Drink · 2 min · Amounts not specified
Rusty Nail
Scotch and Drambuie. Start at four to one and adjust — Drambuie is honeyed and it takes over quickly.
The sheet · 1 rocks glass · 2 min
easyWhy tonight. Scotch and Drambuie. Start at four to one and adjust — Drambuie is honeyed and it takes over quickly.
What it needs
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- scotch
- drambuie
Method
- 2 oz Scotch, ½ oz Drambuie, stirred over ice and served on a big cube.
- Drambuie is Scotch with honey and herbs already in it, so this is one spirit lightly sweetened by a version of itself.
- Start at 4:1 and adjust. Most published recipes are far too sweet and are the reason this drink acquired its reputation.
- Lemon peel expressed over the top cuts the honey more than an orange one does.
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Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- scotch
- Malt, smoke or both depending on the bottle, and it does not sit quietly under other ingredients.
- drambuie
- Scotch sweetened with honey and herbs, so it is both the spirit and the sugar in whatever it lands in.
Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.
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