Southern Comfort Liqueur

Southern Comfort Liqueur Recipes and Information

Southern Comfort also produces Ready-To-Pour cocktails available in the US including Southern Comfort Sweet Tea, Southern Comfort Hurricane and Southern Comfort Lemonade, which are all 30 proof (15% alcohol by volume).

Southern Comfort Lime released in the Summer of 2010 is 55 proof (27.5% alcohol by volume).

Outside the US, Southern Comfort produces single-serve cocktails including Southern Comfort Lemonade and Lime in the UK, and Southern Comfort and Cola in Australia.

The Brown-Forman Corporation owns the Southern Comfort brand.

In an episode of The Thirsty Traveler entitled "A River of Whiskey," spirits historian Chris Morris describes the original recipe of Southern Comfort. Heron began with good-quality bourbon and would add: "An inch of vanilla bean, about a quarter of a lemon, half of a cinnamon stick, four cloves, a few cherries, and an orange bit or two. He would let this soak for days. And right when he was ready to finish, he would add his sweetener: he liked to use honey.

Southern comfort In cocktails

Southern Comfort is used in the creation of many popular cocktails, including Alabama Slammer, Red Death, Red Devil, Crash & Burn, '57 Chevy, Sloe Comfortable Screw, SoCo Hurricane, The Princess Peach, Slo Sunrise, Rickstasy, SocoCola, SoCoCello, SoCo-LoCo, SoCo Manhattan, Blind Andy, SoCo Andy, Steamboat and Funky Cold Medina. Southern Comfort and club soda make a drink called An Old Woody.

One of the earliest Southern Comfort-based cocktails to be marketed was the Scarlett O'Hara, concocted in tribute to the release of the film adaptation of Gone with the Wind in 1939. The mixture includes Southern Comfort, cranberry juice, and fresh lime.

In a recent advertising campaign, the company suggests mixing it with lime juice to make a Soco and lime.

When Southern Comfort is taken as a shot and chased with orange soda, it gives the distinct taste of an Orange Creamsicle. Another popular mix that incorporates juice is the Adam's Apple, a combination of Southern Comfort and apple juice. Cider can also be used in this drink.

In New Zealand, Southern Comfort is often mixed with Lemon & Paeroa.

In Ireland, Southern Comfort is often mixed with Red Lemonade (a type of soft drink popular in Ireland ). This is known as a Southy and Red (or Suddy 'n' Red in Dublin).