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“My favorite holiday movie is Remember the Night, written by Preston Sturges and starring the best actress
of all time, Barbara Stanwyck. The movie follows an assistant district attorney played by Fred MacMurray who
is prosecuting Stanwyck’s character for stealing a bracelet from a department store. Because of a snowstorm,
the trial gets postponed, leaving Stanwyck to spend the holidays in jail. MacMurray takes pity, bails her out
and realizes they both are from Indiana, and he offers to drive her back to see her family. On the road trip, one
thing leads to another, and they fall for each other. It’s a movie about going home, family, and love, and how all
of that adds up to everything. For anyone who loves It’s a Wonderful Life, but maybe doesn’t need to see it for
the 20th time, this is a great substitute from 6 years earlier.”
“For this movie, I pair with a recipe that Glenn came up within our tasting room called the Harlan Nog, named
after my hometown. It’s a nog in name, but maybe more of a flip or a fizz in execution. In any case, this is a
winter warmer that features Kings County’s Oat whiskey, which is just like our bourbon, but subs oatmeal for
the grits in the mash cooker when we start to cook whiskey. It’s a funny name given my own provenance: it’s cer-
tainly nothing that anyone in Harlan, Kentucky would whip up Seagram’s gin with Gatorade chaser was about
as close to cocktails as we got growing up, and things don’t change very fast there), but home is always both a
real and an imaginary place, and sometimes a good cocktail in the dead of winter with a little spice and heat
can make any place home for now.”
Colin Spoelman
Co-Founde r, Kings County Distillery
HARLAN NOG
By Glenn Marshall
½ oz. honey syrup
1 ½ oz. Kings County Distillery Oat Whiskey
½ oz. orange juice
1/3 oz. Atsby Armadillo Cake (sweet vermouth)
¾ oz. simple syrup
1 egg white
aromatic bitters
Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker, dry shake.
Pour over fresh ice. Top with shaved cinnamon and a
few liberal dashes of aromatic bitters. Garnish with a
cinnamon stick.
Kings County Distillery Oat Whiskey • $45
Kings County Distilling sums up Oat Whiskey
best, “If bourbon is distilled grits, think of this
whiskey as distilled oatmeal.” This year-old
whiskey has a creamy mouthfeel and the taste
you’d expect from a bowl of toasted, spiced
porridge. It also made a killing at ADI’s Spirit
Competition in 2016 with a Gold Medal and Best
of Category for Alt Whiskey.
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