Amer liqueur is the star ingredient in the Picon Punch, a traditional cocktail with ties to Basque-American communities in the West. The cocktail, subject of a locally produced documentary ...

Picon punch is widely considered to be the unofficial state drink of Nevada, but there's more to its story than being a darling of the Silver State bar scene.

and the bittersweet French liqueur, Amer Picon. The cocktail is frequently credited to theater actor and playwright Maurice Hegeman while he was a regular at Brooklyn’s Schmidt Cafe in 1910.