(April 24, 2021 at 1:02 pm)Angrboda Wrote:Quote:I don’t remember how or why the Smoky Cokey came up in conversation, but I do remember that it sounded like a horrible idea.
The cocktail is essentially what it sounds like: a Coca-Cola that tastes smoky thanks to the addition of peaty scotch. Specifically, the drink as it was explained to me requires Lagavulin 16, a scotch that sells for around $75 a bottle in the United States—not exactly cheap.
Never one to turn down the chance to try a new cocktail, I was up for having one. That said, I happened to be in Scotland at the time touring scotch distilleries, and asking a bartender to mix a high-quality scotch with run-of-the-mill Coke seemed like a recipe for getting removed from the bar, perhaps by force.
Luckily, the man who first mentioned the drink, Ewan Gunn, happens to be both Scottish and the Global Scotch Whisky Master for Diageo, the parent company of Lagavulin. Counting on the fact that they wouldn’t kick a whisky master out for the order, we asked Gunn to order a round at a bar in the small Scottish town of Oban.
The Smoky Cokey was fantastic. After our first one, my travel companions and I were hooked.
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I have reservations about putting a $75 scotch into Coke. But, man, it does sound good. Laphroaig may work here too.
