How blue really is Blue Curacao, the sapphire-colored liqueur used to make Blue Lagoon or Blue Hawaii cocktails? Not blue at all is the answer. The brilliant hue of the drink is synthetic, added to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Simply put, no, blue Curaçao is not the same as triple sec. In fact, if you ask this snobbish former career bartender turned ...

Time for a pop quiz: Name a liqueur that shares its name with an island. It’s Curacao. Curacao, the island, is part of a group of five autonomous islands known collectively as the Netherlands Antilles ...

For cocktail folks, Curaçao is the orange-flavored liqueur with the inexplicable blue tint that can add a touch of sweetness and brightness to a Mai Tai. But, before it became a staple of the back bar ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate Dingwall is a Toronto-based sommelier and drinks writer. This article is more than 6 years old. Blue curaçao, a liqueur ...

There are blue drinks and then there's Curaçao liqueur. If you've ever had a blue cocktail, chances are you've had something pretending to be real Curaçao, but often it's just a knockoff with blue ...

The legend of Curaçao has to do with the local oranges that form the basis of the famed blue intoxicant liqueur from this Dutch island about 45 miles from the coast of Venezuela. It is said that Dutch ...

WILLEMSTAD: How blue really is Blue Curacao, the sapphire-colored liqueur used to make Blue Lagoon or Blue Hawaii cocktails? Not blue at all is the answer. The brilliant hue of the drink is synthetic, ...

Not blue at all is the answer. The brilliant hue of the drink is synthetic, added to evoke the tint of the Caribbean waters surrounding the eponymous Dutch island, the smallest country to qualify for ...