Rusty Nail

The Craft of the Cocktail

Dale DeGroff - 2002

Dale DeGroff traces the Rusty Nail from the Little Club in the 1950s — where Ted Saucier listed it as the Little Club #2 in his 1951 Bottoms Up — to its heyday at the 21 Club in the 1960s, and floats the Drambuie on top rather than stirring it in, with the cheeky instruction to stir with your index finger if you want to be a real Rat Packer.