Ask Rusty Nail

Dear Drinkers.

I do hope you, and yours, are enjoying this St. Valentines Day.

However.

We are here gathered. In recognition. In remembrance. In celebration.

We gather here, today, for Spock The Cat.

Spock has, sadly, passed. I can only offer Wiggles my deepest, and most heartfelt condolences.

Spock, however. Spock, I am certain, left this world knowing that above, and beyond all else. He was loved. By his mom, most of all. But also by thousands; by *Thousands*, who reached their five fingers out to his seven, and sought to assist him in his hours of need. And assist him we did, and we have. There’s still one Donor Recipe to come, and don’t think I’ve forgotten it. First, though. Remember his space-eye? The sideways growing claw? The Polydactyl-Polydactyly? Remember him. Remember this goober of a butt, who, no doubt, wherever he is, is trying to grab onto something using far too many toes. I know of at least one thing he managed to grab onto. All of our hearts. Goodbye Spock, and Good Boy. It is with both a heavy heart, and deep honor, that The Pony Keg inducts its first honoree from real life.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

It’s Spock The Cat.

I have no rose to lay before your marker. No dirt to toss upon your soil. I’ve got this, buddy. So this’ll have to do.

A Spock The Cat

Ingredients:

2oz Godiva white chocolate liqueur

1oz Gosling's Black Seal rum

1oz Rumchata

1oz Amarula Cream liqueur

Frozen Tumbler.

Ice

Chocolate Syrup

Magic Shell

A plate

A brand new paintbrush, one of the little tiny ones, that you’re going to clean, and only ever use for this.

A Ferrero Rondnoir. (This is the Dark Chocolate version of a Ferrero Rocher)

A Swizzle-Stick. (You can ask, if you don’t know what these are, they’re cocktail stirrers, you want ones that are kinda pointy on one end.)

Special Equipment:

A Cocktail Shaker.

Making a Spock The Cat.

Place Tumbler into freezer. Get this as cold as possible.

Pour Magic Shell and Chocolate Syrup onto the plate in a 2 Magic Shell to 1 Chocolate Syrup squeeze ratio, then swirl up with paintbrush.

Remove glass from freezer, and, using paintbrush, paint on a big chocolate spot on the inside of the glass. Put it back in the freezer for an hour or so. Repeat this twice more.

Pour Godiva, Gosling’s, Rumchata, Amarula, and Ice into Shaker.

Shake!

Gently, but firmly, while it’s still inside it’s foil, push the cocktail stirrer all the way through the chocolate. So that it’s sitting where it’d be partially, but not wholly, submerged by the drink.

Remove glass from freezer

Place Stirrer-Garnish in glass, without scratching chocolate, but without wasting time.

Strain shaker into glass.

Drink!

You’ve just finished making a Spock The Cat!

This recipe uses the same technique I’ve used a few times on here, of freezing chocolate on the walls of the glass. This time, with the white drink, the chocolate splotches will give the resemblance of Spock’s Coat. The garnish, peeking up out of the drink? Why, that’s Spock’s goofy Space-Eye. And the warm feeling this drink’ll leave in your chest and cheeks? That’s a thought or two, for the little guy this drink honors.

Dear Drinkers, We come to honor yet another of those who have taken the time, money, and compassion in their hearts, to save a seven-toed spot-monster; Spock. Yes, today’s drink is honoring one of those who have helped to try and save that dear kitty, but, in truth, they’re not far from that at all, in their daily life; brewing up huge batches of medicine and magical ministrations, and taking them to major cities, delivering them free of charge. Well, we here at The Pony Keg know a thing or two about brewing up huge batches of stuff.~ This one won’t be big, but it’ll getcha.~ 

Ladies and Gentlemen, 

It’s Sundried Tomato! (NSFW)

He does his best work in his garden, but that doesn’t mean that he’s not capable of shaking the dirt off his hooves, and finding some time to cut loose and play a prank or two. 

A Sundried Tomato

Ingredients:

2 cups Tomato Juic...6oz Spicy Bloody Mary Mix. (YOU ARE GONNA THANK ME FOR THAT,)

1/2oz Honey Simple Syrup (Put 2oz honey in a mug with 1oz hot water. Tah-dah, you’ve made the syrup.)

2oz Honey Vodka

1 1/2oz Pineapple Juice

Ice

Salt and Pepper to taste

Lime Wedges

Chilled Pint Glass

Pickled green beans, olives and cocktail onions

Sundried Tomatoes

Few Shakes Tabasco Sauce.

