Rusty Nail Cocktail
- Deadly
A seriously strong cocktail, stirred until cold, served in a rocks glass.
Serve in: rocks glass
Ingredients
- 1.5 ozscotch
- 0.5 ozDrambuie
- iceoptional
How to Make a Rusty Nail
Instructions
- Pour both ingredients over crushed ice in a rocks glass.
- Stir gently.
- It should be drunk quickly before the ice dilutes the drink.
Garnish
No garnish is necessary, but you can use a lemon zest twist.
Tips & substitutions
- No scotch? Try whisky or bourbon.
The glass
Serve this one in a rocks glass. Basically an Old Fashioned glass, but stronger with thicker glass and rim, made from toughened glass to suit drinks that require muddling.
Did you know
According to cocktail historian David Wondrich, the Rusty Nail took a while to find its proper place in the world. The combination of Drambuie—the world's most distinguished Scotch-based liqueur — and the whisky it is made from first appears in 1937 in the form of the B.I.F., credited to one F. Benniman and ostensibly named after the British Industries Fair. The cocktail's name was finally cemented in 1963, when Gina MacKinnon, the chairwoman of the Drambuie Liqueur Company, gave the Rusty Nail her endorsement in The New York Time
