Where Has All the Chartreuse Gone?

Re:Where Has All the Chartreuse Gone? by forgotOldLogin on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @08:21AM (#34968958)

If you like chartreuse and want something in a similar vein, I'd highly suggest Strega, an Italian herbal liqueur often stocked on the same shelf as chartreuse.

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Re:Where Has All the Chartreuse Gone? by klodolph on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @08:59AM (#34969337)

Nearly every popular branded liqueur or aromatized wine has a number of substitutes available, but it sometimes takes research to know what they are.

Easy to find Kahlua alternatives; it’s a coffee liqueur and that’s not hard to find.

A little more challenging to find a Campari or Cocchi Americano alternative. There are lots of similar options and it’s not obvious whether an aperitif liqueur is a substitute for Campari or Aperol, for example.

Nice to know what the Chartreuse alternatives are.

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Re:Where Has All the Chartreuse Gone? by Pxtl on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @11:13AM (#34970925)

Yes. The alcohol world's fixation on everything being strictly-controlled names makes the process of finding substitutes absurdly tedious. Like if I want bourbon but I don't want to support the red states that make it, there's no coherent term for "caramel-tasting corn-heavy whiskey".

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