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DRINK RECIPES

The Rusty Nail Experience

A trip to the dark places for your mind and your taste buds

R.L. Morgan
5 min readMay 18, 2021

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The Recipe

If you want to know more, read on. If you’re just here for a recipe, here it is. Mix away, and Cheers.

The Rusty Nail

  • 1 1/2 oz. Scotch
  • 1/2 oz. Drambuie

Stir with ice until cold and serve over big ice cubes.

The Experience

The Rusty Nail doesn’t want to be your friend. It doesn’t care if you don’t like Scotch, or if you think you’re smart enough to prefer Single Malt. And whether you and your Facebook “friends” think Scotch is cool or uncool is none of its concern.

The Rusty Nail just wants to be a drink that you’ll remember, and one that you will turn to again from time to time when you want a richer, more fulfilling experience than just shooting something clear and sour. You can turn to it when you want a drink with substance, but make sure you know what you’re getting into, or it will offend your modern sensibilities and make you cry.

When you have a Rusty Nail, you are reminded of a dark bar where the drinks show up fast and go down slow. People come here to get drunk with a quick, strong shot, or…

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R.L. Morgan
R.L. Morgan

Written by R.L. Morgan

Loves writing, loves teaching, and loves his 11-year-old daughter. All of which are potential topics of hopefully entertaining posts.

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