Need a dessert-ready drink to toast for St. Patrick’s Day, however not occupied with mixing up an entire cocktail? Then you definately could be within the temper for an Irish Cream! Sometimes made with Irish Whiskey, contemporary cream, and sugar—and infrequently involving chocolate, espresso, or different flavors, it is good for many who need to have a good time with one thing stiffer than a green beer however sweeter than a glass of straight whiskey. However first, let’s study a bit of about this distinctive drink.
The place did Irish Cream come from?
Whereas Irish whiskey has been made since at the least the 1600s—and Irish cream has been round since, properly, Irish cows—the concept of mixing them right into a drink—on the market at the least—did not arrive until 1973. That is when two businessmen, making an attempt to provide you with a gross sales concept, spent “about 45 minutes” with a blender, inventing what finally turned, the following yr, Baileys. It was, as they are saying, a good suggestion: Baileys has bought properly over a billion bottles since then.
How do you drink Irish Cream?
Opposite to common perception, you do not put it in your Irish espresso — at the least not historically. Whereas it is rather tasty in espresso, it is also nice in a glass over ice, added to milkshakes, or made into the popular mudslide cocktail.
Do you’ll want to refrigerate Irish Cream?
It is unusual to suppose {that a} drink with dairy in it may be stored within the cabinet, however most Irish Cream Liqueur makers—together with Baileys—say their product is shelf secure, opened or not, for as much as two years, so long as it is stored out of the daylight. It is because the alcohol acts as a preservative, retaining the cream from going unhealthy! We have by no means been in a position to take a look at this declare, nonetheless, as an opened bottle of Irish Cream has by no means lasted anyplace shut to 2 years.
