Calisaya (liqueur) Calisaya (liqueur) Calisaya (liqueur) is a herbal liqueur produced by infusing cinchona calisaya, and other barks, roots and flowers in grain neutral spirit and seville orange extract. It is a contemporary revision of the classic Italian amaro. It is handcrafted in small numbered batches by Elixir, Inc., a craft distillery in Eugene, Oregon, which was founded by the Italian brothers Andrea and Mario Loreto. It can be drunk as both an Apéritif and digestif or used as a bitter ingredient in cocktails. Cinchona based liqueurs are very popular in Italy under the generic name of China (pronounced Kee-nah), the Italian
Curaçao (liqueur) Curaçao (liqueur) Curaçao () is a liqueur flavored with the dried peel of the Laraha citrus fruit, grown on the island of Curaçao. Curaçao liqueur is traditionally made with the dried peels of the "Laraha". Laraha is a bitter orange native to Curaçao with the Latin name "Citrus × aurantium subsp. currassuviencis". Spanish explorers brought the bitter Seville orange to the island in 1527, the progenitor of the laraha. Although the bitter flesh of the laraha is unpalatable, the peels are pleasantly aromatic. There are no definitive facts to point out who developed the first Curaçao Liqueur and when. The