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A few years ago my husband and I spent Christmas with friends in Connecticut. A great uncle came from Sweden and made glögg early in the morning. By evening it had been simmering on the stove all day and it was fantastic. But it really creeps up on you and the hangover can be brutal. Be sure to eat while drinking it.

it's good without alcohol too.
i like it with whole, blanched, skinned almonds
they sell glogg at ikea cheap.
it makes your house smell festive + warm

On a different note, does anyone know where in NYC you can buy Kopparbergs cider? It's also Swedish and yummy. It think it comes comes in pear, elderflower, strawberry and apple flavors.

A few years ago they sold it in Dean and Deluca. After drinking it all summer in Finland and Sweden I was hooked. The last time I looked they didn't have it but they might have just been out that day-good luck!

This is the exact right time to drink glögg: when it gets a little darker and colder and we are starting to think about christmas.
The traditional way of serving glögg is, as mentioned above, with blanched, skinned almonds and in addition to that, raisins and gingerbread cookies. Of course you only put the raisins and almonds into the glögg. The gingerbreads you keep on the side.

just wanted to say that this glögg is from iceland. this is the icelandic flag ;D

You can find Glogg at IKEA.

One can also make this is a lot less hard liquor. Tastes nice too.

*Don't boil*

You can stick of alot of thespices in cheese cloth baggy and avoid the whole straining exercise.

Use honey instead of sugar.

Don;t bother with good wine or liquor. It has to be decent, but there's no point in using anything better. Cheap cheerful plonk, is the order of the day.

I purchased a bottle of Glogg concentrate (looks like the picture on this site). Any suggestions on the best thing to do with that (wine, vodka, rum)?

come to chicago - a lot of local bars make it, many following their own recipes.

I live in Sweden and this is Glögg party season! The way we drink it is to warm it on the stove then throw in some raisins and peeled almonds (chopped up). Yummy! But you can't drink too much because it's sweet it will give you a stomach ache.

Hej Riley, we're in Sweden too! I agree with you on the "yummy". My favorite is to get a cup of it from a street vendor while out looking at all the store windows decorated for Christmas.

I was in Sweden two Christmas seasons ago and stayed with a lovely family on a farm (in the family since the 1300's). They served us the bottled and homemade Glogg and it was good. I kept expecting it to taste like Coke though. What a wonderful Christmas Day. Go Sweden!

Some years back my father died and my mother and I were living in quiet depression for months. A friend of ours came over from Norway to visit for a month. Every evening when I came home from work, she came running with a cheery Hallo! and a cup of warm glogg.

It was so nice to come home to. She helped us to banish our blues permanently. The glogg helped.

Hi Sigga:

Actually, that's not a flag on the bottle ... it's a picture of a window, with frost-trimmed individual panes! (How funny!) This glogg is definitely from Sweden ... I have a bottle!

:)

Jane

there are so many variations of mulled wine in europe.... all are delish :-P

Thank you for the reminder to pick up glogg at Ikea when I go this weekend.

My first trip to the Elizabeth Ikea was much improved by my foodie friend's bringing a thermos of homemade glogg along--although it did seem a bit of a coals-to-Newcastle deal when we saw all the pyramids of bottled glogg. His beat Ikea's, though.

Does the IKEA version even compare?! I can hardly believe so, but IKEA never fails to surprise me.

I made the annual winter solstice glogg last week, and its flavors are marrying in the bottles as I write! Two things that differentiate glogg from other mulled wines are the cardamom seeds and the caramelizing of the sugar before it's added. We always scrape out a generous tablespoonful of the seeds from the pods before adding. And the sugar should be caramelized 'til it's as dark as clover honey, not darker, because it will become bitter. It's so amazingly good!

Doesn't boiling it burn off the alcohol? That would be a shame :)

Does anyone know where in NYC I can purchase Glogg or Glogg mix similar to the one they sell in Ikea? The one in Ikea I purchased years ago was really good, but it seems since the year I purchased that one, they have changed to a different maker, and it is very different. Not quite as strong. I know there used to be a Swedish specialty shop in NYC, but I dont know where it is now. I dont have time to order it online, so need a place I can go buy it than than order it.

Thank you,

Seeker