Cocktails with Lychee liqueur
Lychee liqueur is a sweetened liqueur made by infusing a neutral spirit with lychee fruit, ranging from clear to pale pink.
ABV15–25%Bols Lychee is 17%, Cartron 25%.
Substitutes for Lychee liqueur
Another lychee liqueur
Swaps in directly, though strength and sweetness vary. With a drier bottle like Cartron, add about half a barspoon of 2:1 syrup per 30 ml.
Homemade lychee liqueur
Blend canned lychees with their syrup and strain. Mix two parts juice, two parts vodka and one part 2:1 syrup. It comes out close to Bols.
Tropical liqueur with rose water
A drop or two of rose water per drink over a passion fruit or mango liqueur suggests lychee's floral note.
Without rose water it gives a mango drink, not a lychee one.
Storage
The rose-like note is the first thing to fade once the bottle is open. Buy small bottles and keep them cold; an old one tastes of sweet flowers rather than lychee.
