Cocktails with Fernet-Branca
Fernet-Branca is an intensely bitter Italian amaro with menthol and herbal flavors. Beloved by bartenders as a digestif and increasingly in cocktails.
4 drinks with fernet-branca
What it tastes like
- aroma
- Menthol, Herbs, Bitter, Eucalyptus, Earthy
- taste
- Intensely bitter, Menthol, Herbal, Medicinal
- finish
- Long, Bitter, Cooling, Cleansing
History
Created in Milan in 1845 by Bernardino Branca as a medicinal tonic. Fernet survived Prohibition as 'medicine' and became Argentina's national drink. It's now a bartender's handshake—ordering it signals industry membership.