{Hot Mulled Wine can be served in a mug or in a classy martini glass as the bartenders at Atomic Cowboy did back in 2008.}
It’s not often we wish we lived in Alaska, but right now, the 37-degree weather in Anchorage sounds downright balmy. If we’re lucky, St. Louis saw 13 degrees today. We need a mug of something warm clutched between mittened hands, preferably in front of a fire – though we’ll settle for a Netflix marathon. Here, six hot drinks to keep you warm tonight:
1. Spiced Cider: Grab a jug of grocery cider and doctor it with bourbon, vanilla, bourbon, nutmeg, allspice and bourbon. Did we mention the bourbon?
2. Hot Buttered Rum: Continuing with that boozy theme, let’s add a little rum to our butter, shall we?
3. Pumpkin Buttered Rum: Add a little pumpkin purée from that extra can you never used during the holiday.
4. Hot Mulled Wine: A little sugar and spice to a bottle of Burgundy makes everything better.
5. Bittersweet Hot Chocolate: OK, fine. Not everything has to have liquor in it. Whip up a batch of our favorite hot cocoa and be generous with the puffy marshmallows.
6. Spanish Hot Chocolate: Though if you do add liquor, we recommend a Spanish flair with Licor 43.
This article appears in January 2014.