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I'm guessing I will add the moonshine label to this review. I mean, I guess Sugarlands Shine is a slightly different label, but if you make good moonshine, why wouldn't you use it as the basis for your hard cream? Aging it in wood to make whiskey seems pointless when you're going to add sweet cream that will almost definitely mask the flavor of the wood in the first place. I suppose this could use some other source of alcohol, but I'm sticking with moonshine.
I will stretch a bit and say that this is a bit more yellow than the average cream I try. The thing about this is that the color isn't the thing that jumps out at me. It's the smell. It doesn't smell like birthday cake. It smells like wet cardboard. When you get close to it, the cardboard gets sweet, and it smell like that odd sheet icing that professional bakers use when making wedding cakes. It's very strange.
First sip honestly tastes like they took icing, melted it down, and mixed it with moonshine. It's not a great combo. It's way better than white lightning or something similar, but the flavors aren't meshing, and the icing just seems to be there to water things down a bit. I wish I could taste actual cake, despite not actually liking cake very much.
Continued sipping shows that the cloying nature of the sweet creams isn't as bad in this one, but the flavor gets bland as the beverage warms a little. It's not terrible, but it's not great. And these sweet creams really should be pretty great across the board. Maybe I'll grab a Bailey's next time I'm at the store.
Bottom Line: Nothing outstanding.
2.25/5
