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Liqueur
A liqueur is an alcoholic beverage that has been flavored with fruit, herbs, nuts, spices, flowers, or cream and bottled with added sugar. Liqueurs are typically quite sweet; they are usually not aged for long but may have resting periods during their production to allow flavors to marry.The...
first introduced in 1994. It is produced in Dublin by Tomas Sheridan & Sons
Tomas Sheridan & Sons
Thomas Sheridan & Sons is the distillery, owned by the Gilbey's Group, which produces Baileys Irish Cream and Sheridan's Cream Liqueur . Their address is located at T...
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It is uniquely bottle
Bottle
A bottle is a rigid container with a neck that is narrower than the body and a "mouth". By contrast, a jar has a relatively large mouth or opening. Bottles are often made of glass, clay, plastic, aluminum or other impervious materials, and typically used to store liquids such as water, milk, soft...
d, consisting of two separate sections, separated by glass
Glass
Glass is an amorphous solid material. Glasses are typically brittle and optically transparent.The most familiar type of glass, used for centuries in windows and drinking vessels, is soda-lime glass, composed of about 75% silica plus Na2O, CaO, and several minor additives...
, but fused together. One section is filled with a black liqueur, consisting of coffee
Coffee
Coffee is a brewed beverage with a dark,init brooo acidic flavor prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant, colloquially called coffee beans. The beans are found in coffee cherries, which grow on trees cultivated in over 70 countries, primarily in equatorial Latin America, Southeast Asia,...
and whiskey flavors, the other is filled with a white liqueur of milk white chocolate
Chocolate
Chocolate is a raw or processed food produced from the seed of the tropical Theobroma cacao tree. Cacao has been cultivated for at least three millennia in Mexico, Central and South America. Its earliest documented use is around 1100 BC...
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When pouring into a lowball glass, the white liqueur should be gently floated on top of the black liqueur.
, Sheridan's is not available in the United States
United States
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, though it can be purchased on cruise ship
Cruise ship
A cruise ship or cruise liner is a passenger ship used for pleasure voyages, where the voyage itself and the ship's amenities are part of the experience, as well as the different destinations along the way...
s in the duty free shops. It is also available at several duty free shops along the Canadian border.