Brady's Irish Cream

Brady's has a somewhat yellow-cream appearance, but it is generally similar to other Irish cream liqueurs, meaning it looks similar to chocolate milk. The alcohol legs are widely and evenly spaced. The aroma is of strong dairy cream, with background chocolate. The flavor is cream forward, with liqueur, cocoa, vanilla, and sweetness, in the background. Brady's has a medium body, with a velvety mouthfeel and finishes midway dry to sweet. RJT

Rating: 9/23 This is another one of those Bailey's knock-offs. There's nothing magnificent about Bailey's though, so I'm somewhat optimistic. Color-wise, this is pretty much identical to Bailey's. N: Whereas Bailey's has this milky, grassy scent, this smells creamy, with Werther's Originals butterscotch mixed with a dash of banana. There's a vodka scent coming through here, or perhaps some really cheap scotch that is mostly just oily like Glen Logie. P: The palate is fairly rich but it's overly sweet and pretty our of whack. The oily vodka (Glen Logie) flavor brings out more banana from the Werther's Originals. The Werther's flavor (sans banana) is OK, but the only clearly good flavor is the cream. The alcohol has a graininess that brings in a tiny bit of spice. It's kind of interesting, but it isn't very good. F: There's something weirdly musty on the finish. There's more to it than that. I guess it's a bit like dried grass too. Maybe the grain from the alcohol is finally blending in with the other flavors OK and the alcohol bite is gone. It reminds me a bit of oxidized dry milk powder, perhaps. Like the palate, it's kind of interesting, but it isn't good. In this case, the knock-off is far from the quality of the original, unfortunately. Looking more closely, I see that this is made from Irish Whiskey AND other spirits. So, I think I was correct in identifying the vodka flavor to begin with. I was considering the 7 to 10 range for this, but was leaning more toward a 9 or 10. It's tough to judge something like this since I don't have much that is like it sitting around to use for a comparison. I think I'm going to go with a 9. At $9 per bottle, I guess you could do worse.