Pour Little Bottle...Perhaps, We Will

You are having people over for a nice meal and want to finish it off with an after dinner drink that will leave your guests well fed and content. Most of what you have in your living room bar is old hat and run-of-the mill, we bet. Got any Sheridan?

Sheridan? What's that stuff?

Sheridan is a liqueur first introduced in 1994. It is produced in Dublin by Tomas Sheridan & Sons.

Sheridan is a two component drink where a white vanilla creme liqueur is floated on to the surface of a dark coffee-chocolate liqueur, resulting in a drink similar in appearance to an Irish coffee. With its white liqueur having a white chocolate richness, and the black of warm coffee and whiskey, the whole taste experience is rounded off by a chocolate & nutty finish. Pour it into a lowball glass and watch the cream rise to the top. Yum. It is so good.

Now that we've excited you enough about this product, here's the rub. ...Sheridan is not sold in the States. It is readily available in duty free shops around the world, but not at your neighborhood liquor store. Cruise lines also sell small and large bottle of Sheridan on board their ships. But, if you aren't planning to cruise, no dice. You'll have difficulty getting your hands on some. Bummer, huh?

Oh...you might find Sheridan online, but you'll pay top dollar for it. We think it is a bargain at any price, since it is so rare and extraodinarily good. Try Amazon.com for Sheridan. I have heard that they offer it for sale from time to time.

So, how good is this stuff, really? Is it is so good that it merits going to the ends of the earth to get some? It is very, very good and others obviously agree:

Wow! Nice! I don’t drink much, but I do like to drink on special occasions. We took a cruise to Barbadoes this past January and saw Sheridan’s at the duty free shop on board. I passed it several times thinking about buying it, but didn’t till the end of the cruise. Boy am I glad I did. They gave out samples in little small cups which I loved!

We ended up buying two. We gave one to a friend and I kept the other. I just opened up mine and did a perfect pour. Great drink!

----- Stacy DeWine 02.02.13 21:03

This is not exactly a liquor for wimps, by the way. The alcohol percentage is 18.5 combined .But the black coloured part ,coffee chocolate liqueuer has a huge 19.4% alcohol the other part, vanilla cream liqueur contains 17% alcohol. So its quite strong stuff, but on saying that you don`t realise when you`re drinking it at all, you could be drinking a Chocolate Mocha alcohol-wise and not tell the difference. Take care you don't drink enough to fall on your face. Drink it responsibly.

Sheridan stands alone very nicely, but you can create some interesting drink recipes using it. Here is a list of coffee drink ideas to borrow RECIPES.

We curently have an unopenned bottle of Sheridan in the fridge. It's been there for the past year. We fear opening it and running out of the stuff. We have no cruises or international travel booked and protecting the one bottle we have. Heck...I guess if we finish the bottle, we can bribe our son to pick us up some more as he travels the world. Cheers!