Limonccelo or Amaretto, Underberg or Yegermeister, diestif liquors remain a European ritual.

People outside Europe who are not familiar with it, usually get drunk the most ridiculous way and an indication for this is the last year's scandal with George Clooney and Danny De Vito. "We were just sitting in a restaurant", said Clooney, "We have not gone out to get drunk. We were sitting in the restaurant and were drinking [LIMONCCELO!]. Then I went to bed at 11:30 and when got up in the morning at 7, I was still drunk.

Such things usually do not happen to Europeans. Every European knows that digestifs should be sipped. But this exhausts the unanimity about their use.

In Europe, around this kind of alcohol have been conducted for years several debates of medical nature.

First, when is it better to take digestifs - before or after meals?

According to some such drinks work best if they are taken before meals, because the bitterness of some of them stimulate in advance stomach juices and makes digestion quick and efficient.

According to their opponents, however, it is much better to pour the digestif on the already taken food, because it is better that stomach first starts to work on its own and then be supported by this specific medicine. Among other things, digestifs are a pleasant gustatory ending of an abundant dinner.

Nevertheless, these considerations remain in the common sense and there is no evidence to support either one or the other theory for digestifs' healing properties.

It is best that every person adopts his own approach and to take these liqueurs according to his own taste and their qualities. It is true that more bitter ones really act pleasantly before eating, while the sweet ones are excellent during and after desserts.

And here we reach to the second major dispute - which liqueur is digestif, and which is not.

Because such drinks have always been considered something relatively harmless, many try to tuck in their group their favorite fruit, grape and anise brandies, as well as all possible liqueurs.

More conservative school argues that to be classified as helping digestion, a drink must be bitter. This taste as a whole is absent from the European food diet and its adding stimulates separation of gastric juices.

Firmly in the group are series of Italian liqueurs produced by peels of citrus fruit and nuts. Moreover, the originating from the region of Amalfi Limonccelo - it can be seen from its name, that it is made from lemons, South Apennines are the home of Arancello - made from the grown in the area red oranges, Amaretto - from almonds, Nocino - from green nuts used
together with rinds and Frangelico from hazelnuts.