Goat--the beverage: for the initiated, half the fun of offering someone a glass of 'chevre' is to see the look of confusion that usually ensues; the other half comes from the 'ums' and 'ahs' of the novice tasting the frothy, sweet, cool drink.

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Goat--the beverage: for the initiated, half the fun of offering someone a glass of 'chevre' is to see the look of confusion that usually ensues; the other half comes from the 'ums' and 'ahs' of the novice tasting the frothy, sweet, cool drink.

To most French-speakers, including natives of Geneva, the word 'chevre' means goat, and is sometimes used as a shortened form of 'fromage de chevre', or goat's cheese. But this 'chevre'--like the goat, a feminine noun--doesn't even have anything to do with goat's milk, although the name is said to come from the way the alcoholic, fruit-based beverage comes out of the barrel tap: ...

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