

Whatever the outcome of the suit is, however, you may well have a better sense of what you’re buying the next time you’re craving spicy booze. Her attorney, Spencer Sheehan, has made a name for himself by targeting food and beverage companies for flavor claims on packaging. If the label says “Fireball Cinnamon Whisky,” it’s whiskey if it says “Fireball Cinnamon,” you’re looking at malt liquor.Īs for the lawsuit, an Illinois resident named Anna Marquez brought it against Sazerac, arguing that the label of the malt liquor version is misleading.
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It turns out that if you’re buying a bottle of Fireball at your local liquor store, you are indeed purchasing whiskey, but if you see it elsewhere - like, say, your local grocery store - the bottle instead contains “a malt beverage flavored to taste like whiskey.”īesides the location, there’s another way to tell which version you’re looking at. Atomic Fireball - Extra Large Size Jaw Breakers (7 Pound) by RiverFinn 7 Pound (Pack of 1) 174 3726 (0.33/Ounce) FREE delivery Wed, Feb 15 Esschert Design FF1012 Wildlife Fire Sphere, Rust Metal Finish - X Large 61 1,13894 1,199.00 FREE delivery Feb 15 - 24 More Buying Choices 1,064. Via Yahoo, The Washington Post has a solution for this whiskey-adjacent mystery. The price varies depending on the suppliers, country, and whether you buy it online, including shipment. It turns out there’s a very good reason why those bottles are there - because apparently, they aren’t whiskey at all. A 1.75 L bottle of Fireball is somewhere around 24. However, it isn’t only bottles that Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey comes in. And yet there they are, travel size bottles of whiskey, there for purchase. There are 750 mL.375mL., 1.75.L., 100 ml.


This is baffling because New York has not, as far as I know, legalized the sale of spirits in grocery stores. Near the end of one of the aisle, beside things you might expect to see in a grocery store in New York - seltzer and hummus and spices - there’s also a trove of tiny bottles of Fireball, the ubiquitous cinnamon-flavored whiskey. Dr McGillicuddys Fireball starts with the unmistakable taste of cinnamon and ends with a fiesty kick of whisky. For the last year or so, a sight at my local grocery store has regularly baffled me. Comment: Incredibly cinnamon, this has no resemblance to flavours associated with Canadian whisky.