1 Tiger Lily

Mint-sprigs.

Special Equipment:

A Cocktail Shaker.

Making a Sundried Tomato.

Put Ice into Shaker.

Put Simple Syrup over Ice

Pour everything else that is not the limes, olives, onions, green beans, glass, tomatoes, Lily, or Mint into the shaker. 

Shake!

Pour into glass.

Add limes, olives, onions, green beans, and tomatoes  (JUST A FEW OF EACH, DO NOT CRAM THIS FULL OF STUFF.)

Decorate with Lily and Mint(Stick them stem down into the glass); both are edible, as an after-drink breath cleanser!

Drink!

You’ve just made a  Sundried Tomato! (NSFW)!

The choice of ingredient here was glaringly obvious. The use of Honey and Mint, though, were requested as they’re favorite flavors of Sundried Tomato. The Lily was included as a nod to Sundried’s own desires, doubts, and determination.

Remember folks! “Donate $50 to Save Spock And Get A Rusty Nail Recipe”

You may want to meander over to http://drambuieandscotch.tumblr.com/ . You might find a Mod-Blog I was peer-pressured into creating after five years without one. Do not expect deep truths. Expect snark and cat-videos.

Dear Drinkers,

Once again, it is time to honor one of the supporters of our dear friend, Spock. When they heard the call, they answered. Which is keeping in the overall personality for this honoree. She’s eccentric, but then, it doesn’t seem like anyone who travels around like she does avoids a little eccentricity. She might be a touch overly amorous, but that just means she’s got love to spare, and love’s a coin all too rare, today.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

It’s Doctor Dimension!

This Time Traveller might be on the younger end of things from where she originates, but that still puts her well past the legal age here, and easily able to enjoy the drink that The Pony Keg has concocted to honor this dedicated and devoted feline supporter.

A Doctor Dimension

Ingredients:

2oz Irish Whiskey

1oz Simple Syrup

1/2oz Orange Juice

1/2oz Lemon Juice

Ice

1/2oz Red Wine (A Shiraz is suggested.)

Chilled Rocks Glass

Special Equipment:

A Cocktail Shaker. A Spoon

Making a Doctor Dimension.

Put Ice into Shaker.

Put Simple Syrup over Ice

Pour Whiskey over Simple Syrup.

Pour juice over Whiskey

Shake!

Place ice in glass.

Strain shaker into glass.

Pour red wine over back of spoon, VERY GENTLY, VERY SLOWLY, to float it on the top of the drink.

Drink!

You’ve just finished making a Doctor Dimension!

Our dear Honoree has a couple of aspects I wanted to capture here. One was a love, on her part, of Red Wine. This can make the cocktail choice tricky, as wine-inclusive cocktails are ones I’ve always found to be more difficult to craft. Thankfully, her Irish Heritage suggested a solution to me, and produced the drink you see before you.

Remember folks! “Donate $50 to Save Spock And Get A Rusty Nail Recipe”

You may want to meander over to http://drambuieandscotch.tumblr.com/ . You might find a Mod-Blog I was peer-pressured into creating after five years without one. Do not expect deep truths. Expect snark and cat-videos.

Dear Drinkers,

We come to another of the drinks designed in honor of those supporting our dear Spock’s GoFundMe! This Service-minded Patriot spends his days fixing up Aerial Cav., and his nights drinking with the guys. Here at The Pony Keg, we appreciate this kind of Service, and, moreover, appreciate that kind of Drinker.~

Ladies and Gentlemen,

It’s Saber!

An Army Helicopter Maintenance Worker, This guy is driven by the rectitude of his convictions, and his devotion to his compatriots. For those factors, and for helping a cat in need, The Pony Keg honors him.

A Sabre Rattler

Ingredients:

1 1/2oz Cognac

1oz Citron

1/2oz Grapefruit Juice

1/2oz Simple Syrup

Ice

Sparkling White Wine (Ok, Champagne, but really, do what you can on your budget. Most Grunts don’t have enough cash-on-hand for Brut Champagne.))

Chilled Wine Glass

Special Equipment:

A Cocktail Shaker.

Making a Sabre Rattler.

Put Ice into Shaker.

Put Simple Syrup over Ice

Pour Cognac over Simple Syrup.

Pour Citron over Cognac

Pour juice over Citron

Shake!

Strain into glass.

Top with Sparkling White

Drink!

