The Bittersweet 'Champagne of Maine'

[Gifted Gourmet]

article from the Washington Post

The dark-brown liquid that some people call "the champagne of Maine" tastes, to the uninitiated, like equal parts alcohol, sugar and coffee-pot slag. It puckers the cheeks, coats the tongue with syrupy sweetness and leaves a mouthwash feeling on the lips... the number-one-for-20-years-running liquor obsession of Maine. Allen's Coffee Flavored Brandy is the most popular hard liquor in Maine, with 98,000 cases of 60-proof drink sold annually.   "I've thought, in more than one case, that you can put it on someone's headstone," In this state, it turns out, everything that is both fun and tragic about alcohol is embodied in the same intensely bittersweet drink.

I actually never knew about this drink .. a very interesting read ...

Maine resident Johnnyd, do you have more to say on this drink?

the chart tells the story ...