Triple sec - wikipedia Triple sec Triple sec Type Liqueur Manufacturer ( various ) Country of origin Saumur, France Introduced 1849 Alcohol by volume 15 % to 40 % Color Clear, golden, blue Flavor Orange Triple sec, ( meaning `` Triple distilled '' ) originally Curaçao triple sec, is a strong, sweet and colorless orange flavored liqueur. It is a variety of Curaçao liqueur, an orange - flavoured liqueur made from the dried peels of bitter and sweet orange. ' Triple sec ' is so named because of the triple - copper - still - distillation process through which the oranges or fruits that go into it are subjected. The ' sec ' part of ' triple sec ' means `` dry '' and is borrowed directly from French, sec, which, in turn, received it from the Classical Latin word, siccus and the cognate Classical Latin verbal infinitive, siccare, which means `` to dry ; to dry up ; to make dry ; to remove moisture. '' This sense of ' dry ' is not dry in the sense of ' lack of sweetness ' of the liquor or spirit, as is in the case with wine - speak ; it is a semantic derivative of it. It is the fact that the oranges and fruits that go into triple sec are dried prior to the distillation process. Triple sec may be consumed neat as a digestif or on the rocks, but is more typically used as an ingredient in a variety of cocktails such as sangria, margarita, Kamikaze, White Lady, Long Island Iced Tea, Sidecar, Skittle Bomb, Corpse Reviver # 2 and Cosmopolitan. History The Combier distillery claims that triple sec was invented some time between 1834 and 1848 by Jean - Baptiste Combier in Saumur, France. However, Combier was more famous for its élixir Combier, which contained orange but also many other flavorings. According to Cointreau, its orange liqueur was created in 1849. Triple sec was certainly widely known by 1878 ; at the Exposition Universelle of 1878 in Paris, several distillers were offering `` Curaço ( sic ) triple sec '' as well as `` Curaço doux ''. See also Curaçao liqueur Grand Marnier List of liqueurs Cointreau References Jump up ^ `` Bar None Drinks '' ( www.barnonedrinks.com/tips/dictionary/t/triple-sec-922.html ) Jump up ^ Harper, Douglas. `` sec ''. Online Etymological Dictionary. Douglas Harper. Retrieved 30 March 2017. Jump up ^ Austin, Robin Alix. `` A Brief History of Triple Sec ''. The Amateur Gastronomer. Robin Alix Austin. Retrieved 30 March 2017. Jump up ^ The Combier web site says that Combier 's confectionery store opened in 1834, but says only that Triple Sec was invented `` à cette époque '' as a filling for his candies and chocolates ; it also does not mention when Combier 's Triple Sec was actually commercialized. Jump up ^ `` Les liquoristes saumurois '' in Saumur jadis, anonymous Web publication at ( 1 ) cites Richard Gasnier, Les liquoristes saumurois de 1830 à 1910, mém. de maîtrise, Angers, 2000, B.U. de l'U.C.O., 15 747 ; François Bouyssi et Isabelle Emeriau, `` James Combier ( 1842 -- 1917 ). Essai biographique... '', S.L.S.A.S.,, 1992, pp. 46 -- 89 ; Alain Mariez, `` Un zeste d'orange, deux doigts d'ambition '', L'Anjou, décembre 1995, pp. 70 -- 77 ; Christelle Couvreux, Marie Bardisa, La Distillerie Combier. Saumur, Itinéraires du Patrimoine, 1999. Jump up ^ ( 2 ). Jump up ^ The Lancet Analytical Commission, `` Report on the Food Products exhibited in the French and English Departments of the Universal Exhibition of Paris '', The Lancet, September 21, 1878, p. 417f. 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Question: where is triple sec in the grocery store
Answer: a strong, sweet and colorless orange flavored liqueur