KSK Commenter Draft: Mixed Drinks
05.23.08
Here at KSK, we’re alcoholics first, bloggers second. Actually, we’re masturbators first, then alcoholics, then football-needy douchebags, and somewhere around 15th or 16th on the list of priorities is blogging.
The point is, most of us are hammered most the time. Hell, I cracked open a bottle of DH Krahn at three o’clock yesterday. You can do these things when you work at home.
Which brings us to today’s commenter draft. Having already “drafted” beer last year — the quotes let you know the pun is cheap and intentional — we turn our attention now to mixed drinks. The premise: for the rest of your life, you can ONLY order the drinks you draft here. It’s a terrifying prospect, the possibility of a summer without mojitos and margaritas, or early NFL games without Bloody Marys, or a Tuesday morning without Mad Dog 20/20 and Sprite.
My first pick: a Manhattan.

And I want it with bourbon, not Canadian whiskey. Easy on the vermouth, served up in a rocks glass. (The only drinks that should be served in a martini glass are martinis, goddammit.)
Your turn. You know the rules: make your selection, then wait ten picks before choosing again. If you’re drafting something archaic or little-known, by all means, share a recipe. We’re always looking for new and fabulous ways to get tight.
NOTE: We do mean MIXED drinks. Hey, you like Johnnie Walker Blue Label “mixed” with ice cubes? You’re very clever, fuck off.


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Also, one other one that hasn’t been taken but I order regularly:
Hennessey, Red Bull, and Orange Juice
Can substitute apple juice for the OJ if you want. Tastes absolutely fucking delicious either way
best. topic. ever.
i’m surprised no one went with the classic vodka and tonic. 4 days later…
The T.O. : Jose Cuervo Reserva de la Familia shaken over ice with a shot of olive juice. In a rocks glass up with 3 large olives.
With the best tequila you’ve ever tasted it’s a primetime performer but it’s gonna leave a sour taste in your mouth and just like footballs thrown T.O.’s way over the middle in crunch time you’re gonna be hitting the floor from time to time.
I gotta go with Liquid Pecan Pie
2 parts dr pepper
1 part Weller’s Antique
White Man’s Burden
Vanilla Smirnoff
Vanilla Coke
Taste the guilt.
Maker’s Mark & Yoo Hoo
It’s called “The Menstown.”
Sounds gay, but isn’t.
There have been several mentions of different types of whiskey that I would refer to as training wheels quality (Crown, Makers, JD, etc) but none for the grand champion, BOOKER’S. Mixing with anything other than some ice would be considered a sin.
Not sure if this is taken, too much to read, but I doubt it.
Caribou Lou
Half bottle of bacardi 151 in a jug
One cup of Malibu
Fill the rest of the jug with pineapple juice
Thank you Tech N9ne…. gets you fucked up.
1. Sucker Punch – Drink the neck out of a Corona, and refill with Citrus Vodka (the name is appropriate).
2. Crown Royal & 1/2 water, 1/2 ginger (water takes the edge off the hangover).
serbian troubador
2 part captain
1 part kaluha
1 part baileys
4 parts root beer
@Stifler: Beer with a load in it.
Chambord margarita with a silver patron floater. When an establishment limits a particular drink at three per person, you know it’s special. If you have Z-Tejas in your area, make it happen.
late to the party my joint is still on the board: Jameson and ginger ale.
also, if you find a bartender that will actually serve someone a jersey turnpike (aka whatever is in the mats), that fucker should be beaten severely for disrespecting their duties – the idea is to get people drunk but not by being wretched. if you want to be mean be creative….
… like goldschlager/jack & cuervo = “mexican/kentucky gold” or the “fucked up computer monitor” which is made by spilling whiskey on your laptop (i’m guessing)
RIP MB
Colorado whiskey straight up. If you haven’t heard of it you better ask somebody….
RIP Michael Burkill d. 5/24/08 – you are loved and missed
I think I’ll close out the draft with a Jersey Turnpike, which is the contents of your bartender’s rag squeezed into a shotglass.
Transfusion (any decent bartender at a golf course will know)
or
Compton (40 of Old English 800, drink down to the bottom neck, fill vacated space with orange juice.)
My parents are from Cuba, they have most my extended family still there. On mother’s day, my Dad will make a phone call to my grandmother still on the island. But sometimes…my alcoholic uncle will pick-up the phone. Tio Alcolico invented a drink on the island that’s supposedly popular but I 100% doubt that:
“Las Estrellas” (translation, The Stars)
1/5 Rubbing Alcohol
4/5 Water
God, what a miserable country. Please lift the embargo before my uncle loses his eye sight.
