MULLED WINE > EGGNOG

stick your eggnog up your arse. what is that, some sort of egg/milkshake? no thanks! mulled wine is the festive drink of kings.

at the weekend i concocted the following which was described by one lucky participant as "the best mulled wine ever made". (of course they were pissed at this point, after many bottles consumed) ...

1 bottle £5 californian merlot (warm, berry and sweet, vanilla base works well for mulling)

8 shots of poire william (pear liqueur/brandy mix)

handful of cloves and 2 cinnamon sticks

1 orange sliced

4 tablespoons of sugar.

heat in a pan and drink from an earthenware goblet like a medieval ruler!

if you have recipes to share i will be highly likely to try them over the festive season.

truth! i love mulled wine and didn't know the english name for it until now.

what do you call it there?

i had some nice traditional Glühwein (glow wine? brilliant) with a shot of rum at a german christmas market last week.

we call it "boiled wine" (vin fiert), but it's exactly the same thing

  On 12/5/2011 at 5:50 PM, candlestickmaker said:

we call it "boiled wine" (vin fiert), but it's exactly the same thing

but surely you don't boil it right?

i always thought you heat just until boiling point and then serve.

Unless you want to be sober...

no, we just heat it until it's hot

So maybe it might be better if they called it "Scalded Wine" in Romania. Or at least if you boiled the wine and then spike it with a shitload of Palincă afterwards.

Port wine is about the closest we get to a traditional christmas alcoholic beverage over here; it doesn't really have the festive connotation of mulled wine or eggnog though. I've tried mulled wine a couple of times and I liked it a lot despite not really knowing what goes into it - I might try making keltoi's recipe this christmas. Eggnog is a complete mystery to me, though.

  On 12/5/2011 at 6:02 PM, candlestickmaker said:

no, we just heat it until it's hot

wiki says most other european countries enjoying mulled wine call it "hot wine" or "heated wine".

EGGNOG

  On 12/5/2011 at 6:10 PM, Fred McGriff said:

So maybe it might be better if they called it "Scalded Wine" in Romania. Or at least if you boiled the wine and then spike it with a shitload of Palincă afterwards.

that would be quite the blasphemy...

  On 12/5/2011 at 6:14 PM, kokeboka said:

Port wine is about the closest we get to a traditional christmas alcoholic beverage over here; it doesn't really have the festive connotation of mulled wine or eggnog though. I've tried mulled wine a couple of times and I liked it a lot despite not really knowing what goes into it - I might try making keltoi's recipe this christmas. Eggnog is a complete mystery to me, though.

well there's an English tradition of marinading the Christmas Stilton in Port. pretty nobody ever does that though. just having port and Stilton is pretty common.

Yes. Seen a lot of mulled cider (Aspall's) this year too.

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+1 mulled wine

fuck egg nog unless you fry it first and put it on some toast.

NOG NOGS BEST

  On 12/5/2011 at 6:14 PM, kokeboka said:

Eggnog is a complete mystery to me, though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho-6i1YBsS8&feature=related

I like mulled wine, but I gots to rocks tha nog yo.

wtf

egg nog + Appleton Estate spiced rum.

mulled wine. please. next you'll be on about the best stitch for the necks of the christmas sweaters you're sending out to the family.

  On 12/5/2011 at 9:09 PM, jefferoo said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho-6i1YBsS8&feature=related

 

 

I like mulled wine, but I gots to rocks tha nog yo.

What does it taste like?

I love yogurt, but yogurt doesn't get me drunk enough to tolerate my family at christmas.

it's like creamy thick milk with a little bit of cinnamon and a lot of booze hopefully

Mulled wine is good. My best experience was at the Christmas markets in Frankfurt and it was damn cold out. Warms the cockles well. It tastes fucking awful if it starts to cool though. As bad as weak squash.

Haven't tried this mulled cider stuff but hear it is delightful. Eggnog can fuck right off.

Port ftw too! Another festive beverage popular in the keltoi household. Me and my dad always stay at the table after xmas dinner and polish off a nice bottle while the womenfolk watch shit soaps and eat chocolates.

+ Chen are you wearing a toque?

  On 12/5/2011 at 10:41 PM, keltoi said:

Port ftw too! Another festive beverage popular in the keltoi household. Me and my dad always stay at the table after xmas dinner and polish off a nice bottle while the womenfolk watch shit soaps and eat chocolates.

 

+ Chen are you wearing a toque?

fuck no. in vancouver? it doesn't even get cold here.