You’ve just finished making a Saber Rattler! (Based on Saber)

The drink this is based upon, according to legend, originated back in WWI, among American Pilots, there, fighting, prior to America’s Entry into the war. Those Americans took the basic cocktail, and added Cognac to it, thereby ramping up the alcoholic content to a more American Palette. Those original pilots compared it to being hit by a 75mm cannon. My version increases that content yet again, while balancing the acidity, to help mask its effects. I think that’ll just about do for Armored Cav.~

Remember folks! “Donate $50 to Save Spock And Get A Rusty Nail Recipe”

You may want to meander over to http://drambuieandscotch.tumblr.com/ . You might find a Mod-Blog I was peer-pressured into creating after five years without one. Do not expect deep truths. Expect snark and cat-videos.

Dear Drinkers,

It’s been a while. How are you all doing? Staying busy? Were you holidays as joyful and restful as they could be? Ready to face 2017 with a renewed sense of grit and determination?

Well, today’s honoree knows a little bit about grit and determination. She’s had to use quite a bit of it throughout her life, in order to reach where she is today. But, through vigor, and perseverance, and an ironclad knowledge of who she is, she’s not only managed to earn a place among The Pony Keg’s Honorees, but to be the first in the “Donate $50 to Save Spock And Get A Rusty Nail Recipe” beneficiaries.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

It’s Star Struck! (Star Struck’s Mod Link)

She’s managed to make it to where she stands today, and where she’s standing is, frankly, Fabulous.

A Star Struck

Ingredients:

1 1/2oz Cranberry Vodka

3 dashes Grenadine

1oz Cointreau

4oz Lemon Lime Soda

Ice

1 Pink Hibiscus

1 tuft Cotton Candy

Maraschino Cherry

Chilled Tumbler

Special Equipment:

None! You can make a Star Struck using just your hands.

Making a Star Struck.

Put Ice into glass.

Pour vodka over ice.

Pour Cointreau over vodka

Add Grenadine Dashes

Pour Soda over Grenadine

Top with Cherry, Cotton Candy, and Hibiscus

Drink!

You’ve just finished making a Star Struck! (Star Struck’s Mod Link)

This drink is garnished in an overwhelmingly over-the-top “Girly-Drink” fashion, as much as I hate to use that denotation, echoing Star Struck’s own usual personal presentation. The drink itself is based off of a recipe that is named after a key section of Star Struck’s own personal development.~

Remember folks! “Donate $50 to Save Spock And Get A Rusty Nail Recipe”

You may want to meander over to http://drambuieandscotch.tumblr.com/ . You might find a Mod-Blog I was peer-pressured into creating after five years without one. Do not expect deep truths. Expect snark and cat-videos.

Dear Drinkers, welcome to fall! We’re fully into the month of Spoopiness, and the temperatures are finally starting to fall enough that wearing delightful coats is finally an option that is not a penury. Today’s honoree is, herself, no stranger to hardship. No stranger to abuse, and overstress. And her ability to overcome these trials,overcome every obstacle placed in her way, and manages to do so with a smile on her face... when she isn’t running in terror. Thankfully, she doesn’t remember that terror too often.

Ladies and Gentlemen.

It’s Dolly!

This brave little Donkey Pony remains as upbeat and optimistic as she can, given the fact that she has the ever so occasional fugue-state. Despite this, she does what she can, from day to day to get by, and get better; and that’s something we should all admire.

A Dolly

Ingredients:

8 ice cubes.

3 scoops Phish Food Ice Cream.

1oz Stoli Sticki

1oz Baileys Irish crème

1oz Kahlua

Whipped Cream

Chocolate Sprinkles

Maraschino Cherry

Chilled Tumbler

Spoon

Straw

Special Equipment:

A Blender

Making a Dolly.

Put Ice, Ice Cream, and Liquor into Blender

Blend until smooth.

Pour into chilled glass

Top with whipped cream

Sprinkle with chocolate sprinkles.

Top with Cherry

Add straw

Drink!

You’ve just finished making a Dolly! 

The use of the spoon is to allow you to eat the chocolate chunks from the ice cream. This drink is modified from the recipe for a Mudslide. The Honey Vodka increases the sweetness, and better hides the alcoholic taste. The use of the Phish Food Ice Cream introduces marshmallow into the drink, and further masks the liquor. Just like its honoree, it packs quite a punch, under the surface.~

You may want to meander over to http://drambuieandscotch.tumblr.com/ . You might find a newly created Mod-Blog I was peer-pressured into creating after five years without one. Do not expect deep truths. Expect snark and cat-videos.

