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As its name implies, birch sap is the sap extracted from birch trees such as the North American Sweet Birch and the Silver Birch.
It is a slightly sweet, thin and watery syrup made up of sugars, proteins, amino acids, and enzymes. The refreshing liquid is consumed as a tonic and traditional beverage in many northern [...]
Posted by on 05 Dec 2007 at 3:19 am under Beverages
The Italian word for witchcraft, Strega is also a fine liqueur of long-standing reputation. Dinstinctively yellow in color with a smooth and soft taste.
Distilled by the family Alberti in Benevento since 1840, it is produced in small pot stills and fermented in oak vats using a closely guarded concoction of herbs and spcies that includes [...]
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