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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?
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Good Irish Coffee.
Hot buttered rum.
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.
Hands down…Mexican Hot Cocoa
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!
na zdrowie! that’s polish, right? sounds very close to the russian cheers (I don’t know how to phoenetically spell that one though, I’m not fluent!)
I think it might be polish, that was my hope!
Mexican Coffee:
1 jigger Tia Maria
1 jigger Myers Dark Rum
coffee
just a dribble of half & half
yum.
Hot chocolate made from real chocolate with steamed milk and a grind of fresh cinnamon.
no booze? boooooooo
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.
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.
Kahlua and Cream
Good bourbon, neat.
Nice! My vote is a hot toddy with single malt, but nothing fancy.
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.
Hot apple cider with a couple of shots of calvados.
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.
Bowmore cask-strength, neat.
wash, rinse, repeat.
+100
win!
Hot chocolate or cafe au lait. For my boozey drink I vote Manhattan.
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.
B&B…Its Dyn-a-mite!!!
Manhattans rule in the winter. But they’re almost as awesome in the summertime.
I agree completely.
homemade eggnog with actual eggs, rum, whisky, whipping cream, cinnamon, nutmeg, etc.
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.
I love the Nutella hot chocolate they serve at Crepes-A-Go-Go on P Street.
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.
coffee with Bailey’s for sure.