I drank White Russians recently with a friend who is an experienced bartender and bar manager recently and he said they always have Kahlua and milk around. People order strange things but there’s shots that include both that people order more than you’d think.
He basically said that they make sure they have all the ingredients but adjust quantity for the expected crowd. He works at a music venue nowadays and after awhile, you know what drinks are gonna get ordered based on the band’s core audience. But they’d send a bar back out to get more milk at the corner store if someone was a regular or spending money.
“Jimmy, you gotta run to the store.”
“Why?”
“The Dude’s here.”
Places like the bowling alley aren't surprising though since he's a regular and always orders the same stuff
But Maude's bar cart has milk? And kahlua is one of the 10ish bottles?
My cupboard has less than 10 bottles of spirits and kahlua is definitely one of them. Is it not a core liqueur?
Well the doctor is very thorough
I've never NOT been able to get a White Russian.
A Rum Runner, on the other hand, is quite difficult. Banana liqueur is a rarity on bar shelves.As it should be.
Careful man, there's a beverage here.
As someone that drinks white Russians as my go to drink, I can confirm that this is the case. I rarely say, "I'll have a white Russian" and instead often ask, "can you make a white Russian?"
I asked that once at a friend's wedding that had an open bar. They could, in fact, and I've rarely regretted anything more than the monster I created when I shared that fact with other guests. Those poor bartenders probably didn't get to make anything else and everyone was absolutely shithammered because they're so delicious and easy to drink.
My local bartender calls them adult milkshakes
Ingredients:
- 2 ounces vodka
- 1 ounce Kahlúa / coffee liqueur
- 1 ounce heavy cream
yeah I'm curious what bars don't have this; sure, been to a bunch of can-only after hours dive bars, but no one's getting mixed drinks there, unless you consider a boilermaker a mixed drink lol.
The cream/milk is what surprises me. Would bars have that in the 90s?
Why does it make a difference that its the 90's? its not like refrigeration was only invented a bit before that. They had frosted glasses and everything. Im surprised folks would think a bar would not have the ingredients for a white russian.
As someone who was born in 1969, it sometimes feels like people think I grew up in a cave banging rocks together for entertainment. I think it might be that there has truly been a dramatic shift in how people learn about things. It's like now that everyone can pull up a bazillion people recording events and watch them unfold it is harder for them to connect to the previous generations, where we all had vaguely similar experiences of information transmission. It isn't hard for me to believe that sending a letter in the 18th century could take weeks or even months for it to arrive and a response get back to a person. I grew up seeing disclaimers that a response to a letter or order could take 6-8 weeks from a company in the US. Nowadays we get ordering stuff from overseas could take that long, but something from within the states? It's unconscionable that it would take 2 weeks.
The Kahlúa would be my only surprise. Ghetto Russians are alright - chocolate milk when Kahlúa is unavailable.
Ghetto Russians are alright - chocolate milk when Kahlúa is unavailable.
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I'd just like to drop a mention for the Big Lebowski bar in Reykjavik. Awesome place, serves like 30 variants on the White Russian. Great burgers.
Don't pee on the rug. They are very clear about that.
What... Vodka and milk?
And coffee liqueur, usually Kahlua.
Guess I'm relegated to vodka and cranberry juice
try kahlua and orange juice: tootsie roll!
