Ancient Celtic settlers brought this honey-based drink to Brittany.

Brewers freeze their beer to make this high-octane, sweet style.

Artichokes form the backbone of this vegetal liqueur.

The same grass that feeds massive European bison adds notes of vanilla and lavender to this unique Polish vodka.

This French fortified wine is left outside for a year, aging amid rain and swinging temperatures.

When the clock strikes midnight on the third Thursday of November, fans gather to celebrate the release of this fresh, fruity wine.

This lager, once considered the strongest beer in the world, is brewed only on Saint Nicholas's Day.

"Monk's Head" cheese requires a special shaver.

Once made by monks, this candy spends 15 days rolling in sugar syrup to get its pearly-white shell.

This decadent cheese has frugal roots.

These almond cakes resembling gold ingots were sold near the Paris stock exchange.

Some Bretons claim that their signature treat is the fattiest pastry in the world.

The melon has its own sculpture, festival, and order of knights.

A town in East France still makes a beloved green-anise liquor born after the ban of absinthe.

Only two silent monks know all 130 plants that go into this herbal liqueur.

Locals joke that you should be able to “float a horseshoe” on the thick brew.