Perhaps you’ve tried Fernet-Branca, the super-bitter, pine-y, kinda medicinal Italian digestive that is a staple bottle for bartenders the world over. But Fernet-Branca’s younger sibling, Brancamenta, is much easier to take.

Also made in Milan, the Menta is based on the same recipe of more than 27 herbs and botanicals, but tastes sweeter, and is way heavier on the peppermint. The company created it in response to drinkers adding mint syrup to their fernet-and-colas back in the ’60s. Still classified as an amaro like its elder, it can be taken neat or in highballs, but is very friendly over crushed ice, as a minty, mentholated, 60-proof adult snow cone.