Kuemmerling is the brandname of a type of Kräuterlikör

Kräuterlikör

Kräuterlikör is a kind of German liqueur that is flavored with herbs or spices and sweetened with sugar. Liqueurs of this kind normally contain 15% to 40% alcohol by volume...

 (herb liqueur) from Germany, belonging to the group of Halbbitter (semi bitters).

This 35% by volume alcohol is a type of bitters

Bitters

A bitters is an alcoholic beverage that is flavored with herbal essences and has a bitter or bittersweet flavor. There are numerous brands of bitters that were formerly marketed as patent medicines but are now considered to be digestifs, rather than medicines...

. It has been in production since 1963 in Bodenheim

Bodenheim

Bodenheim is a state-recognized tourism municipality in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany-Location:...

, near Mainz

Mainz

Mainz under the Holy Roman Empire, and previously was a Roman fort city which commanded the west bank of the Rhine and formed part of the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire...

 using a recipe from 1938. There are about a million bottles of the typical 20 ml type, filled every day at the production facility. Kuemmerling was Germany's fourth-largest spirits brand and the second-largest brand in the bitters category in 2000. The family-owned company sold nearly 680,000 cases per year in 2000 and was bought out by Allied Domecq PLC in 2001; the company was acquired by Fortune Brands in the Pernod Ricard - Fortune Brands joint acquisition of Allied Domecq in 2005. Fortune Brands

Fortune Brands

Fortune Brands was a holding company founded in 1969 as American Brands and later renamed in 1997 and split apart in 2011. The corporate headquarters was in Deerfield, Illinois in the United States. The company historically had a significant diversity of product offerings...

, then sold it to the German company Henkell & Co. in 2010.