This article is about an alcoholic beverage. For
Xenosaga character, see Minor chracters in Xenosaga. Kirschwasser, German for "cherry water", (pronounced ), often known simply as Kirsch (from German "Kirsche" for "cherry") in the English-speaking world, is a clear
brandy made from double
distillation of the
fermented juice of a small black
cherry. It is colorless because either it is not aged in wood or it is aged in
barrels made of
ash. The cherries used recently can be either sweet or sour, but in the past the
sour morello cherry was used with the pit crushed down. As the morello cherry was originally grown all around the
Black Forest in southern
Germany, the drink is believed to have originated there.
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