A colleague came back from Denmark and gifted me these Schnapps. Is there a particular way to drink them ? I have never had any.

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  4. These are Swedish, but it shouldn’t make a difference.

    Basically there are two main ways of drinking snaps, both of which are done from shot glasses (or something if similar size, 2-4 cL). I’ll use whisky as an analogy.

    1. Served straight from the freezer (akin to “on the rocks”), which tones down the taste and makes for easy shots – usually done if you just want to get hammered and/or don’t like the taste.
    2. Served at room temp, which allows you to taste and smell the different herbs and fruits, gives the snaps more of a kick, and what I would recommend with this “tasting set”. These would be wasted if chugged ice cold, similar to someone icing a tasting board of whisky, some might say that you ruin the entire point.

  8. My personal favorite would be for the snaps to be at room temp, and served with some pickled herring (depending on where you live this may be difficult to find) on rye bread. If you haven’t had picked herring before I’d go with “karry sild” (curry herring) from a brand like “Glyngøre” and add a hard boiled (soft yolk) egg on top

  9. Ask in r/sweden. But don’t put them in the freezer! Freezing them is primarily done to soften the taste of cumin. Many people don’t like that taste, so when they have their yearly schnapps around christmas time, they do what they can to not taste the ~~cumin~~ caraway, which is abundant in most common schnapps. Which of course is fine, people shouldn’t be forced to taste ~~cumin~~ caraway, if they don’t like it. (Why do they even drink it then? We honestly don’t know, drinking stuff we don’t really like seems to be Danish tradition)

    What you have here, on the other hand, is not your common everyday schnapps. It’s a selection of different kinds and tastes, and it would be a real shame to put them in the freezer, as you won’t be able to taste it as well.

    If you just want to drink them very fast to get shit faced, that will definitely be easier if they’ve been in the freezer. Otherwise don’t.

  10. Snaps is most often drunk as digestives or palate cleaners while you eat fatty foods. Most commonly herring or pork. In Sweden also crayfish.

    Snaps should be room temperature or chilled, but not from the freezer. Only snaps like “Rød Aalborg” with a heavy taste of caraway benefits from being freezing cold.

    Snaps should be drunk simultaneously by everyone around the table. Never individually. You raise your glasses, look each other in the eyes, say cheers and drink half or all in one go.

    Ideally you also sing a song for that specific purpose before you drink. A culture particularly strong in Sweden. ”Helan” is the most well known: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helan_Går

  13. I’m not Danish, however I’m Faroese and I do enjoy schnapps. As mentioned these aren’t Danish schnapps, but you’ve come to the right place to ask for advice to drink them as Swedes can’t drink anything stronger than 2.8%. I believe it’s a genetic disorder.

    The clear schnapps will benefit from refrigeration, as they’ll probably taste mostly of alcohol – however the ones with colours I wouldn’t refrigerate to less than 8 degrees Celsius.

    Don’t drink schnapps on an empty stomack and preferably never alone.

    EDIT: Woah! This blew up. Thanks for the award fellow redditor

    EDIT2: Gold award! Thank you all kind (most probably all Danish) redditors, you’re most kind and I am grateful being part of the best kingdom in the Nordics. All the others are ruled by little girls.

  18. First you get some rugbrød, then you put a sild on top with some karrysalat.

    Then pore a 4 cl. snaps in a shot.

    Then you take one bite of the mad, and only one, before you put down the knive and fork, and say (and this is very importent): “Nååå, should we smage å en”.

    Then drink the shot and countinue eating

  23. By Allah, the Most Merciful, you just insulted me and all my ancestors. May you step in something smelly!

  29. Jeg forsøger altid på bedste diplomatiske vis at bekræfte overfor mine svenske kolleger og kunder at de skam også har sjove komikere. Mange danskere elskede når ham Fleksnes var på tv.

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