Warm Alcoholic Beverages?

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When the air turns cold, and I don't see the sun for three days straight, I begin to crave a drink that will warm my heart and erase my troubles -- or at least my short term memory.

The only ones I can think of are warm apple cider with rum (which is great) and coffee with whiskey (which tastes like paint thinner). Any suggestions?

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 1 October 2004 03:28 (twenty years ago)

mulled wine? i don't like it myself but others do when it is cold!

― gem (trisk), Friday, 1 October 2004 03:30 (twenty years ago)

Well, I'll try it.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 1 October 2004 03:31 (twenty years ago)

mulled wine rocks, i had it for the first time last weekend. the temptation to drink it too fast is its only downside.

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Friday, 1 October 2004 03:32 (twenty years ago)

i don't mind it as long as it is a more spicy/cinnamony than sweet brew. but usually it is kinda sweet so no good for me. it definitely is very effective at warming you up on a cold day though hurting!

― gem (trisk), Friday, 1 October 2004 03:34 (twenty years ago)

Ah, the beautiful sadness of autumn. Perhaps I shall take a drive through New England to see the foliage.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 1 October 2004 03:39 (twenty years ago)

SAKE

― TOMBOT, Friday, 1 October 2004 03:42 (twenty years ago)

SAKE SAKE SAKE SAKE SAKE SAKE SAKE

― TOMBOT, Friday, 1 October 2004 03:42 (twenty years ago)

i wonder if jagermeister would taste good warm

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Friday, 1 October 2004 03:43 (twenty years ago)

Not a big sake fan.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 1 October 2004 03:45 (twenty years ago)

hot sake is gross.

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 1 October 2004 04:17 (twenty years ago)

autumn drinks.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 1 October 2004 07:49 (twenty years ago)

Hott toddy. Mmmm warm whisky, honey and lemon.

xpost, which is mentioned on that there thread. Hurrah.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 1 October 2004 07:50 (twenty years ago)

What's that thing where you cook sugar and orange peels with rum?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 1 October 2004 12:47 (twenty years ago)

coffee and liquor and chocolate

― kephm (kephm), Friday, 1 October 2004 13:04 (twenty years ago)

HOTT SAKE IS LUSH!! Tom OTM as he always is, the big dreamboat.

Also mulled wine - ignore the snobs and buy the packet stuff, a box of cheap Chilean, and snooze the winter away in a warm boozy fug.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 1 October 2004 14:23 (twenty years ago)

Glogg is very popular in Andersonville. It's a Swedish thing. I've never had it with the almonds in it, but it sounds nummy.

― Gold Teeth II (kenan), Friday, 1 October 2004 14:37 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

hot toddies are good, what else you got??

― gershy, Thursday, 27 December 2007 07:43 (seventeen years ago)

Cointreau, neat in a snifter.

― gr8080, Thursday, 27 December 2007 08:50 (seventeen years ago)

hot buttered rum?

― jergïns, Thursday, 27 December 2007 09:27 (seventeen years ago)

i heard there's a good recipe but i haven't tried it

― jergïns, Thursday, 27 December 2007 09:27 (seventeen years ago)

winter pimms

― ken c, Thursday, 27 December 2007 12:10 (seventeen years ago)

(add apple juice obv)

― ken c, Thursday, 27 December 2007 12:13 (seventeen years ago)

posted this on the autumn drinks thread last month, still awesome:

Hot Buttered Rum:
1 ½ oz. Cruzan Single Barrel Rum
2 heaping teaspoons hot buttered rum mix***
Mix ingredients with small amount of hot water in heated coffee mug and stir well with a spoon. Once mixed thoroughly, top off mug with hot water.
Serve with a swizzle stick.

***Hot Buttered Rum Mix***
1 lb. light brown sugar
1/2 lb. salted butter
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
2 teaspoons ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
1 teaspoon high-quality vanilla extract
Yields approx. 1 1/2 lbs

(I found this recipe through a search, the one I actually used was similar but called for Mount Gay Eclipse rum. Anything in that range should work.)

― I DIED, Thursday, 27 December 2007 14:15 (seventeen years ago)

Hot Chocolate goes well with whatever liquor you want.
Use Droste cocoa and follow the directions on the back of the box, which basically say: "warm up some milk, in a separate bowl mix together cocoa powder, sugar and milk into a paste that is as sweet as you want, whisk this mixture into the warm milk until incorporated, serve in mugs with marshmallows or whipped cream."
I just make a cocoa/sugar mixture with liquor such as amaretto, Luxardo, baileys, creme de menthe or chambord and then add it to the warm milk. If I make the mint one I put a candy cane as the stirrer.

― saudade, Thursday, 27 December 2007 15:07 (seventeen years ago)

i still have not tried hot buttered rumz yet. i really want some though.

― carne asada, Thursday, 27 December 2007 15:21 (seventeen years ago)

I had hot buttered rum for the 1st time on Christmas but it seemed like it had heavy cream in it too. Nearly as filling as eggnog and sneakily potent.

Winter Pimms?

― the higgs, Thursday, 27 December 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago)

winter pimms aka pimms no 3, based on brandy and good for serving hot (with apple juice)

― ken c, Thursday, 27 December 2007 17:20 (seventeen years ago)

stone fence: mulled cider + whisky or brandy

― elmo argonaut, Thursday, 27 December 2007 17:29 (seventeen years ago)

hot buttered rum is great. there was a recipe in NYT recently, and we've been using that, and keeping a jar of the batter in the fridge.

― colette, Thursday, 27 December 2007 17:40 (seventeen years ago)

elmo: hard cider or soft?

― ian, Thursday, 27 December 2007 17:58 (seventeen years ago)

traditionally hard

― remy bean, Thursday, 27 December 2007 18:02 (seventeen years ago)

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