Gammel Dansk Dram
Denmark's bitter dram, poured small at room temperature and drunk to a toast
Ingredients
- 1 ozGammel DanskRoom temperature, poured small
Instructions
- Keep the bottle at room temperature
Deliberately not chilled, unlike most bitter liqueurs
- Pour 1 oz into a small shot glass
- Raise the glass, say skål, and drink it in one
Technique Notes
Room temperature, not chilled. Cold flattens the orange and cinnamon into a single bitter note, and this is one of the few bottles on the site that is genuinely better warm.
Why the Gammel Dansk Dram Works
Almost every other bottle on this site improves with cold; this one does not. Gammel Dansk is built on orange, cinnamon and gentian, and those separate out at room temperature into something actually tasteable in the second it spends in the mouth.