Dear Drinkers. Y’all know I take requests. Well, today’s honoree comes from some very heartfelt ones of those. I’ve gotten a bundle of requests over the five years I’ve been running my blog. From requests to honor art, to requests to honor achievement, to requests just because they happened to really like the person. Today’s honoree, however, was requested multiple times, by multiple people, for what they meant and represented to the trans and genderqueer communities. Given the weight of that request, I’ve been working to try and find just the right recipe for today’s nominee, who isn’t quite one thing, and isn’t quite another, but IS one hundred percent himself, and that’s what we’re here to honor.

Ladies and Gentlemen

It’s Aero!

This be-scarfed little pegasus is doing his best to be who he is, and to figure out what he wants to be, with the help of some very loving parents, a big sister who treats him as big sisters are wont to do, a closet full of couture clothing, and a couple strategically placed magazines. Hopefully, he gets to where he’s going; and with a support network like that around him, I’d say he’s got a good chance.

An Aero

Ingredients:

2oz Tequila Reposado.

1 leaf Sorrel, finely chopped.

Ice

3 dashes grapefruit bitters

A chilled Collins glass

4oz fresh grapefruit juice

Miracle Berry

Special Equipment:

A Muddler

Making an Aero.

Chop Sorrel leaves

Put leaves and bitters into glass, and muddle.

Add ice.

Pour fluids into glass

Stjr.

Drink!

Eat berry.

Drink!

You’ve just finished making an Aero!

You’ll notice that this drink is actually consumed twice! The first time, you’ll notice the bitterness, and acidity that exists in the drink, leading to an unfinished feeling with regards to the flavor. Taking the Miracle Berry, however, coats your tastebuds in Miraclin, and allows the hidden flavors present behind those other factors to really shine through, and present themselves as they would want to be seen.

Seems kinda familiar, hmm?~

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Dear Drinkers! It’s been, goodness, more than a month, since I graced your screens and pallets with a brand new recipe honoring a member of our community. And, well. Ok. Look. Today’s honoree deserves this. They just do. There are few people out there who work as hard, or try as desperately to self-promote their content. Yes. I’m aware. It can come off as abrasive. It can come off as annoying. But honestly; we’d be poorer without them, and their terrifying, terrifying antics.

Ladies and Gentlemen

It’s Banana Pie

Ok. Look.

Look.

I know.

But there’s a whole bunch of blogs who’ve received their first follower, or reblog, from Banana Pie. Their gimmick is a goofy form of interaction that spans the community. “Gives U Banan” or “Gives u job in Banan Stand” are comments that we, as a community, for better or for worse, recognize as almost universal interactions and experiences.

And that deserves some recognition. That deserves a little honor.

A Banana Pie

Ingredients:

An entire banana, peeled.

A drinking straw.

2oz 99 Bananas

1oz Creme de Banane

A chilled Collins glass

A Knife

Coconut Pineapple Sparkling water

Special Equipment:

A refrigerator with a freezer.

Making a Banana Pie.

Take peeled banana and knife, and slice banana into slices a centimeter thick or less.

Skewer Banana Slices on Drinking Straw.

Put straw and bananas into Freezer, until they have frozen solid.

Pull frozen banana slices off of straw, and put them into the glass

Pour liquor into glass.

Top glass with Sparkling Water

Stir gently.

Drink!

You’ve just finished making a Banana Pie!

This drink uses a TON of Bananas. That sparkling water isn’t going to cut the sweetness; it’s going to modify it slightly, but this is a sticky-sweet drink. The frozen Banana slices are going to function like ice, but without diluting the drink. The natural banana flavor from the fruit is also going to do a tiny bit to curb that sweet. If you’re feeling adventurous, try adding an ounce of chocolate liqueur, or an ounce of Razzmatazz, or two ounces of cranberry juice.

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Dear Drinkers. It is July the Tenth. Which means something, here at The Pony Keg.

You see; once upon a time, it was 2011.

We hadn’t yet recovered from the Housing Market Crash, I’d recently been accepted back into college to finish my degree, and for MONTHS, I’d had friends ( @askcharliefoxtrot ) telling me about a cartoon I needed to watch, about magic, and friendship, and colorful cartoon horses.

I’d resisted. I’d derided. And then I watched it, and, well, I was boned.

