It would seem that aniseed liqueur sambuca can be drunk simply from wine-glasses, like most other varieties of strong alcohol, but in fact, like any other liquor, sambuca has several different ways of using at once, which make it possible to maximize the taste of the drink. Details on how to drink sambuca, in the material presented below.
How to drink sambuca with coffee beans?
We will begin by explaining one of the oldest ways of using sambuki, which the Italians themselves used. Within its framework, three roasted coffee beans were thrown at the bottom of the glass with sambuca. Before you drink coffee sambuka, prepare another glass and a tube with a napkin. In the napkin it is necessary to make a small hole and insert the upper, shorter part of the tube.
Sambuca in the glass is set on fire. During the combustion, the glass is continuously turned to prevent the glass from bursting. After 5-7 seconds, alcohol is poured into the second glass, cover it with the first glass on top and leave for 3 seconds. Then, the first inverted glass is placed on a napkin with a straw, drunk a burnt sambuca, holding coffee beans in the mouth, and then draws the vapors through a tube and chews coffee.
Of course, a similar technology for using sambuki can be repeated without adding coffee beans to the drink.
How to drink sambuku at home?
Sambucu can be drunk and just like that, without accompanying the process with a string of cunning manipulations. If you decide to serve a pile of anise liquor as a digestive, then like any liquor it will need to be cooled as much as possible. Before bottling the sambuki, leave the bottle in the freezer for at least half an hour, and then try it.
How to drink sambuku at home?
Among all the ways to drink sambuku, this one is perhaps the most popular. This is the way liquor is usually served in bars, because it is rather spectacular and fast.
Sambucu is poured into glasses, then ignited and allowed to burn for about 7 seconds. Due to the high strength, the drink is easily ignited and can burn long enough. After the expiration of the time, the sambuca is quickly extinguished by a strong exhalation and heated alcohol is drunk.
Another simple method without ignition, which will make it possible to master anise tincture even for those who do not like strong alcohol - a simple cocktail . Dilute a portion of sambuki cool water in a proportion of 1: 2 (on a part of sambuki two parts of water). The ice will help cool the drink. After adding water, the sambuca becomes turbid due to the high content of essential oils, which are poorly soluble in water.
Another interesting ingredient for breeding sambuks can become cold milk.
With what you can drink sambuku?
Aniseed tincture is rich in aroma and taste, because it is not customary to give it a snack, so as not to interrupt them. That's why if you intend to drink sambuca, be sure to pre-eat tightly. It is best to serve a liqueur after a meal, it will help digestion, but it is also permissible to drink sambuca before meals for
If you do not want to drink a clean sambuca, then prepare cocktails. Among long drinks, there are often combinations of sambuks with milk (both cow and coconut), liqueurs, ice cream, champagne, cola and sprite. No less popular are the shots, the most famous of which are the B-52 and Hiroshima . Both cocktails are a multicomponent and quite strong alcohol mixture, which once again proves that the sambuk is perfectly combined with many varieties of alcohol.