Liqueur
Peppermint Schnapps
Peppermint schnapps is a sweet, clear liqueur with an intense, ice-cold peppermint flavour — despite the German name, the American style is not a true fruit-macerate schnapps at all but a sweetened, mint-flavoured cordial built to taste like liquid candy cane, bracing and cooling on the tongue.
Sweet32.5% ABV
At a glance
Signature
Peppermint & Menthol
Cooling
Strength
Spirituous
32.5% ABV
Aggressively sweet and clean, peppermint schnapps leads with a bright, ice-cold peppermint aroma driven by menthol — the compound that fools the mouth into feeling a chill — layered over plain sugar and a faint herbal, camphorous edge. The texture ranges from thin and watery in low-proof bottlings to lightly syrupy in sweeter ones, and the alcohol can be gentle or fierce depending on proof, the 100-proof versions delivering a hot spirit burn beneath the candy-cane sweetness. The finish is cooling and lingering, leaving the tongue and throat feeling frosty long after the sweetness fades, like a swallowed candy cane.
Taste balance
BitternessSmooth
SmoothBitter
StrengthStrong
LightStrong