July the Tenth, Two Thousand and Eleven. Inspired by blogs such as the brilliant, but sadly gone Ask Pinkamena Diane Pie, and @asklilmissrarity , I took to Tumblr, and I created Rusty Nail. I created The Pony Keg. I created the Everfree Distillery. I created the Four Left Hooves Brewery.

And I created, what I’d later learn, was the third OC Pony to ever be Ask-Blogged on Tumblr. Only a scant three months after the first Tumblrpon blog ever, Ask Apple Bloom. (Thanks go to @fishermod​ for the data)

Dear Drinkers. Ladies and Gentlemen. Genders of all Spectrums.

Welcome to The Pony Keg’s Five Year Anniversary.

I cannot even begin to count, or name, or thank all of the brilliant people who have left their mark on me, and my blog, over the years. @askcharliefoxtrot​ deserves deep thanks. @askmerriauthor​ , for drawing their dumb horse dating my dumb horse, and, inadvertently, leading me to start the recipes, rather than screw up their storyline. Thank you for that; its been one of the best things to happen to this blog. @asksweetcream​ , You relentless flirt. You were one of the ones to really help shape Rusty’s personality from a booze-horse, into what he is today. @askpenwright​ , and @jumped-out-pinkieanswers​ , for helping me realize that my blog didn’t have to be RP, or art. That my blog could be whatever, and however I wanted to interact with the community. @egophiliac​ and @ask-wiggles​ for being continual, relentless inspirations to do better, to be better, and to never be satisfied with what it is that I am doing; to strive, as a creator, to be better.

And @technomod​ . My significant other for nearly three years now (We’re comin’ up on October.~) Met me because of this blog. You have. You have done so very much, to keep me, to help me, to guide me. From the very bottom of my heart, thank you.

And so, Dear Drinkers, I present to you The Pony Keg’s Five Year Anniversary Honoring! Today’s honoree has had a rough go of it. Hungry. Lonely. Flea Bitten. Lost at Sea. Nearly drowned. And now, stranded somewhere that French is, in fact, the Lingua Franca. It’s a good thing that artistic talent is coin wherever you travel, and our poor little misfit has that in droves. The other thing they have in abundance is a far, far rarer coin, and one that will pay their way to whatever end the eventually reach.

Hope.

Ladies and Gentlemen...

It’s Crayon, the Homeless Artist! @ask-crayon-the-homeless-artist​ .

They have had it ROUGH. Life has been shitting on them from just about each and every direction it can, and, well, even if they’re too young for it yet, I figured they deserved something good, to match their relentless and boundless drive to survive.

Buckle in for this one, folks; occasionally, I get to make a recipe that makes me happy, even if it’s not going to be practical. And Crayon, dang, you get a good one.

A Crayon (The Homeless Artist) Ingredients:

Beefeater Gin

Lime Juice (A LOT of Lime Juice.)

Bottled tonic water

A Lemon

A glass

A Knife (You’ll want a sharp, thin one, like a paring knife, or a scaling knife)

A spoon

Food Coloring in each of the ROYGBIV colors.

One Verbena Blossom

Special Equipment:

An ice cube tray. A Hammer. A Medical Grade Liquid Nitrogen Aerosol Sprayer. Liquid Nitrogen.

Making a Crayon (The Homeless Artist).

Put Gin and Tonic Water into glass in a 2 parts Gin to 3 parts Tonic Water mixture

Cut end off Lemon.

Hollow out Lemon.

Fill Ice Cube tray with Lime Juice..

Put two to four drops of food coloring into each of the cube-sockets. Mix into Lime Juice. Create ROYGBIV Lime Juice. One color per socket.

Freeze Lime Juice.

Remove colored Lime Cubes.

Smash with hammer, creating shards of ice.

Place end of Nitrogen Sprayer at bottom of glass, and pull sprayer back upwards, spraying into drink. If done correctly, you have just made a Gin And Tonic Slush.

Spoon Slush into Lemon.

Top Slush with Rainbow Lime Ice.

Decorate with Verbena Blossom (Do Not Eat)

Use Spoon.

Drink/Eat!

You’ve just finished making a Crayon The Homeless Artist!

This creates a very traditional Gin and Tonic, using the two most common garnishes for the drink in exceptionally novel ways; one as an ice-decoration, one as the container from which you consume the concoction. It’s an unusual twist on what should be an expected experience. Much like our honoree. Also, the sheer quantity of citrus in this should probably help poor Crayon stave off Rickets.

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Keep sending in suggestions as to who you’d like to see made into a drink, and Stay Thirsty, Dear Drinkers!