Cocktails with Lychee liqueur
Lychee liqueur is a sweetened fruit liqueur flavoured with lychee, the fruit of Litchi chinensis, running from pale clear to light pink.
ABV15–20%
Taste profile
A distinctly floral, rose-like fragrance dominates, echoing fresh lychee, over a sweet, fruity body.
How it's used
Serving as a sweet aromatic modifier, it carries the floral lychee note into a build, shaken or stirred, and dosed from a small accent up to a defining flavour component depending on the drink.
Substitutes for Lychee liqueur
Where lychee is only a light aromatic accent, another sweet tropical fruit liqueur of similar strength and sweetness — mango liqueur, for instance — keeps the fruity, medium-body role, though the floral rose-like character is lost and the colour shifts toward yellow; where the drink is meant to taste of lychee, no substitute works.
Description
Lychee liqueur takes a neutral base spirit, flavours it with lychee fruit — commonly by infusion or maceration — and sweetens the result. The lychee is a subtropical fruit of Litchi chinensis (family Sapindaceae) native to southern China, prized for its sweet, floral fragrance.
