Berger

Since 1823, in Couvet located in the canton of Neufchâtel in Switzerland, the Berger absinthe already smelled good of anise, star anise and fennel. Anglo-Saxon amateurs of gin and whiskies, as well as the distillers of German-speaking Switzerland did not hesitate to denounce an intoxicated Switzerland with the vapors of this poison at 72° alcohol, and that was competing with their products. The decrees of October 7, 1907 and the prohibition of 1917 gave a fatal blow to Absinthe. In May, Charles Frederic Berger, Swiss trader (pronounced "burgur"), left to his son the management of the distillery of Couvet, to try this luck in the French market by opening a factory in Marseilles. On the Mediterranean coast. the flavour of anise from time immemorial was privileged. In 1923, the first aniseed aperitif Berger, who is not called yet pastis, is born in the new factory. Integrated into the Marie Brizard Group since 1995, it ties its roots of aniseed aperitif almost bicentenary with the famous Marie Brizard Anisette of 1755.

Berger  in  Quebec