Southern Comfort
American, naturally fruit-flavored, whiskey liqueur with fruit and spice accents Website
Approval Rate: 67%
Reviews 28
by justinm432
Thu Aug 04 2011First lets be clear. This is not a bourbon, it is not a whiskey, it is simply what it is and that's Southern Comfort. I've always loved this over the rocks. The taste might be too sweet for some but I find it refreshing and somewhat complex. There own slogan states "Not Genuine but mine" and that is very true in my case. I'll drink this until the day I die (most likely from it too). Highly recommended for those who are getting tried of the taste of other similar drinks.
by charliekoopa
Tue Mar 02 2010They say tequila makes her clothes fall off? SOCO makes her clothes fall off! This is the ultimate liquor for a bachelor to have. It is very agreeable and unoffensive to most of the parties consuming it. It makes excellent mixers and shoots pretty well too, if it is cold. This is a good bottle to bring to a party. Most people will bash it up and down, until they come to investigate the whole group taking shots or try a famous soco hurricane (BTW it's soco, orange juice, pineapple juice, grenadine, a splash of sweet and sour and a splash of grenadine). It's one of the liquors that you can put WAY too much of it in the mixer, and people don't complain. The 100 proof is the way to go, by the way.
by mcqualude
Wed Aug 19 2009An excellent mixer, I rate it a little high because it's a good value.
by laotzu
Tue Jul 28 2009Peach flavored whiskey? Really?
by pcpeter774
Thu May 28 2009I as a bourbon lover should hate this stuff, but for some reason I don't. it could be fond memories of it when I first started drinking in the eighth grade. However my tastes have changed. It is just a tad too sweet for me, but it is smooth. The 100 proof verison is the better buy because it has more balance to it. Anyway I do shamefully drink it from time to time. So I cant fully condemn it, but I can't fully recommend it. Overall not bad , but a little too sweet. I guess it's good when you're in the mood for a whiskey cocktail and don't fell like mixing.
by vicvegas
Wed Dec 31 2008Liquer? Whisky? Just plain nasty.
by blubbadude88
Mon Apr 21 2008Southern Comfort, a cordial, is like the sweet release of warm death, a kind of gentle hell-spawn sent by Satan himself to slide down your throat and into your stomach so you wanna drink the whole bottle and you wake up without your shirt and one of your boots in a Korean massage parlor in Youngstown, Ohio. Only you're from Iowa. Good times....
by spike65
Sun Dec 16 2007Does not belong in this category. Haven't had this since about 1975. It was a pretty good liquer back in those days and was touted as a sweetened liquer made from bourbon.
by shizelley
Tue Nov 13 2007TOO SWEET!!!
by bylstnb
Wed May 30 2007It just doesn't get any better than SoCo - a SoCo on the rocks with a big slice of lime to cut the sweetness and sip away.
by rubygirl
Mon Apr 02 2007Why is this in this category? It's not a whiskey.
by whodatsaints
Sun Apr 01 2007I do not like SOCO. It bothers me because it's very sweet. But it is easy to drink straight, which is nice. It is only 70 proof which is annoying. It does taste very good in hurricanes, with coke, with lime, and actually with orange juice(? who knew). Still too sweet in my opinion.
by randyman
Wed Mar 28 2007A little sweet and syrupy but still a good drink on the rocks.
by twansalem
Tue Sep 19 2006I was mostly just going to say that it is a liqueur, not a whiskey, so it doesn't belong on this list, but since that's been said, I guess I'll just say its alright, and it has its uses.
by nuthinfancy
Mon Sep 18 2006I like it, it tastes kind of sweet, low to medium low kick going down the throat, not to bad...
by kidquick
Thu Jun 16 2005There is absolutely no point to getting anywhere near this fancy boy stuff except to scrape the innards of your liver! Basically sweetened crap.
by race_bannon
Tue Apr 19 2005By far, best consumed on the rocks. This beverage already has all the mixer you need with the peach and apricot flavoring. However, if you want to get a good warm fuzzy, you had better buy the 100 proof bottle because the 70 proof has been watered down. BTW, who the hell are these people who remove the alcohol content from liquors anyway? Must be parents of high school and college kids who hear horror stories about their kids drinking and getting in car wrecks. Put the alcohol back in Southern Comfort. Great drink but overpriced in my opinion. Especially in light of the fact that they have reduced the alcohol content.
by oldrip
Thu Feb 17 2005Bet you've always thought this was whiskey or bourbon, didn't you. Nope -- it's a grain neutral spirits liqueur flavored with apricots/peaches. Read the label -- you won't find the words whiskey or bourbon on it (except the export-only Reserve bottling), 'cause it ain't.
by wavebacker
Sun Jan 16 2005A favorite. It's sweet, yet strong, but some time ago they decided to lower the proof on it. Back in my college days this and JD were my drinks of choice. 151 Southern Comfort was a stiff drink, but I could handle it. Love the 100 proof they have now.
by anglian_r
Fri Dec 17 2004What a bunch of morons! Southern Comfort is not, and does not pretend to be, a whiskey at all! It is a liqueur! Southern Comfort is for bourbon what Drambuie is for Scotch. It is intended to be sweet,its an aperatif! FOR A LIQUEUR, it's not bad. But watch out, it's also a rotten red wine and a rotten rum and a rotten lots of other things it's not meant to be.
by djahuti
Thu Oct 21 2004Tastes just like cough syrup & gives me a headache.
by brentumsl
Sat Oct 16 2004This sucks. I usually leave better comments than this but it sucks. Take peach, sugar, and whiskey and you get this.
by patdonovan130
Tue Jun 22 2004(70 proof) Tried it one night, won't forget that one for a while. Had me praying to the porcelian god after only 6 shots (Takes me at least double that with most other stuff) Tastes like you are shooting cough syrup, best way to describe it without a long essay. Will get you messed up fast and not the good kind of messed up... Just stick to the non sugared up Bourbon...
by wiley1827
Mon Jun 14 2004Bad booze made worse with sugar. Completely explains with the South lost.
by widgeon
Mon Feb 23 2004Sudden Discomfort is more like it!
by dragon_5
Sat Jan 24 2004Vile and disgusting! Candy coated, sugar coated, colored urine! Run - don't walk - away from this stuff.
by steady_rollin
Tue Nov 11 2003great! it was janis joplin's drink of choice
by 4horseman
Tue Nov 04 2003Uggh!! A fake. A fraud. They add caramel to this so-called "whisky"... Cheap and candied.