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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.



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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