Southern Comfort is a fruit, spice, and whiskey flavored liqueur produced since 1874. It is made from a blend of whiskey, orange, vanilla, sugar, and cinnamon flavors. The Brown-Forman Corporation owns the Southern Comfort brand.
Southern Comfort is available as 100 US proof (50% alcohol by volume), 76 US proof (38% alcohol by volume), 70 US proof (35% alcohol by volume) and 42 US proof (21% alcohol by volume). In Australia and New Zealand, it is only available as 60 proof. It is often erroneously thought to be bourbon whiskey based—it is actually neutral grain spirits-based.http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/13/WIGHDLM92J1.DTL Southern Comfort Reserve, however, is a blend of Southern Comfort and 6-year-old bourbon and is 40 percent alcohol.
