Out of date Baileys

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Just found a bottle of Baileys best before October 2024 - is it safe to drink?!

It’s booze, it will be perfectly fine. I used to make my own version with fresh cream and eggs although it didn’t last long in the fridge as it got drunk rather quickly. 🥳😂

It's barely out of date. I'll likely be fine, there will be huge margins on the dates.

I've just checked my unopened bottle and the date is June 2024. Now thinking I should probably open it and drink it....

So glad I saw this post I've just got 3 bottles out of the garage, 2 are best before Nov 2024 so was unsure if to use or order more.

I have drank Baileys which was 5 years out of date. It was fine. It helps from Baileys being in a dark bottle and in a cupboard.

It's best before not use by. It will be fine.

I've got a bottle BBE October 2024 too. It's unopened and I'm saving it for Christmas Day. Need plenty of ice in the freezer

It lasts two years once opened apparently so I'm sure it will be fine. Would last me a weekend to be honest. Don't buy it anymore it's too moreish

I’ve got a bottle in the fridge which I probably opened last Christmas. Had some Friday night, tasted fine and I’m still here.

That much sugar & alcohol is a preservative. It'll be fine.

It'll be fine. As PP have said it's best before and only a few months out of date.

I've said this before on here but I used to work in a massive supermarket manufacturing and distribution centre in the Netherlands, and for things like cans, tins, sealed bottles and jars etc the BB date was basically arbitrary. We'd usually add it as two years from that day's date regardless of the product (with some exceptions) - so it was essentially meaningless. It was only added because it was needed legally and could just as easily have been for 5/10/however many years' time.

Why wouldn't you just taste it?

Hoping to save it for Christmas Eve/day so I didn’t want to open it yet.

Last year my mum poured me a Baileys. Thought it tasted a little.... odd.
Checked the bottle - 2019

In that case I'd probably get another bottle just in-case. Imagine how disappointed you'd be if you open it on Christmas day and it has gone bad!!

They're on special in one of the supermarkets I'm sure? And get one well dated so if the bottle you already have is okay, you can keep the other bottle for next Christmas 😊

Oh no! 🤢

Both!

OP if it's been stored somewhere relatively cool it will be absolutely fine. Even if it hasn't, it will probably still be fine because it's unopened. Just don't keep it another year once you've opened it.

I just finished last Christmas's bottle on Friday night. Never occurred to me to look at a BB date! I'm still alive.

Give it the sniff test. If it smells ok, it will be ok. If it smells off, it isn't.

I remember a few years ago we had Baileys at my dad's house that was very old, at least 5 years but probably more. It was fine.

I've been drinking the one we opened last year, had a BBE date of October 23. It's going down fine.

I wouldn’t risk it you might get chlamydia

I've Bailey's in the fridge from last year and it's grand!

Urgh I was served an out of date Baileys in a posh pub once - it was curdled and thick and tasted revolting 🤢