ok here’s my first attempt at a drink inspired by @misbehavingmaiar’s melkor (the challenge being that it also come out as something i actually want to drink,,,i could make a lot of melkor-inspired drinks that i’d never want to imbibe thanks). obviously a proper melkor drink needs to be set on fire and then served over ice, but i didn’t feel like fiddling with that tonight, wanted sthg simple.
this drink contains: – Bulleit Bourbon (orange-amber in colour its important ok) – Medfored New England Rum (a very sweet & butterscotchy (also very Quality) dark rum, gold in colour) – lapsang tea leaves, infused into the spirits (for smoke) – honey – ~¼ tsp of kahlua (kahlua is such a melkor liquor in my mind; it’s coffee and alcohol and bitter and sweet and just AWFUL CHEAP DEATH SYRUP but also amazing in the right contexts, idk)
i did this shaken and over ice. so…i guess the honey made it frothy when i shook it? anyway the result is…pretty on-point i think? it’s intense (like man it hits you hard) both in terms of flavour and in alcohol concentration; aspects of it are almost cloyingly sweet (i guess the honey combined with the rum), but it’s counterbalanced by the bitterness and the smoke and funny buzzy zingy kind of thing its got going on. i only wish i’d been able to preserve the colour of the spirits—the kahlua must have been enough to myddy it. i mean, canonical enough, but want to see if i can replicate what the kahlua does with something that lets me keep it more in the gold range that i so love. the froth is nice though.
also side note MAN i hardly put any kahlua in at all but i’m like vibrating tipsy right now?: like jittery&hyped bordering on uncomfortable but also that slow loose floaty feeling that the ethanol always do. idk wats up with that but it’s kinda fun.
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