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The drink has been popular in the [[San Francisco Bay Area]] since before [[Prohibition]].<ref name="sfweekly" /> In 2008, San Francisco accounted for 25% of US consumption.<ref>{{Cite journal | url = http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811/bitters | title = The Bitter Beginning: Learning to love a bracing Italian liqueur | first = Wayne | last = Curtis | journal = [[The Atlantic]] |date=November 2008}}</ref> San Francisco bars usually serve fernet as a [[Shooter (mixed drink)|shot]] followed by a [[ginger ale]] chaser.<ref name="sfweekly" /> |
The drink has been popular in the [[San Francisco Bay Area]] since before [[Prohibition]].<ref name="sfweekly" /> In 2008, San Francisco accounted for 25% of US consumption.<ref>{{Cite journal | url = http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811/bitters | title = The Bitter Beginning: Learning to love a bracing Italian liqueur | first = Wayne | last = Curtis | journal = [[The Atlantic]] |date=November 2008}}</ref> San Francisco bars usually serve fernet as a [[Shooter (mixed drink)|shot]] followed by a [[ginger ale]] chaser.<ref name="sfweekly" /> |
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Fernet gained additional visibility when it was reported to be the favorite drink of [[2007 U.S. Open Golf Championship|2007]] [[U.S. Open (golf)]] winner [[Ángel Cabrera]].<ref>{{cite news | first=Alan | last=Shipnuck | title=Grand Opening | date=2007-06-20 | url =http://www.golf.com/golf/tours_news/article/0,28136,1635158,00.html | publisher =Golf.com | pages = | accessdate = 2007-08-07}}</ref> |
Fernet gained additional visibility when it was reported to be the favorite drink of [[2007 U.S. Open Golf Championship|2007]] [[U.S. Open (golf)]] winner [[Ángel Cabrera]].<ref>{{cite news | first=Alan | last=Shipnuck | title=Grand Opening | date=2007-06-20 | url =http://www.golf.com/golf/tours_news/article/0,28136,1635158,00.html | publisher =Golf.com | pages = | accessdate = 2007-08-07}}</ref> along gonzalo pisano |
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Revision as of 12:21, 13 July 2015
Fernet (Italian pronunciation: [fɛrˈnɛt]) is an Italian type of amaro, a bitter, aromatic spirit. Fernet is made from a number of herbs and spices which vary according to the brand, but usually include myrrh, rhubarb, chamomile, cardamom, aloe, and especially saffron,[1] with a base of grape distilled spirits, and colored with caramel coloring.
Fernet is usually served as a digestif after a meal but may also be served with coffee and espresso or mixed into coffee and espresso drinks. It typically contains 45% alcohol by volume. It may be served at room temperature or with ice. A mint-flavored version of fernet is also available.
Fernet's smell has been described as "like black licorice-flavored Listerine".[1]
Popularity
Fernet is very popular in Argentina, where the production is around 25 million liters, 35% sold in Buenos Aires province and Federal District and 30% in Córdoba province (with a population of 3 million people).[2][3] It is commonly mixed with cola,[4] but it is also drunk with soda water (in an "old fashioned way"), or even neat.
The drink has been popular in the San Francisco Bay Area since before Prohibition.[1] In 2008, San Francisco accounted for 25% of US consumption.[5] San Francisco bars usually serve fernet as a shot followed by a ginger ale chaser.[1]
Fernet gained additional visibility when it was reported to be the favorite drink of 2007 U.S. Open (golf) winner Ángel Cabrera.[6] along gonzalo pisano
Cocktails
Fernet can be mixed into cocktails, though the strong taste can overwhelm other ingredients. It can replace bitters in recipes; for instance, the Fanciulli cocktail is a Manhattan with fernet instead of Angostura bitters.[7]
The chef Fergus Henderson offers a recipe, entitled both "A Miracle" and "Dr. Henderson" that approximates Branca Menta by combining two parts fernet with one part crème de menthe over ice. The recipe describes this cocktail as a cure for overindulgence.[8]
In popular culture
Fernet receives a mention in the novel Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald.[a] It forms the titular subject of James Hamilton-Paterson's 2004 novel of Tuscany expatriate life, Cooking with Fernet Branca [9] In the 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises, Bruce Wayne's butler Alfred Pennyworth remembers himself sitting in Florence, Italy drinking a Fernet Branca.[10] Fernet Branca (as Fernet-Branca) is mentioned in the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt.[b]
See also
Notes
- ^ "Silence while he stared at a shelf that held the humbler poisons of France—bottles of Otard, Rhum St. James, Marie Brizzard, Punch Orangeade, Andre Fernet Blanco, Cherry Rochet, and Armagnac."
- ^ "Hobie had an iron constitution; whenever he came down with anything himself, he drank a Fernet-Branca and kept going."
References
- ^ a b c d Cavalieri, Nate (2005-12-07). "The Myth of Fernet". SF Weekly. Archived from the original on 21 February 2007. Retrieved 2010.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help); Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "El fenómeno fernet". Clarín (in Spanish). Retrieved 2014-08-11.
- ^ "Los argentinos vuelven al vermouth y al whisky importado". Clarín (in Spanish).
- ^ Rathbun, A. J. (2009). Dark Spirits: 200 Classy Concoctions Starring Bourbon, Brandy, Scotch, Whiskey, Rum and More. Harvard Common Press. p. 207. ISBN 978-1-55832-427-5.
- ^ Curtis, Wayne (November 2008). "The Bitter Beginning: Learning to love a bracing Italian liqueur". The Atlantic.
- ^ Shipnuck, Alan (2007-06-20). "Grand Opening". Golf.com. Retrieved 2007-08-07.
- ^ Felten, Eric (2009-01-03). "Making Bitter Fernet-Branca Much Easier to Swallow". Wall Street Journal.
- ^ Henderson, Fergus (April 2004). The Whole Beast: Nose to Tail Eating. Ecco. ISBN 0-06-058536-6.
- ^ Michael Dibdin (19 June 2004). "Strange brew". The Guardian.
- ^ Watercutter, Angela (2012-07-20). "9 Unintentional Dark Knight Rises Lessons". Wired.