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43 minutes ago, Mach 1 said:

This thread was inspirational.  I went for it yesterday and made egg nog following the Alton Brown recipe.  Holy shit, I feel like a Philistine.  

Had some store bought in the fridge and almost had to spit it out after drinking the homemade.

Cheers. 

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Well done.  Once you've had homemade, store-bought stuff is completely undrinkable.  I grew up thinking I hated egg nog because all I'd ever had was premade.  Then when my then-girlfriend-now-wife made some of her family recipe homemade nog for me, it changed my outlook completely.

As many have said before, they're not even the same beverage.

I made a batch of Alton's aged nog last Sunday.  Used 2 Stars bourbon, Hennessy, and Navy Bay rum.  All told, it made 3 quart mason jars with just enough left over for me to sample a glass un-aged.  Pretty tasty, but I'm thinking it will be well worth the wait.  For whatever reason, not all of my sugar dissolved with mixing with the yolks.  I beat them pretty good, but eventually decided the sugar just wasn't going to dissolve until the booze was added.  Hopefully everything gets good and acquainted over the next couple weeks.  I might crack open a jar this weekend for Lights in the Heights.

  • 2 weeks later...

So Alton’s “regular” recipe uses the egg whites, but the aged recipe leaves them out. Has anyone tried both? I don’t want to age it I want drink it now but I’ve always included the whites.

Impatient so I went sans whites. I think I like it better.

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Im a ride or die Peenslyvania Dutch man. I add a couple shots of decent bourbon to kick up the ABV. @ me

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Bought a bottle of that a few weeks back. Cheap and decent and strong, I polished it off pretty quick. Can’t touch homemade though.

2 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Im a ride or die Peenslyvania Dutch man. I add a couple shots of decent bourbon to kick up the ABV. @ me

My man. 
 

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Made my first ever batch of homemade tonight. Very easy, and as others have said, blows store bought out of the water. 

So Alton’s “regular” recipe uses the egg whites, but the aged recipe leaves them out. Has anyone tried both? I don’t want to age it I want drink it now but I’ve always included the whites.


Made the regular tonight but up'd the booze from the recipe a bit. I'm thinking about switching to no whites next year. Always have to mix or stir to get them back incorporated.

I don't like eggnog mainly because I don't like eggs but I have taken the Colorado bulldog / White Russian as my holiday drink of choice substitute for eggnog. Now when I make them at holiday gatherings people seem to prefer them to eggnog

The "not egg nog thead" is over there --------------->

 

 

Anyway, we've made it both ways and I definitely prefer it WITH the whites.  You separate the eggs and whip them separately, to soft peaks.  It provides more body/structure to the final product, but you definitely need to let it sit at least overnight, so the mixture can "relax" a little bit.

I still have a couple quarts I saved off fom the 7 gallons we made for our party.  I was going to keep them until next year, but I'm pretty sure they're not going to make it past this weekend.

 

 

Hmm. It will be a little work but I’ll have to side by side with and without whites. The dozen-egg version of the no-whites recipe I made two days ago is almost gone already.

On 12/24/2019 at 2:31 PM, Buzzrock said:

So Alton’s “regular” recipe uses the egg whites, but the aged recipe leaves them out. Has anyone tried both? I don’t want to age it I want drink it now but I’ve always included the whites.

i'm assuming the whites deflate after a bit so, if you're aging, going through the extra steps doesn't ultimately add anything. 

this stuff is pretty good after a month.  going to leave one mason jar in the  back until next year to see what the difference is. 

  • 4 months later...

I just noticed a big fat mason jar of the Alton nog peeking at me from the back of the fridge.  I made it a week before Christmas.  Looking at this quote from the recipe, it sounds like I might need to have a drink.

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Yeah, this recipe has a lot of booze in it, but safety is always first and you’ll want at least 20 percent alcohol by volume to stamp out any microbial baddies the raw eggs might have brought on board. I also think the various natural flavorants in the spirits provide a fantastic complexity as the nog ages, with my peak target generally being between 4 and 6 months.

 

6 minutes ago, threesheets said:

I just noticed a big fat mason jar of the Alton nog peeking at me from the back of the fridge.  I made it a week before Christmas.  Looking at this quote from the recipe, it sounds like I might need to have a drink.

 

hah, happened to us a couple years ago.  ours didn't have liquor in it though =/

7 hours ago, threesheets said:

I just noticed a big fat mason jar of the Alton nog peeking at me from the back of the fridge.  I made it a week before Christmas.  Looking at this quote from the recipe, it sounds like I might need to have a drink.

 

made mine in early november.  was planning on waiting it out a year but maybe not

  • 5 months later...

Made a batch of Alton's aged eggnog last night. Tried just a bit right away and it tasted great. Put it in a big mason jar in the fridge to mature. It's gonna be good.

