Cocktails with Raspberry liqueur

Raspberry liqueur is a sweet berry liqueur on a neutral spirit, with a deep red color and a ripe raspberry flavor.

ABV15–20%

Substitutes for Raspberry liqueur

Raspberry, sugar and about 20% strength arrive together, and it comes back together as raspberry syrup with vodka in equal parts — that lands on all three. Everything else on the berry shelf shifts the fruit itself, and cassis shifts it furthest, towards darker and more astringent.

Often confused with

Crème de Framboise

Also a raspberry liqueur, but "crème" in the name means noticeably more sugar and a thicker body. At the same measure the drink comes out sweeter and heavier: pour about a third less and leave the syrup where it was.

Chambord

Chambord is a black-raspberry liqueur, not a red one, and it is built on a cognac base rather than neutral spirit. It is deeper, sweeter and more perfumed, so a drink made on it reads richer and needs less syrup.

Storage

The color goes before the flavor does, and both go faster in the light. A raspberry liqueur kept on a sunlit shelf will be pale and vague within a year, while the same bottle in a cupboard holds up for two.