De Kuyper Blue Curacao

The De Kuyper Royal Distillery can trace their history to 1695. Petrus De Kuyper worked for a coppersmith whose casks were used for transporting Dutch gin and beer. In 1729, his son, Johannes, bought a distillery in Schiedam – the centre of Dutch gin production. Johannes De Kuypers distillery began producing Dutch gin principally for export to Britain and her colonies. In 1920, De Kuyper began producing liqueurs and, by the 1930s De Kuyper had produced almost twenty varieties including Apricot Brandy, Cherry Brandy, Triple Sec and Créme de Menthe. In the 1960s liqueurs became De Kuypers core business and they sponsored the first-ever cocktail competitions. Somehow the colour blue always reminds us of a tropical island in the sun. The essence of this liqueur is the Curacao or Lahara fruit. Capturing the soul of this fabulous fruit makes a distinctive and unique liqueur. Famous for the Blue Lagoon cocktail and making drinks look, well, blue.