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Friday Question of the Day – Favorite Winter Drink

Irish Coffee, originally uploaded by Carlos Porto.

Back in July we had a great discussion about some of your favorite summer drinks. Given the foul weather tonight it got me thinking about what were your favorite winter drinks? Last winter, Robyn suggested a few places to get hot drinks around town. I’m curious about what are your favorites to make at home. Is there anything better than a classic Irish coffee?

Category: Friday Question of the Day

By: | 21 January 2010 9:45 PM | 34 Comments

  • Dittle

    Good Irish Coffee.

  • MK

    Hot buttered rum.

  • Martin

    Here is a good one from Poland called Krupnik:
    Takes some effort though. Vodka can be substituted with grain alcohol ;)

    1-1/2 cup honey
    2/3 cup water
    1 tsp. vanilla extract or 1 vanilla bean
    1/4 tsp. nutmeg
    8 sticks cinnamon
    2 whole cloves
    3 strips lemon peel
    1 bottle vodka
    Combine honey with the water, vanilla, spices and the lemon peel in a large saucepan. Bring to a boil cover, and simmer for about 5 min. Add vodka, remove from the heat serve hot or cold.

  • Gil

    Hands down…Mexican Hot Cocoa

  • Wammo

    My mom makes a nice one that goes well at the end of the evening on a night like this. It goes like this…

    coffee
    baileys
    wild turkey (101 proof)
    grand marnier
    poof of whipped cream
    in a snifter that has been swiped with lemon and then rimmed in sugar/cinnamon

    yummy, gonna make one now….

    Iced vodka works for me too! na zdrowie!

  • Bella

    Mexican Coffee:
    1 jigger Tia Maria
    1 jigger Myers Dark Rum
    coffee
    just a dribble of half & half

    yum.

  • MPinDC

    Hot chocolate made from real chocolate with steamed milk and a grind of fresh cinnamon.

  • fuego

    An ice cold mango mimosa in a very hot room (after warming up from the f#$% cold outside). in underwear, reading a book by the space heater.

  • Mike W.

    I am the mayor of Manhattanville as soon as fall rolls around, and until the buds start to sprout in spring.

  • The Hot Toddy is pretty awesome, but I have to go with wassail.

  • Ragged Dog

    Kahlua and Cream

  • Kyle Butler

    Good bourbon, neat.

  • Mal

    Hot apple cider and I think there’s rum in it… Red wine always warms me up as well, and a jack and diet is quite satisfactory in the winter. Especially if a lot is consumed.

  • Quetzal

    Hot apple cider with a couple of shots of calvados.

  • AA

    I love a cider with booze in it. I absolutely have to disagree on the hot buttered rum… I ordered one this weekend at Poste and it was horrific. Melted butter and hot rum, that’s it… pretty disgusting.

  • IntangibleArts

    Bowmore cask-strength, neat.
    wash, rinse, repeat.

  • Emmaleigh504

    Hot chocolate or cafe au lait. For my boozey drink I vote Manhattan.

  • Doug in DC

    Butterscotch, which is like hot buttered rum, but with scotch instead. Also, you can’t beat B&B (Benedictine & Brandy) straight up when you’ve just come in from the cold.

  • Jigger Please

    Manhattans rule in the winter. But they’re almost as awesome in the summertime.

  • homemade eggnog with actual eggs, rum, whisky, whipping cream, cinnamon, nutmeg, etc.

  • GC/DC

    Hot Toddy … they make a killer one at Tryst. Had a few last night.

  • Canelazo. Hot citrus juice (orange and lime) with brown sugar, cinammon, and cloves. Add a ton of aguarediente and you’re in business. Tastes like Christmas in South America.

  • Patrick

    I love the Nutella hot chocolate they serve at Crepes-A-Go-Go on P Street.

  • Victoria

    Best winter drink is the one I cannot remember!

    Was working in St. Moritz Switz.for winter in ’84 and a couple of the on-slope places had this amazing drink – coffee, several kinds of schnapps, lots of spices, some orange & maybe lemon slices, sugar. It was served in a unique carved wooden bowl with spouts. You would order it for 2,3 or 4 people and your bowl would have 4,6 or 8 spouts, so each person had a spout to drink out of and would put their thumbs over the other two spouts while drinking.

    Damn – googling got me nowhere with this – anybody know what it might be? I do know it was the perfect ski drink – perfect combo of caffine, alcohol and sugar. I may have skied to Austria. . .

  • laphroig, served in a glass.
    Preferably by a scantilly clad woman in her 20s who is working her way through college to be a “people doctor” (actually heard this from someone calling herself Xena) or librarian or whatever the line is.

    /sexist: I’ll go check my motives.

  • tattletale

    coffee with Bailey’s for sure.



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