It's been chilly up here at the cabin in the Northwoods of Wisconsin, Mrs Willie & I enjoyed a Rusty Nail or two in the evening this past week,
We prefer a 2 parts blended scotch with 1 part Drambuie mix
Originally Posted by
work2fly
I made an old fashioned this evening, the first I've ever had so nothing to compare it to.
2 oz blended 12 year scotch
2 dashes orange bitters
Fat teasooon of 3:1 honey syrup
No orange peel
Not bad and a nice warming drink for the fall season.
Old Fashioneds are THE predominant cocktail in Wisconsin, usually made with Brandy (Wisconsinites drink a staggering % of the brandy compared to the rest of the US). Elsewhere most Old Fashioneds are made with bourbon (we prefer rye if going the bourbon route).
I don't think I've ever seen/heard scotch used in an Old Fashioned.
Originally Posted by
gfunkdave
I found a bottle at a liquor store in the west loop, Chicago, a couple weeks ago. It was $120...grr.
I was lucky when the shortage started and found bottles of green and yellow Chartruese at smaller independent liquor stores, the type of shops that mostly rely on beer and cheap booze sales to survive. They weren't aware of what they had and didn't mark up the price. I wasn't the only one, when I went back to stores that had numerous bottles of both sitting on their shelves, all of the stock had been purchased.
A favorite cocktail of ours with green Charturuese is the Last Word.
For yellow Chartruese we really enjoy Naked & Famous:
https://www.diffordsguide.com/cockta...ked-and-famous