What European country celebrates Christmas time by drinking glögg?

I'm from Sweden, and I can add that glögg is sweet so small glasses is fine, since you drink it warm and it's hard to drink a big glass of it fast... Many varieties of it nowadays, but the original taste is the best! And, you can have it without almonds and raisins...

This sounds like a great time, might need the recipes for the drinks and spices.

2 cinnamon sticks, broken into pieces 1 tsp. cardamom pods 1 small piece ginger, peeled Zest of ½ orange 6 whole cloves ½ cup vodka 1 750-ml bottle dry red wine 1 cup ruby port or Madeira 1 cup granulated sugar 1 Tbsp. vanilla sugar ½ blanched whole almonds ½ cup dark raisins Preparation Step 1 Crush cinnamon and cardamom in a mortar and pestle (or put them on a cutting board and crush with the bottom of a heavy pot.) Transfer to a small glass jar and add ginger, orange zest, cloves, and vodka. Let sit 1 day. Step 2 Strain vodka through a fine-mesh sieve into a large saucepan; discard spices. Add wine, port, granulated sugar, vanilla sugar, almonds, and raisins and heat over medium just until bubbles start to form around the edges. Step 3 Ladle glögg into mugs, with a few almonds and raisins in each one. Keep any remaining glögg warm over very low heat until ready to serve (do not let it boil).

We have excellent quality wine here in South Africa, but I would still love to taste some glögg.

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We have gløgg in Norway too - one of my favourite Christmas traditions :-)

Hiqq, probably have the Raisins and Almonds in there to give them some food in their stomach

Hiqq, thank you so much for that extra info

Awesome that sounds fun

Now divorced but for years I was married into a Swedish family, and yes the glögg parties were legendary

Glogg parties for the win! Cheers friends

sounds great I wish they made it here in the u.s. I can see why the swedes like it. it loosens themup.

Hiqq, me too

what is the recipe, do you know?

Fun guy, Also the downfall, for me anyway haha

umlaut was the hint..

It's best served warm

Randall Stone, me too.