Friend Eric in Washington state fired an email in this week and noted that we’d missed an adult beverage oriented day back in the late January – specifically Burns Night back on 25 January, named in honor of the famed Scottish poet Robert Burns.
Burns, also known as the Ploughman Poet and the Bard of Ayrshire, is widely celebrated and oft remembered as the national poet of Scotland (pretty impressive for a guy who died in 1796). The eminently gifted Burns also wrote music and collected folk songs; he composed Auld Lang Syne in fact, a ditty most of us have tried to croon during the wee hours of New Year’s Day one time or another.
We say better late then never – stir up a Bobby Burns this weekend and do a little reading (real men – and women- do read poetry occasionally); we could all stand to up our literary quotient these days.
Cheers.
1 ounce blended scotch whisky
1 ounce sweet vermouth
1/2 ounce BenedictineGarnish: Lemon peel
Pour all into a mixing glass, fill with ice, and stir well.
Strain into a cocktail glass.
Twist that lemon peel over the glass to release then oils, then drop it in.
Enjoy.
