Post #801156 by nui 'umi 'umi on Thu, Mar 5, 2020 10:13 PM

On 2020-03-05 20:42, Hamo wrote:

On 2020-03-04 23:28, nui 'umi 'umi wrote:
Nice pic Jon. Good looking drink. What is Alchermes?

I wondered the same thing, so I asked the internet:
Sounds like a great tiki ingredient. Oh, wait a minute....

Sumpin bugs me about it.

I wonder how difficult it is to find in the wild.

Ham, I too was curious and my searching revealed that the red color of alchermes was made, in days of old, by crushing the shells of a scale insect. Dey don’t do dat no mo.
I was just teasing Jon a little bit.
Cheers
Btw, Hi Times has it for 38 bucks( American made) and the Tuscanany distilled for bout $32.