Most notably the flip, made with ale, rum, sugar and eggs, then boiled to a froth using a loggerhead. Egg drinks date back to the earliest days of colonial tippling. Noggin’ it up hasn’t always been associated with Christmas, though.
Eggnog should be homemade, with real eggs, and good spirits. Like those shots of Jose Cuervo in college that still keeps you from enjoying a fine anejo.Īs with most of the unfortunate drinks that’ve garnered a bad reputation via poor quality when eggnog is done correctly it can be a wonderfully complex and versatile concoction. Furthermore, the nog has also suffered from the reputation of poor quality.
The nog of the egg has fully fallen to the depths of the capitalized cocktails akin to abominations that are neon appletinis and vodka red bulls. In my defense, I was a young man naive in the ways of bibulity. Of course, it would be some time before I added rum to mine and then, well, it really was magical. I would watch mom add rum and sprinkle nutmeg on top and I thought it was magical. Growing up in the 80’s my parents always had a carton of pasteurized egg nog at Christmastime. Classically one of the most divisive holiday staples eggnog has finally returned to its rightful place at the forefront of holiday tippling.