A few days ago I found my last quart jar from last year's batch, at the back of the beer fridge.  I'm tempted, since the weather is cooler, but I'm gonna try to hold out and do a vertical alongside this year's batch when we make it.

 

 

I just took a look at mine (batched last December).  Looks great.  Perfect consistency.  Only thing I noticed is it looks like all the nutmeg is stuck to the bottom of the jar.

1 hour ago, threesheets said:

I just took a look at mine (batched last December).  Looks great.  Perfect consistency.  Only thing I noticed is it looks like all the nutmeg is stuck to the bottom of the jar.

I don't ever put nutmeg into the nog itself, but always have fresh nutmeg and a grater for when it is served.

 

2 hours ago, threesheets said:

I just took a look at mine (batched last December).  Looks great.  Perfect consistency.  Only thing I noticed is it looks like all the nutmeg is stuck to the bottom of the jar.

That always happens to mine.  I have to shake it up before I pour some out.

46 minutes ago, utee94 said:

I don't ever put nutmeg into the nog itself, but always have fresh nutmeg and a grater for when it is served.

 

Both is the correct answer. I put some in the brew and will add more when we drink it. 

1 minute ago, Mo Horn said:

Both is the correct answer. I put some in the brew and will add more when we drink it. 

We serve around 100 people (in non-COVID-years) and I don't know why, but some folks don't like nutmeg.  Fresh-grated on top at the time of pouring is the way we roll.  And since it's perfect that way, no worries at all.

 

Yeah,  rookie mistake on my part.  It was my first try so I went straight off the recipe. 

I’m starting a new tradition at my house, and that is to put up a batch of Alton’s on Halloween night, and let it ride until Christmas.  I’ll check back in with you boys on Christmas Eve. 

Pennsylvania Dutch has been my go to previously. 

On 12/9/2019 at 9:18 PM, utee94 said:

Well done.  Once you've had homemade, store-bought stuff is completely undrinkable.  I grew up thinking I hated egg nog because all I'd ever had was premade.  Then when my then-girlfriend-now-wife made some of her family recipe homemade nog for me, it changed my outlook completely.

As many have said before, they're not even the same beverage.

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Probably not eggnog, but it could be

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  • 2 weeks later...

nog went in the fridge on Sunday.  An appropriate first use for the kitchenaid mixer we picked up off the local buy/sell group.  

Based upon the amazingness of just drinking that last little bit of leftover nog in the mixing bowl, no way any of it lasts past christmas

1 hour ago, Lazarus Bocanegra said:

nog went in the fridge on Sunday.  An appropriate first use for the kitchenaid mixer we picked up off the local buy/sell group.  

Based upon the amazingness of just drinking that last little bit of leftover nog in the mixing bowl, no way any of it lasts past christmas

You can always make more!

ideas for egg white usage?  i think i still have a pint in the back of the freezer from last year's nog.  meringue is the obvious one, of course.

Edited by elfenix

2 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

I don't see how anyone can drink that nasty shit

and we all know you make great life decisions.

15 minutes ago, elfenix said:

ideas for egg white usage?  i think i still have a pint in the back of the freezer from last year's nog.  meringue is the obvious one, of course.

Do you even lift, bro?  You add them to your protein shakes, obviously.

1 hour ago, utee94 said:

Do you even lift, bro?  You add them to your protein shakes, obvs 

Fixed it for the guy who would actually say that

Mostly came here to say Fuck Yeah! Also finna mix up a batch to taste against the quart of 2019 batch in the fridge.


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4 hours ago, elfenix said:

ideas for egg white usage?  i think i still have a pint in the back of the freezer from last year's nog.  meringue is the obvious one, of course.

I made a pavlova with some of mine. Used others to make pisco sours. Egg white omelettes. Angel food cake is always a great choice. 

  • 2 weeks later...

I lost my first batch of aged stuff a month or so ago when we lost power for four days in the aftermath of Zeta. I forgot that it was in the back of the beer fridge. Sad panda. 

31 minutes ago, RollLeft said:

Best non age recipe?  

Alton Brown also has a non age one, both cooked and uncooked, depending on your preference. That's where I'd start. 

12 hours ago, RollLeft said:

Best non age recipe?  

Alton Brown's is the gold standard.

Mixed our aged batch up tonight.  It seems even better this year, not sure why.  Only thing different was he bought Promised Land whole milk because HEB was out of their brand and we had to use a 1/4 cup of Flor de Cana rum because we didn't have quite enough of the Belizean stuff we normally use.

  • 2 weeks later...

Made our first batch of the season last night, just a small one since we’re not doing our huge annual holiday party this year for obvious reasons.  We’ll have 3 other families over, tonight for a distanced backyard get together around the  fire pit.

 

 

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  • 2 weeks later...

I forgot to make a batch in October to age, but I just finished a batch for Friday. I used only bourbon last year. Went with bourbon, brandy, and rum for this year's batch. 

Merry Christmas, you palace of degenerates.  Alton Brown aged eggnog slams. 

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