During this holiday season, I have had the wonderful opportunity to try several different things and Crown Royal Apple is one of the more divisive liquids in the group. My dad and a few others did not like it at all. While I and some others liked it but it is easy to drink too much of this and be done with it. Now when I first drank this neat it was very nice with the apple flavor mixing well with the whiskey and when ice is added it made the drink even better. I have not mixed this with anything but I have read and heard from friends that it does mix very well and the sweetness is reduced a great deal. I do not like this as much as the Birddog Peach but this is a nice flavored whiskey and by the time I finished drinking a few drinks of this I was not enjoying the sweetness if you know someone that likes apple-flavored things they will most likely enjoy this. Enjoy.