I like Eggo waffles just as a great deal as the subsequent person, if not much more.
Increasing up, if I wasn’t owning a bagel or yogurt for breakfast, odds are fantastic that I was owning a pair of homestyle waffles before heading off to college.
That mentioned, I’ve in no way after had an Eggo waffle and assumed to myself you know what would make this superior? If it obtained me drunk.
So you can envision my shock when I learned that Kellogg’s was partnering with Tennessee’s Sugarlands Distilling Co. to make an Eggo-branded eggnog liqueur.
In its marketing products, Eggo promises the brand collaboration arrived about due to the fact mothers and fathers say they like to get pleasure from their waffles through their “night me time” soon after the little ones have been place to mattress.
The liqueur, Kellogg’s factors, will “give grownups a one of a kind way to L’Eggo of the holiday getaway anxiety this time.”
Eggo fandom apart, the “L’Eggo” pun by itself was adequate to get me to want to try out the Eggo Nog.
The recipe alone is a slight tweak from Sugarlands’ existing Appalachian Sippin’ Cream, which the distillery claims has been increased with hints of cinnamon and nutmeg to make it festive for the vacations.
Immediately after a generous pour, I came absent with mixed thoughts about Eggo’s older people-only consume.
Initially, the very good information: it’s delicious.
Nevertheless the 40 proof rum-based beverage surely smells rather potent — you can truly feel the high alcoholic beverages material in the again of your throat when you consume it — it is really smooth and creamy on the tongue and incredibly nice to sip.
The cinnamon and nutmeg are distinguished, and in general it is really a deserving applicant if you might be on the lookout to get a minor buzz likely with your eggnog.
Now for the terrible news, if you can simply call it that. Sugarlands offers that “every sip [is] reminiscent of a perfectly toasted Eggo waffle,” but the truth of the matter is that the Eggo taste is nowhere to be located.
It truly is sweet and tasty, absolutely sure, but if you gave another person a glass of this with out exhibiting them the bottle they would in no way imagine you’d handed them anything at all other than a sturdy glass of ‘nog.
Despite liking the sipping product, it remaining promoted as an Eggo item remaining me feeling like it was lacking one thing. Eventually, I wished I’d experienced a waffle alternatively.
But however the Eggo taste just isn’t there, the Eggo branding surely is.
The jar the liqueur will come in is an attractive brilliant yellow like Eggo’s packaging, and a person I am going to keep about for the novelty element prolonged right after the eggnog has operate dry.
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