Brontë Liqueur

[liits]

My toilet reading this week is “A Guide to the City of Leeds”.

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Not so much a guide, more of an advertorial type of thing with the advertisers getting a bit of a write-up in the text.
Although only produced in the early 60’s, many of the firms are long gone and so too, or so I thought, was one of Gale, Lister’s products; Brontë Liqueur.

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I’ve heard of Gale, Lister, they’re still on the go – at least the name is, as part of Mount Charlotte Hotels group, but I’d never heard of Brontë Liqueur. Ebay and suchlike is full of [empty] bottles if you collect that sort of thing.

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A quick trawl of the net shows that it is still possible to by a Brontë Liqueur but not the Brontë Liqueur.
Its now made by Alexander Muir & Sons, purveyors if cheap tat “exclusive” whisky. A link to their website for the liqueur is here.....http://www.bronteliqueur.com/
It seems that Muir's only use the name, the original being a blend of brandy, honey and herbs, their modern version being blackberry, sloe, honey and herbs.
I’m always a bit sceptical of things like this, anything outside the four main groups of spirits, to my mind, tasting like cough mixture.
Does anybody remember the original liqueur and did you taste it, or have you tried the new version?

[blackprince]

"I’m always a bit sceptical of things like this, anything outside the four main groups of spirits, to my mind, tasting like cough mixture.
Does anybody remember the original liqueur and did you taste it, or have you tried the new version?"
Hi Lilts,
Sorry to say I can't say I have tasted either.
By the 4 main groups of spirits I assume you mean Whisky, Brandy, Gin/Vodka and Rum?
I am partial to some liqueurs, which I first tasted as a child in boxes of chocolate liqueurs, only at Xmas of course, in those days of real austerity. I expect you are partial to a certain "totally tropical" soft drink

The guide to Leeds is an interesting find -I expect there are other forgotten gems in It? -BP