[TheForge] The hard cider is good... OT:

[Paul Zinn]

After all this time of lurking on this list, reading, learning and laughing, I can't believe I finally post on this topic.

Part Drambuie and part Scotch is a lovely cocktail called a Rusty Nail. The key to it is making sure you don't mess it up by using too cheap a Scotch, but there is no point in using too good a single malt. Unless, of course, you just really want to.



On Oct 26, 2010, at 7:18 AM, Bruce Freeman <freemab222 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hmmm.  Mixing Drambuie and Scotch is traditional with some.  I knew a
> guy in So. Cal. many years ago who took that as his drink of choice.
> To be sipped.  Of course, he also took his Tahiti Ketch into the ocean
> off San Diego whenever they announced a small craft advisory, and he
> drank hot coffee to cool off.
> 
> You'd'a liked him, Andy.  Your kinda guy.  Renovated a Porsche.  One
> evening he heard noise in his driveway and went out with his pistol,
> ended up shooting out the back window and side mirror of a couple
> pilferers who were trying to steal a wheel from his car.  He didn't
> aim for the kids, but messed up their rich daddy's car pretty bad.
> They must have had some interesting explaining to do when they got
> back home to Beverly Hills, or whatever rich burb they were from.  The
> police stopped by afterwards and chided him that he really shouldn't
> shoot at thieves w/in city limits, but didn't seem too upset about the
> whole thing.
> 
> As to those wimpy enameled French AGA's -- get yourself a Vulcan
> instead!   If the 6-burner, single-oven job below isn't enough for
> you, they make a 12-burner double oven model as well.  And they make
> gas as well as electric models.
> 
> http://i00.i.aliimg.com/photo/v0/263756672/Vulcan_Electric_Range_E36L.jpg
> 
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Andrew Vida <osan at netlabs.net> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Jeff Wilson wrote:
>>> I tend to agree/disagree.  Scotch and tea is good for a cold. The tea is
>>> optional and should be taken on the side. Blacksmithing content:  I knew a
>>> fellow who carried an old square cut nail in a fancy little fitted wooden
>>> box. He used it to stir his Drambuie and scotch.
>> 
>> Drambuie is nasty in itself - I cannot begin to imagine the death serum
>> it must make when mixed with scotch.  That aside, one need not mix up
>> said serum using *good* scotch.  Some Seagrams of Lord Barry should do
>> the trick, I'd say.  Leave the 30-year MacAllan out of that.  You know
>> that stuff is going for something like $2K/bottle now?  It's like the
>> Louis.  Love the Louis.  I never got to try that 125 year Hennessy.
>> Imagine.... drinking a cognac that was casked just 20 or so years after
>> the Civil War.
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