welcome friends welcome back to cocktails after dark where I am
exploring cocktail recipes and how you can change the flavor just by using
different based spirits all in an effort to find out what I like so today we're
gonna do something called the little Club number one from Ted sasuke's 1951
cocktail guide and it just consists of two ingredients Drambuie and blended
scotch and I know that there are already people tippity typing telling me that
that is called a rusty nail and it would be correct today it's called a rusty
nail this drink first appeared in 1937 and it was called the BI F pretty
British industries fair and that name never really stuck and so in the
intervening years it's been called a whole bunch of things and then around
1963 the rusty nail stuck today I'm going to make this two ways and I've got
three blended scotches here that I could possibly use I don't have too much left
of the Dewar's 25 so I'm gonna leave that one aside and I'm going to make
this with the Shiva and the the Dewar's 15 and we're gonna compare how the
flavours how the flavors work out so that was three quarters of an ounce of
Drambuie in each one and now we're gonna do an ounce and a half of the whiskey
each glass gets some ice and stir and I don't particularly like stirring in
these glasses they've got little indentations that you're supposed to
hold your with your fingers to make it easier to hang on to but it makes it
really difficult to stir it in the glass even with the round end it's almost
impossible okay let's give them a go first the Dewar's 15 definitely
definitely getting you know scotch on the nose and I'm not sure what the
Drambuie is bringing to the nose of this drink
well very nice very nice so he chases the Drambuie on its own a little bit
later because I'm not terribly familiar with it as I look here but I have a
feeling what it's bringing to this is kind of that syrupy mouthfeel because it
it probably has a lot of sugar in it we'll get to that in a moment now let's
try the the Shiva s' still getting the scotch whisky on the nose not getting
much from the Drambuie although the Drambuie is mostly scotch so I'm not
surprised by that getting a different sort of scotch profile though than I got
with the Dewar's because they are very different tasting scotch whiskies okay
okay the Shiva is sweeter definitely sweeter
a less complex drink something that would be very easy to sit down at the
bar and plow through a couple of those very pleasant to drink in the Ennis and
the sweetness and the flavor profile the Dewar's is much more challenging the
Dewar's is something that still I would love to drink but you would sit down and
I think I would sip this a little more slowly and the way that the flavor
develops over time and the way that as the ice cube sort of melts and dilutes
it it will change over time as well but right off the bat it is a much more
complex cocktail yeah less sweet more complex and the large clear ice cubes
that I'm using here will melt fairly slowly relatively slowly so you won't
get a whole lot of dilution over the course of drinking this cocktail now
let's just try the Drambuie on its own let's see what this is all about just on
its own and see what it's bringing to the party I'm not gonna have too much
just just a taste that's wild that is wild aged Scotch whisky spices
Heather and honey so that's the sweetness the Heather I don't know about
that
I gotta tell you I haven't eaten a lot of Heather in my lifetime I don't think
I have any way that would be very nice on its own just on the rocks I'm sure so
there is no right or wrong here no matter what you call this the little
Club number one the knuckle head the mig-21 the rusty nail the bi F this is a
great cocktail and simply by switching out the whiskey that you use you can
completely sort of change the flavor profile and give you something that is
either really easy to drink or sort of a little bit more challenging and
thoughtful so let me know in the comments down below
whether you like a rescue nail what you call it where you live and what blended
Scotch whisky you use in it thanks for stopping by see you again soon
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