# What's in your egg nog?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-egg-nog/928849>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** food-cooking\
**Created:** [December 24, 2020, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-egg-nog/928849 "2020-12-24T22:55:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-egg-nog/928849/21 "2020-12-25T20:16:13Z")

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We’ve played with various boozes in the eggnog and they’ve all turned out pretty well. I actually prefer Jameson’s but have also used Armagnac, Bacardi oakheart (This was also quite good), silver spiced rum, and Kraken (No.3). I think you need a liquor with a hint of sweetness to cut through all that richness.  
FWIW, this is the best recipe for eggnog I’ve tried yet. Very different from the Pepto thickness carton stuff.

> **[Anna Olson's crème brûlée eggnog](https://eatnorth.com/eat-north/anna-olsons-creme-brulee-eggnog)**
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> An extra special eggnog for the holidays

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**Post date:** [December 26, 2020, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-egg-nog/928849/22 "2020-12-26T02:13:11Z")

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My egg nog is much closer to a McDonald’s egg nog shake than typical nog and I typically use rum extract rather than the real thing unless my SO falls off the wagon.

> [@solost](#):
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> Probably should leave the booze out though, since it acts as antifreeze.

Depends on how much booze is used. I’ve made alcoholic ice cream in our electric contraption on occasion.

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**Post date:** [October 20, 2021, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-egg-nog/928849/23 "2021-10-20T11:30:49Z")

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> [@What\_Exit](#):
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> Neat trick, if you have an ice cream machine or a friends with one. Eggnog is pretty much ready to make into ice cream. We did this twice when we had a machine. It was the best ice cream we made.

It makes good bread pudding also.

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**Post date:** [October 20, 2021, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-egg-nog/928849/24 "2021-10-20T11:35:06Z")

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Dark Rum, not Bourbon. Enough of it, in fact, so that it could really be termed, “Egg Grog”. 😈

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