How to make the perfect Irish whiskey 'hot toddy' for Christmas

Powers is a good Irish whiskey??

@johnshiel, that sounds even better.

further hot whiskey commentary... around here we use the raw sugar, brownish large crystals that just seeem to taste better... and we put a metal coaster on top of the finished product so it can steep for a few minutes... much more robust infusion of lemon and especially the cloves... slainte!

dear ms/mr malone, this is a welcome and warming suggestion you make at the onset of real winter, which you have none of in ireland but are still kind enough to keep alive the time honored tradition of the restorative, the hot whiskey... but in the interest of clarity, I would feed back some confusion I had with your article... namely your use of the word pips. never heard it, don't care to look it up as it is likely a dialectic oddity of your region, but... after slicing lemon, the only thing I discard might be the seeds... might those also be the pips?

Sounds good. I'll try it!