Whiskey - It's the water of life!

[Radiator Grilled Cheese]

What is a traditional and high quality alcohol for eggnog

I like bourbon the most with eggnog. Wild Turkey 101 and Evan Williams Bottled in Bond are solid choices. You don't need Pappy Van Winkle if you're mixing it with eggnog, pretty much anything that isn't plastic bottle rotgut should work.

 

[Silver Coin Anon]

I use as neutral of a whiskey as possible and just add extra brown sugar to let that give a rum-like flavor profile. Just using a rum is too rummy and using a richer whiskey just makes it taste like whiskey to me. If you really want the flavor experience of the sugar, cream, and egg without any brown flavors you can use everclear and just white sugar.

I actually derived mine from this video's recipe.

 

[Ted's of Beverly Hills]

I use as neutral of a whiskey as possible and just add extra brown sugar to let that give a rum-like flavor profile. Just using a rum is too rummy and using a richer whiskey just makes it taste like whiskey to me. If you really want the flavor experience of the sugar, cream, and egg without any brown flavors you can use everclear and just white sugar.

I actually derived mine from this video's recipe.

Might try that one - with moonshine though, don’t care for ever clear and I do want to taste some of the corn.

 

[Troonos]

What is a traditional and high quality alcohol for eggnog

Just a dark rum, spiced if you like. Whiskey and brandy have really intense aromatics that overwhelm the eggnog.

If you don't want the dark flavors, Planteray Three Star is a really great, affordable white rum that lets the spicy creaminess show through.

 

[Alcoholism]

What is a traditional and high quality alcohol for eggnog

Jim Beam.

Has a nutty character that adds to the nog.

Don't use high quality alcohol in your mixer.

 

[AnOminous]

I like bourbon the most with eggnog. Wild Turkey 101 and Evan Williams Bottled in Bond are solid choices. You don't need Pappy Van Winkle if you're mixing it with eggnog, pretty much anything that isn't plastic bottle rotgut should work.

If I want a bourbon-forward flavor, I use something like Old Grand-Dad, but if I want it mellow, something like Bulleitt. That's actually pretty nice for people with a palate not used to the sometimes harsh flavors of bourbon. It's a trifle pricey for a mixer, though.

Even rotgut like Jack Daniels will do fine. Just don't overdo it.

 

[Halbschwanz]

Considering whiskey is very much a single glass a week thing for me at most, good ole' 100 proof Knob Creek works for me 90% of the time. Usually a few cubes of ice to cut it a bit. If I'm feeling fancy I'll throw in some bitters and a splash of grenadine or cherry syrup.

 

[Pomniman]

Saw something cheap(ish) and weird at a liquor store I don't usually go to, so I got a bottle for novelty's sake. A self-proclaimed "American Islay" from The Washington Distilling Company. 113.7 proof (so 56.85% alcohol). Supposedly an "American single malt" finished in a barrel/blended with some undisclosed Islay scotch. The results are... interesting. It does kind of taste like bourbon cut with Islay peat and has enough of a kick from the alcohol content to be worth the price of admission even if it's not quite a bourbon or an Islay scotch. They only made 240 bottles of this but it's dirt cheap for something fairly unique so I guess it's some really obscure hipster garbage that wasn't pricy enough to attract the kinds of buyers who'd typically look for these kinds of things.