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Fernet ([ferˈnɛt]) is an Italian type of amaro, a bitter, aromatic spirit. Fernet is made from a number of herbs and spices which vary according to the brand, but usually include myrrh, rhubarb, chamomile, cardamom, aloe, and especially saffron, with a base of grape distilled spirits, and colored with caramel coloring.
Contents
- How to drink fernet branca drink this tonight 9
- Equipto and mike marshall i drink fernet feat skeptic and cognito official video
- Popularity
- Cocktails
- In popular culture
- References
Fernet is usually served as a digestif after a meal but may also be served with coffee and espresso or mixed into coffee and espresso drinks. It typically contains 45% alcohol by volume. It may be served at room temperature or with ice.
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Popularity
It is very popular in Argentina, where it was introduced by Italians during the Great European immigration wave to the country. It is particularly associated with Córdoba Province, which has been called "the world fernet capital"; almost 3 million litres are consumed there annually, representing just under 30 percent of national consumption. National production is around 25 million liters, 35% sold in Buenos Aires Province and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. Fratelli Branca is by far the most popular brand in the country, leading the market and reaching a "mythical" status. Other popular brands include 1882, Capri, Ramazzotti and Vittone. Fernet is commonly mixed with Coca-Cola. The massively popular drink (Fernet-Cola) was invented during the mid-1980s in Córdoba, encouraged by an advertisement by Fratelli Branca, and spread to Buenos Aires during the 1990s, its popularity growing steadily ever since. In fact, fernet has had the highest growth in consumption in the last 10 years. The popularity of fernet is so strong, that many bars in Buenos Aires have removed it from their menus to encourage consumption of more expensive drinks.
The drink has been popular in the San Francisco Bay Area since before Prohibition. In 2008, San Francisco accounted for 25% of US consumption. San Francisco bars usually serve fernet as a shot followed by a ginger ale chaser.
Cocktails
Fernet can be mixed into cocktails, though the strong taste can overwhelm other ingredients. It can replace bitters in recipes; for instance, the Fanciulli cocktail is a Manhattan with fernet instead of Angostura bitters.
The chef Fergus Henderson offers a recipe, entitled both "A Miracle" and "Dr. Henderson" that approximates Branca Menta by combining two parts fernet with one part crème de menthe over ice. The recipe describes this cocktail as a cure for overindulgence.
In popular culture
Fernet receives a mention in the novel Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
"Two Fernet please" - a drink order request in Le notti di Cabiria [Nights of Cabiria], directed by Federico Fellini - 1957 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
In The Sopranos Season 1 Episode 5 "College," the character Carmela Soprano tells her priest that she was "having a little fernet. It settles the system." .
It forms the titular subject of James Hamilton-Paterson's 2004 novel of Tuscany expatriate life, Cooking with Fernet Branca
In the 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises, Bruce Wayne's butler Alfred Pennyworth remembers himself sitting in Florence, Italy drinking a Fernet Branca.
Fernet Branca (as Fernet-Branca) is mentioned in the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt.
Fernet was reported to be the favorite drink of 2007 U.S. Open (golf) winner Ángel Cabrera.