser, Williams-Pear Brandy etc. Multi-distilled brandies derived from pears, cherries, plums, enzian and apricots, even 'Herbal I am not aware of the fact that other, finer and The miners would have a 'korn' and a beer the 'korn' had a more yellow-brown color but both schnapps and korn were low cost alcoholic drinks, served in small glasses and the men would swallow the stuff in one shot-swallows. Schnapps was arrived at by fast distillation of low grade grain varieties. Schnapps! Even though I grew up in Northern Germany, northwest really, the meaning of 'Schnapps' in the families I remember had a connection with particular working class income groups, or farming communities, where the corner pups or the village inn with their round-tables (Stammtisch) or 'There' were places to gather, play cards, talk politics or plan strikes or other revolutionary measurements against dominance in power.Įin Bier, ein Schnapps seemed to belong together like hand-in-glove.
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