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The company was founded in 1869 after the purchase by Thomas H. Handy of the Sazerac Coffee House, a bar and importer of a brand of cognac named Sazerac de Forge. [3] The coffee house itself had been established in 1850. [5] After its purchase, Handy's company began to acquire and market more brands of liquor.
Barton Brands, Ltd. was a company that produced a variety of distilled beverages and liqueurs and is now part of the Sazerac Company, which is headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, and has its principal offices in Louisville, Kentucky.
Around 1850, Sewell T. Taylor sold his New Orleans bar, the Merchants Exchange Coffee House, to become an importer of spirits, and he began to import a brand of cognac named Sazerac-de-Forge et Fils. Meanwhile, Aaron Bird assumed proprietorship of the Merchants Exchange and changed its name to Sazerac Coffee House. [8] [9]
The Sazerac Company purchased the brand rights and formula from Seagram in 1989. [1] [4] It was marketed as "Dr. McGillicuddy's Firewater Whisky". [1] Later, in 2007, the product was rebranded as "Fireball Cinnamon Whisky". [5] [4] An April 2014 article in Bloomberg Business Week said "It's also one of the most successful liquor brands in ...
The 50ml bottles of Fireball Cinnamon are sometimes sold for 99 cents in big bins as drink shots usually in places where hard liquor sales are not permitted such as grocery stores and gas stations.
Dr. McGillicuddy's liqueurs are between 30 and 60 U.S. proof (15–30% alcohol by volume), depending on the flavor. The liqueurs are available in a range of bottle sizes 50 mL, 100 mL, 200 mL, 375 mL, 750 mL, 1 L and 1.75 L. [6] According to the brand website, a character named Dr. Aloysius Percival McGillicuddy created the liqueur.