drawing room

1 1/2 oz Cutty Sark Prohibition Scotch
1/2 oz Drambuie
1/2 oz Benedictine
2 dash Jerry Thomas Decanter Bitters
1 Lemon Peel

Squeeze the lemon peel into the mixing glass and drop in, add the rest of the ingredients, stir with ice, strain into a double old fashioned rinsed with Laphroaig Scotch, and add a large ice cube.Two Wednesdays ago, I began flipping through an online flashcard set for Dead Rabbit for their Summer 2015 menu change. The recipe that grabbed me was the Drawing Room by Jillian Vose as perhaps a Rusty Nail meets a Highlander. I have had the duo of Benedictine and Drambuie before in the rum-mezcal Farewell & Adieu and Cognac-based Rusty Bene, so I wanted to see what the French liqueur could do to the classic Rusty Nail. Here, the Drawing Room led off with peat smoke, herbal, and allspice aromas. Next, honey and caramel on the sip transformed into smoky Scotch, herbal, and allspice flavors on the swallow.