Shackleton's buried treasure

The roulette gawds were good to me, and gave me a drink on this have to work on my day off Monday.

Introducing the Scotch Explorer


Other than maybe gin, I hate shopping for scotch the most.  There is too much variation in flavor, a nd I do not have the desire or money to try them all.  Definitely do not have the money to just buy the  good stuff for a random mixed drink.  No way am I blowing $15 a shot on a $400 bottle of scotch for a random drink from McDuff knows where.  Everything else is a crap shoot on whether you get more flavor from the moor peat or the reindeer poop.  And forget bottom shelf, 1800 wood lacquer has got to taste better.

This recipe is easy though.  Doing research on this drink, I was introduced to Sir Ernst Shackleton.  An antarctic explorer who is apparently more famous for 3 cases of  Mackinlay's scotch left behind on the Antarctic subcontinent, than actually successful missions.  I understand, who would not want 18 bottles of 100 year old hooch kept under the floor boards in an antarctic shanty.

Since I was out of mixing scotch.  Still not brave enough to break into my $45 a shot bottle, and low and behold Shackleton's was on sale for under $40.  Supposed to be the closest thing to 1900 Mackinlay's. The stars were aligned to toast this 1917 sailor.

Verdict:  As a scotch, more peat than smoke. Not blended to obscurity.  Typical to good cheap scotch.  OK for blending. 

As a drink - not sure the sherry and amaretto added much, but did tame it down so I wasn't quite grazing the moors.

As a THEME SONG for 9/23/19

who knew I would be adding GWAR to the play list this soon


Antarctican Drinking Song (5th time is a charm)


https://youtu.be/YPRe3TTp1V4










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