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I genuinely don't know what to expect from this particular weird beverage. It says that the distillery was established in 1865, and it looks like the bottle should be behind a barkeeper in an old west movie. This is probably the reason that they still sell it, as it's very kitchy, and honestly, it's the reason I bought it. This is a cool ass bottle with a weird name that you would never expect anything other than something followed by the word tonic to be on.
I'm not sure I'd call the taste intense. A little sip reveals to me a very nice apple flavor with a little bit of cinnamon and possibly some vanilla mixed in. It is quite sweet, as you might expect from a liqueur, but I don't know that the sweetness is to its detriment. As long as you sip it, it shouldn't become too cloying.
Subsequent sips make me think that this would be a very good beverage for sipping while smoking a big fat cigar or, for preference, a pipe with some sweet tobacco. I'm not encouraging anyone to smoke, but that's what I envision people doing in 1865 with this bottle. I assume, much like most liqueurs, this is supposed to be mixed with something, but I generally don't mix whenever I do reviews, and I wouldn't know what to mix it with, anyway. If it has something to detract from it, it is that it is very simple, and it's kind of uninspiring. I imagine myself forgetting this, were it not for the weird name and bottle.
After sipping a while, I was wrong. It becomes quite cloying, if you don't have something to cut it with. Maybe this'd be better with some ice.
Bottom Line: Sweet and appley just like it says on the label. Maybe too sweet.
2.0/5
