Review: Hard Truth Peanut Brittle Bourbon Cream
Hard Truth announced the release of Hard Truth Peanut Brittle Bourbon Cream October 21, 2022 on Facebook. Initially only sold at the Hard Truth Distillery in Brown County Indiana, it is now available in the 18 states Hard Truth is distributed. Hard Truth currently crafts 20 spirits including rye, vodka, gin, rum, bourbon, with three spirits made with fresh Wisconsin Dairy cream. The other two are Toasted Coconut Cream, and Maple Bourbon Cream. HT Peanut Brittle Bourbon Cream is made with Indiana Straight Bourbon Whiskey, Real Wisconsin Dairy Cream, and natural peanut flavor. It weighs in at 30 proof, slightly less than the 34 proof Baileys tips the scale at. Read more 
Review: Jim Beam Bourbon Cream
Jim Beam Bourbon Cream was launched October 2021. Beam is not the first bourbon cream on the market, and to be honest, with all of the flavored whiskies Jim Beam Bourbon makes, I’m a little surprised they took this long to produce a bourbon cream of their own. It is made with a Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey base. The bourbon base is made from a secret mix of corn, rye, and barley malt. The spirit is aged in brand new charred oak barrels. Beam does not include an age statement for this bourbon or an ingredient list on the bottle. Jim Beam Bourbon Cream also does not yet appear on their website or Facebook page. Read more
Review: Fennellys Tropical Colada Irish Cream Liqueur
Tropical Colada is one of ten Fennellys Irish Cream liqueurs sold at Total Wine and More stores throughout the US. The others include Original, Apple Pie, Salted Caramel, Almond, Strawberry, Dreamy Light, Cappuccino, Peppermint, and Chocolate Mint. Robert A Merry & Co. makes well over a dozen brands of Irish Cream liqueur including the Fennellys brand in Tipperary Ireland. While it may seem unfair to call Fennellys a discount Baileys copy cat brand, Fennellys is less expensive than Baileys and nine of the ten Fennellys flavor varieties were already made by Baileys before Fennellys introduced theirs. Read more
Review: Middle West Spirits Bourbon Cream
Middle West Spirits Bourbon Cream was released October 2020. It is crafted from a blend of OYO Michelone Reserve Bourbon and sweet cream. Michelone Reserve Bourbon is made from a blend of yellow corn, soft red winter wheat, dark pumpernickel rye, and two row barley. It is distilled in a 55 foot custom Vendome Copper & Brass Works Still and aged in new charred white oak barrels that are made in Speyside Scotland. Read more
Review: Ballotin Chocolate Peanut Butter Cream
Ballotin Chocolate Peanut Butter Cream was released April 2021. It is one of eight chocolate flavored whiskies flying the Ballotin banner. The others include Bourbon Ball, Caramel Turtle, Chocolate Cherry Cream, Chocolate Mint, Chocolate Mocha Cream, and Original Chocolate. Paul Tuell a former brand manager for Brown-Forman founded Saloon Spirits April 2015 in Louisville Kentucky. Each bottle of Ballotin starts with a sourced whiskey made from a traditional Bourbon mash with at least 51% corn. Wheat and barley make up the balance. The whiskey is aged for three years in previously used oak barrels. Chocolate peanut butter cream liqueur made from real dairy cream is blended before bottling at 34 proof. Read more
Review: Skatter Brain Peanut Butter Cream Liqueur
Skatter Brain Peanut Butter Cream Liqueur was recently released. It is one of five Skatter Brain spirits made from a Canadian whisky base. All are sold at Total Wine and More locations throughout the US. The other whiskey varieties include Skatter Brain Peanut Butter, PB&J, Dark Cherry Vanilla, & Dark Chocolate Banana. Each is made by Universal Brands in Princeton Minnesota. As peanut butter flavored whiskey sales continue to grow we have seen several brands add a secondary flavor to their peanut butter whiskey. In this case cream is the secondary flavor added. Skatter Brain Peanut Butter Cream Liqueur is not the first to add cream to their peanut butter flavored whiskey, and they will not be the last. Read more
Review: Baileys Apple Pie
Baileys Apple Pie was just released. Just as we were expecting a press release announcing the annual late September release of Baileys Pumpkin Spice, Diageo surprised us with the apple pie and vanilla ice cream inspired Baileys Apple Pie. This makes sense as Crown Royal Regal Apple, another Diageo owned product, is the second best selling flavored whiskey, behind only Fireball in sales. Apple Pie is one of 3 Limited Edition releases Baileys has in their stable of 10 Irish cream liqueurs they sell in the US. That’s more flavor varieties than they sell in any market they serve, including the UK. Baileys Apple Pie starts with the same Irish dairy cream, triple distilled Irish whiskey and spirits recipe they use to create Original Baileys Irish Cream. Natural flavors are blended before bottling at 34 proof. Read more
Review: Whisper Creek Peanut Butter Chocolate Cream Liqueur
Whisper Creek Peanut Butter Chocolate Cream Liqueur is produced at Pennington Distilling CO. in Nashville Tennessee. It is made from premium aged charcoal mellowed Tennessee Whiskey made at Speakeasy Spirits. Fresh dairy cream and natural flavors are blended before filling their old-time milk jug with the 40 proof spirit. Whisper Creek is made from a 100% whiskey base. Most Irish Cream liqueurs supplement their Irish Whiskey base with neutral grain spirits. Jenny and Jeff Pennington launched their Original Whisper Creek Tennessee Sipping Cream in 2012 and have since added Whisper Creek Mocha Cream, and Whisper Creek Pumpkin Spice Cream. Read more
Review: Ballotin Chocolate Cherry Whiskey Cream
Ballotin Chocolate Cherry Whiskey Cream is the newest member of the Ballotin Chocolate whiskey line of spirits. The others include Ballotin Original Chocolate, Bourbon Ball, Caramel Turtle, and Chocolate Mint. The Ballotin spirit line was launched in 2015 by Paul Tuell who worked at Brown-Forman for over 20 years, Jeff Stum, and Robert Aubry. Together they formed Saloon Spirits. Saloon Spirits sources the whiskey from other producers before blending it at beverage development company Flavorman. The label reads Ballotin Chocolate Cherry Whiskey Cream is made with a blend of craft chocolate, cherry cream liqueur, and fine whiskey. The light whiskey base is made from a mash of 51% or more corn, with wheat and barley making up the balance. Read more
Review: Ezra Brooks Bourbon Cream
Ezra Brooks Bourbon Cream was recently released. It is made with all natural cream and Kentucky straight bourbon. Evan Brooks Bourbon was first created in 1957 by Frank Silverman to take advantage of the national shortage of Jack Daniels. It featured the same square bottle as Jack, with a black and white wrap around label, and it was also bottled at 90 proof. Though he claimed it was made at the Ezra Brooks Distilling Company the bourbon was actually distilled and sourced from the Hoffman Distillery in Lawrenceburg Kentucky. It is now distilled at the Heaven Hill Distillery, and the brand is owned by St Louis based Luxco. The bourbon is distilled with high quality corn, barley and rye at very controlled specific temperatures, and then aged in new charred American white oak barrels. A charcoal filtering follows. Read more