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By A.S. Erickson | Friday, October 13, 2006

Montana Moose Drool

1 1/2 oz Brandy
1/2 Dry Vermouth
1 oz Port

Stir all ingredients over ice in
Old Fashioned glass.

When the sun sinks fast and men stand tall, when the arm is long and the rifle straight, and when the snow blankets the earth and night has no end, that is the time. The time to search for that holy draught of untold wealth is at hand. The first time I made that trek along the divide in search of dark wisdom, I was but an 18-year-old greenhorn following in the frozen footsteps of my now dead uncle, the infamous Billy Berg. We had set out in the late afternoon of the 23rd of December; the sun had not shown its face since the 15th, and it would be a long while before it did so again. My uncle gave me an old pair of snowshoes and we left the road. The snow was high and the cold was deep; we walked through the night and on into the next morning. I had long since stopped taking note of the world around me, concentrating only on stepping into the prints that my uncle left. We walked until noon of the 24th when, upon crossing a frozen creek, my uncle picked up the beast’s scent. The hunted led us up and down the valley, until we cornered him at the top of a long couloir. Uncle Billy took aim and shot, the beast fell, but in the avalanche that ensued my uncle was buried—never to be seen again (may god have mercy on his soul). I waited 3 hours, as my uncle had instructed me, and then scraped the frozen saliva from the beast’s rigid tongue. No questions were asked when I arrived back home; for I held in my hand the Guinness of the Americas: Montana Moose Drool.

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