You've Had Eggnog With Bourbon, But Have You Tried it With Beer?

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[nickcarraway]

If there is one thing that eggnog lovers and eggnog haters have in common, it’s this: you HAVE to try it homemade. It’s an entirely new culinary creation once that yellow carton is removed. Once a nog-hater myself, I was hooked after one swig of the homemade version. This stuff is delicious.

When you make this from scratch, you get the true impact: this is a glass of drinkable boozed-up ice cream. With a ingredient list like “cream, milk, eggs, sugar, booze,” there really isn’t anything not to fall in love with. As long as take the ten minutes and make it from scratch, really, it’s very simple.

Although I may seem like a bit of a cocktail rogue by throwing beer into my nog, there is some evidence that adding beer may have been a rather common practice back in the early days of eggnog. After all, in the 17th century, “nog” was the word used to describe a strong beer. Although rum took the lead as the booze of choice for this holiday drink, and that quickly turned to the bourbon we usually see today, you really are free to booze as you choose when it comes to this yuletide cocktail.

If you decide that beer is your booze of choice (good call) look for a strong beer with lots of malt (malt equals sweet) and low hops. I used a barley wine, which despite its name isn’t a wine at all but a high-alcohol beer (usually 8-12% ABV). Specifically, I chose Backburner by Souther Tier. With a 10% ABV, plus beautiful notes of caramel, vanilla, brown sugar, and raisins, it was the perfect choice. And don’t worry, with only 5 ounces going into the nog, you’ll have plenty left over for that pint gla

[a fool in paradise]

I respect my beer too much.

[military cop]

Egg nog and Kalhua.

Trust me.

Richer than three feet up a bull’s......well.....

...you know.

RLTW

[donmeaker]

I guess you can drink your eggnog until you can’t taste it at all!

[donmeaker]

I guess you can drink your eggnog until you can’t taste it at all!

[ChildOfThe60s]

Actually, I mean that literally. In the morning when the weather is right, the air smells like bourbon mash. Which is strangely similar to the smell of someone far away cooking bacon.

The trail features six distilleries nestled among the most beautiful scenery the Bluegrass state has to offer. One such distillery is Jim Beam in Clermont. There you can visit the historic T. Jeremiah Beam home where three generation of Beam distillers lived, the authentic 1800’s copper still (believed to be one of the oldest in America), and their oldest rack house where you’ll be surrounded by bourbon aging in 20,000 oak barrels. Another distillery with some history is the Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort. Buffalo Trace was one of four distilleries in the country that operated throughout prohibition because they were licensed to produce “medicinal” whiskey, and, as it turned out, Prohibition coincided with an epidemic of afflictions that reportedly required a bourbon cure (uh ah! Yeah right!?). Can’t decide on what distillery to check out, once a year they all get together at the Kentucky Bourbon Festival in Bardstown so check out the festival for all kinds of activities to learn more about bourbon.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

“Maybe one ice cube in my Single Barrel Select.”

Whatever your favorite sippin’ stuff, keep it in the freezer and enjoy it neat. Smoothe! You will never use a cube again...

[PGR88]

Half beer - half tomato juice. A great summer drink

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

You Guy’s are a lot more refined than I was when I still drank. I would drink anything from aftershave lotion on up.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Years ago, a small dairy in Des Moines, Anderson-Ericson, produced the best egg nog and very best cottage cheese ever made.
The nog was golden, thick and sweet, a perfect set up for dark rum.

The cottage cheese was “hand packed,” and had a back of the throat flavor no other product could claim.

A-E changed many of their recipes back in the 80s...

[entropy12]

I use peach brandy, which is not expensive, and a great mixer with eggnog, OJ and I also sprinkle it on my Victoria pudding...an English concoction of diced mango, banana, and custard. On a hot day on the golf course, nothing tastes better than OJ & peach brandy on ice.

[AppyPappy]

” On a hot day on the golf course, nothing tastes better than OJ & peach brandy on ice.”

Except for everything else

[S.O.S121.500]

booze as you choose

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I like that word smiting....

[OwenKellogg]

Thanks for that info. I spent some time in and around Louisville and Southern Indiana, but never heard the term.

Definitely great scenery in that area.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Occasionally I have run into folks following the whole trail, staying in Bed & Breakfast(s) and such along the way. Somewhere there is a planned course to follow from one end to the other.