Advocaat - do all brands taste the same?

papoosue

Does anyone know if advocaat that isn't Warninks tastes the same? Warninks is about £9 and others are more like £5?

PasturesNew

I've no idea. I am going to get a £5 bottle for Xmas.
I plan to make 1/2 pint snowballs with it, so I figure it's fine.

Also, don't forget to check the alcohol content - maybe the cheaper ones are less %proof

papoosue

Ah, right. I never thought about the alcohol content, good point.

Thanks

Susan

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've no idea. I am going to get a £5 bottle for Xmas.
I plan to make 1/2 pint snowballs with it, so I figure it's fine.

Also, don't forget to check the alcohol content - maybe the cheaper ones are less %proof

Mutantk

I bought the cheap £4 ish one in Tesco today and made Nigella's eggnog cream - was delicious. Tried to drink on it's own too and was very impressed, would buy cheap one again.

FriendlyJ

To be honest have tried both & if your adding lime juice/lemonade etc it doesn't make a deal of difference. Its not something we drink often enough to know the difference.
Bottoms up :beer:
J

maypole

I tried the cheaper one in ASDA and it was ok, but the one from LIDL was not nice, it seemed cloying.

I love snowballs.

PasturesNew

My Snowball Recipe

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1 measure of advocaat into a half pint glass
1 measure of lime cordial into the glass
Top up with fizzy lemonade*

I pour the lime, then the lemonade into the same measure as the advocaat so as to not waste a drop!

If you're posh, then stick some cherries on sticks across the top of the glass.

*If you've not had this before, it's worth tasting it from half a glass upwards. See at which point you prefer the thickness of the mix.

Bottoms up!

Dot52

No - I have just poured a whole bottle of the Tesco advocaat down the sink. It doesnt have any brandy in it but some 'neutral spirit' - horrible. Dont waste your money.

Pollycat

NECROPOST ALERT

This thread was started in December 2007.
And the OP hasn't logged on to MSE for over a year.

de_artie

no idea...

zanuda

Pollycat wrote: »

NECROPOST ALERT

This thread was started in December 2007.
And the OP hasn't logged on to MSE for over a year.

But the snowball recipe was a really good discovery (for me) :beer: So, I would not mind if such a useful threads were dug out.

As for "Advocate", in my student's days we did it ourself. It's just egg yolks beaten with sugar (+vanilla), then you add alcohol. And it tasted as good as the one from the shops...