It so happens that this week’s Book Bench Lit Spirits drink is maritime themed—and also sounds pretty tasty—so I thought I’d share. It’s inspired by Ishmael from Moby-Dick:
Call me Michael. If you are about to set sail, and you find yourself in Massachusetts, cold, and alone, I’ve just the thing for you. A classic flip: beer, rum, and sugar heated with a red-hot iron. The iron carmelizes the sugars, heats the drink, and produces a potent and warming libation. I add cinnamon, allspice dram, and cream.
It’s quite cold and rainy right now but due to “the dearth of red-hot irons in most of our lives” will not be making this for myself any time soon.
(via Alison)
This also sounds like what Dickens calls a flip. At some point, at least in the US, a flip became a sweet drink which included raw egg whites (e.g., the Louisiana flip). Try to order one of those now.