"Alkermes" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in a multitude of subtile, delightful mixtures—liqueurs, cremes and sirops. Very dear to the heart of refined sensualists is the famous monks' liquor called chartreuse, which deservedly ranks at the head of the long list of liqueurs—anisette, curacao, maraschino, rosolio, alkermes, ratafia, genievre, etc. It is made by the monks of the Grande Chartreuse, near Grenoble, of certain aromatic herbs and brandy, the former gathered by them in their summer wanderings amongst the Jura Mountains. It is a sticky, sweet compound of a green ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 • Various |
