When was baileys created

My main initial job was to build and drive Baileys Irish Cream which, at that stage, was showing promise but very much in its infancy. He was a maverick, innovative thinker and creative genius with wonderful vision but not at all a hard nosed businessman. We never had a single argument and I was privileged to work with Tom, the man who deserves the real credit for Baileys. Shortly before he died I asked him to set out the truth about Baileys and what follows in inverted commas is exactly what he wrote.

However, he recognised that I had some good qualities; I was clever. And Jasper felt guilty for having hired me away from a perfectly good job in advertising. This was revolutionary talk in those days. We had plenty of lab facilities in our totally new installations at Harlow.

Now all we needed was ideas. For a while we faffed about with fizzy sweet drinks and various liqueurs, but we were only retracing well-beaten paths. Stimulus arrived from our finance director, Robin Gold. The brief was simple; we had a tiny drinks wholesale business in Dublin, which lost a little money each year. This was The Irish government, in a successful rush for growth, offered a fifteen-year tax holiday to anyone exporting a new product or service, freely remittable.

We were to produce something that could profitably be exported. The parameters were these. We owned the name and stocks of a small brand of Irish whiskey. That was it, apart from the fact that Gluckman had worked on the creation of a brand of butter, Kerrygold.

There is some discussion about what happened next. Certainly, we did no research at all. We spent a lot of time in country hotels and various bars and restaurants beating our brains out. We rejected a green liqueur made from carageenan, a form of Irish seaweed. I seem to remember that, during an exploration of New York bars, we fell upon a cocktail known as a Brandy Alexander, which gave us a steer in the right direction. We used the original whiskey bottle. David had the vision of blending cream and whisky together with the ambition of creating a drink that was both suitable for the export market and one which would reflect the heritage and agricultural traditions of Ireland.

The first experiments to make Baileys were done in a Kenwood mixer — just like one you would use in a kitchen at home. A father and son duo have been at the centre of the Baileys success story. Steve Wilson led the first team that invented Baileys Original 40 years ago. Nearly 40 years later, his son, Anthony Wilson then went on to be the principal scientist that invented Baileys Chocolat Luxe which launched in There are 40, Cows on farms dedicated to producing cream for Baileys.

Cream arrives at factory 36 hours after leaving farm for optimum freshness. When it first launched in , it only lasted a few weeks.

This might make the mixture undesirable. However, some cocktails encourage curdling. Baileys Irish Cream Dear customer, kindly note: door to door delivery is only available in Lagos and Abuja also payment on delivery is NOT available. Thank you. Close Drinks Menu Back. Menu Search Account Cart 0. Products search.

My Account Cart Checkout Wishlist. Recently added item s. Home Blog. Posted in Drinks History and Facts. How Baileys Irish Cream Liqueur is made Baileys is made from the very best of premium quality dairy cream, triple-distilled whiskey and fine spirits.