Cocktails with Crème de Mûre liqueur
Crème de mûre is a sweet blackberry liqueur made by macerating blackberries in spirit and sweetening heavily.
ABV15–20%
Substitutes for Crème de Mûre liqueur
Everything in the family is sweet; how sweet is the variable, and the EU floor for the sweetest of them is nearly double the rest. Taste before you cut the syrup, and expect the fruit to change from blackberry to whatever the bottle actually holds.
On the label
- “crème de”
- Nothing to do with cream. EU rules set a minimum of 250 grams of sugar per liter for anything sold as crème de, and it is that sugar, not dairy, that gives the syrupy weight.
Often confused with
Crème de cassis
Blackcurrant, and by law far sweeter: 400 grams of sugar a liter against 250. Substituting by volume puts noticeably more sugar in the drink.
Blackberry brandy and eau-de-vie
Dry, distilled and much stronger, and it brings the fruit without the sugar, so the recipe has to supply the sweetness itself.
