It seems to me like it has been quite some time since I reviewed any new beverages from Baileys. Indeed, when I went back to look, the last one I had was the chocolate cherry version of their illustrious Irish cream, and I wasn't particularly taken with it. It was good, but it didn't do a whole lot for me. Two years later, and I came across this apple pie version of their cream. Will this be just another another notch, or have they potentially found something new and good that they can do with their cream?
As usual, there is very little to note about the presentation of the beverage. It's a sort of muddy cream, and the nature of it being a liquor means that it has the weepers the come down the sides when the glass is sloshed around. The aroma is sweet, creamy, and it does have quite a bit of cinnamon added to it. I'm not sure that I would pick this out as apple pie from just the aroma. I can't really pick out the sweet scent of apples, but the cream is already sweet to begin with, and the cinnamon seems to overpower almost everything else. I can't imagine this is going to be like a cinnamon moonshine.First sip is excellent. It is, indeed, apple pie. As many moonshines have tried to come up with an apple pie version of their moonshine, the prodigious alcohol in those beverages always precluded the real possibility that they would make it. This creamy beverage makes it taste more like the apple pie has vanilla ice cream on top, and it turns out, that's what it needed. Subsequent sips are, if anything, more delightful than the first. This beverage is very sweet, so I wouldn't be quaffing this every day, but if you sit down on a cool autumn night by the fire, this may warm you up on the inside as well.
Bottom Line: Excellent work.
4.25/5