Digestifs often serve as a companion to dessert, and are often sweet and easy to sip. As with aperitifs, there are both sweet and complex drinks classified as digestifs. If serving digestifs with dessert, try to match the dessert with the digestif; sweet desserts prefer sweeter drinks, while crackers or cookies prefer a complex cocktail.

In the last decade, it has begun to become popular to order sweet digestifs at bars in lieu of other drinks, and I have often seen folks who will pass a night with nothing but sweet drinks passing their lips.