![]() ![]() I prefer a half-pint glass tankard (a simple cylinder with a handle) for the simple reason that I’ve had too many thin glasses shatter after adding the boiling water. This is the standard glass in Irish pubs. You can use a svelte, small pub glass if you don’t want more than a single measure. ![]() When in Ireland I use Powers or Paddy, and save the Jameson for drinking over ice. The smoothness of aged Scotch or Bushmills is intended for a neat nip or a pair of ice cubes, and needs nothing more. If you make a hot whiskey with expensive, smooth sipping whiskey, not only are you wasting your money, but the resulting drink usually has much less of a whiskey taste. ![]() Living in the US, I usually use cheap Canadian rubbish that I’d never drink neat. Generally, use the cheapest whiskey you can find. The drink, however, never really went away.įirst ingredient, and possibly the least important, is the whiskey (never whisky - don’t waste good Scotch by watering it down. The early temperance movements vilified it (hence the phrase “punch drunk”) and the name fell out of use. A hot whiskey used to be known as whiskey punch. So I call just call this a hot whiskey to prevent confusion. (A few other countries claim to make whiskey/whisky how nice for them.) A hot toddy is also often used as a generic name for a hot alcoholic drink (thus a mulled wine or a hot apple cider are sometimes referred to as a hot toddy). In Ireland, we spell it whiskey - and if you can’t taste the difference between whiskey and whisky, you’re wasting your money. Some notes on terminology: a hot whiskey is often called a hot toddy, but the toddy is a name for the drink used mainly in Scotland, and as I understand it, is a fairly purist whisky, sugar, lemon & water concoction. However, with a little effort the hot whiskey can be a work of delicious art. Even the laziest barman throwing a spoonful of sugar into a glass with a stingy measure of whiskey, a bit of dry lemon that’s been sitting in a dish all day and some recently hot water can be assured the resulting drink will be reasonably pleasant. One of its many virtues is you have to be a fairly big eejit to mess it up. I love a good hot whiskey (and who doesn’t?). Photo by Saucy Salad on Flickr (Creative Commons License) I’d put the slice of lemon in the drink, but whatever floats your boat. ![]()
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