In honor of Woody Boyd, Sam “Mayday” Malone, and the greatest beer drinker in history, Norm Peterson:
The Screaming Viking
2 oz vodka
1 oz dry vermouth
1 oz lime juice
1 celery stalk
1 spear cucumber (slightly bruised)
Optimus Prime:
2 oz Hpnotiq liqueur (Pour into glass first)
1 oz Gin
1 oz Rum
1 oz Patron Tequila
1 oz Vodka
Top off with some Grenadine
Good stuff
chambord and gingerale
Well, I’m waaaay late, but this draft could have gone on for three days and my drinks would have never been chosen.
1) Pisco and Coke. Preferably Capel brand pisco, but Alto del Carmen is acceptable. No Peruvian pisco, though, that stuff tastes like ass.
2) Santori whiskey and Coke. For relaxing times, make it Santori time.
snake bite: drop a shot of cuervo in a beer of your choice. the shot is topped off with tobasco sauce.
And since nobody has posted for over an hour, I’m going to cheat and make my second pick a Flaming Homer.
I can’t imagine anything good is left this late in the day (this is what happens when you spend your afternoon auditioning Thai prostitutes for a snuff film) so I’ll go with a Snowshoe, which is:
1 part Wild Turkey
1 part Peppermint Schnapps
Polish buffalo grass wodka–chilled and straight.
252
1 part wild turkey 101 proff
1 part bacardi 151
Don’t remember anything else the rest of the night.
I’ll take a “Why I Live in California”.
1 16 oz mug of Sierra Nevada
1 shot glass of Jameson
Drop shot glass in mug, garnish with a HEALTHY pinch of medicinal grade chiba.
Watch ballgame until 4th inning.
Nap.
The Skynyrd – Sweet Tea and Beam
Perfect for when you run out of Coke and haven’t moved on to the “just pour it in my fucking mouth” phase.
Hpnotiq and Redbull, only way to make hypnotiq tolerable
Grape Drank.
Sugar. Water. Purple.
Animal mother you bastard you stole my drink. However, a Red Death has Sambucca in it, which is the most godawful liquer on panet earth. The Red Devil is the one you’re tinking of.
I guess since all the good stuff has been taken, I’ll have to go wit the Italian Iced tea:
Bacardi Limon
Disaronno Amaretto
Cranberry juice.
Yes, it tastes very good. Yes, it’s extremely fruit, but I’m 300 commetns behind, and the good stuff has all been taken.
Pink gin:
Rocks glass, rocks, gin, dash bitters
Late and lazy as well so I’ll act an ass and draft a
Toronto (Its the Manhattan of the north don’t-cha-know, eh?)
Canadian whisky (correct spelling)
sweet vermouth
bitters
m cherry
dick joke
The Surfer on Acid, that is
Chamomiles
I doubt your grandmother would have been caught dead drinking that. Here’s to our family matriarchs being less pusstastic than their supposedly more masculine grand-offspring!
It’s a mark of how late I am that I’m forced to take Kahlua and hot chocolate with my first pick. Damn good for after-ski though.
i will also take a mac & water (macnaughton’s) – or Jameson & water. not because i’m a puss, but b/c it’s a tribute to my now passed grandfather.
Too lazy to read the list… My picks
Irish Carbomb (NO not a boilermaker)
if thats taken….
I’ll draft.
The Jedi Mind Trick
1 oz. Cinnamon Schnapps
1 oz. Baily’s Irish Cream
1 oz. Melon Liquor
and a splash of rum
Mix with ice and serve
@Rocco
Mixed together, taken as a shot. I gave it to the lead singer of a band in suburban Minneapolis during a break in his set, and instead of singing the words he just yelled “Lucky, what did you give me?” over and over again…
Westbrook,
My grandmother’s funeral was yesterday. In her honor I knocked back a shot of Jameson’s. (My younger sister and cousins, however, insisted on drinking for their toast some monstrosity called a “Surfer on Acid.” Kids today…)
Dammit.
Tequila and Squirt. The Latinos here love that shit. Now so do I.
Dr. Quim Snaggletaint, I hear you my friend. Those buckets take you to a whole other level of retarded.
Amaretto Sour. Makes the panties come off.
Or, if a man is drinking it — on.
@Lucky Like Little: Seig Heil!
@ottoman: Absinthe is hard to get…just little pricey…
So with that I’ll go with a Green Vesper
regular vesper except with absinthe and lime instead of kina lillet and lemon
My grandmother’s drink of choice was the Manhattan. At her funeral last month, we all had one in her honor at the luncheon. I took one sip and three inches of hair grew on my back. I would have drunken the rest of it, but I had to drive home. That day, I had a newfound respect for my grandmother, who’d drink about six or seven of them and still be coherent enough not to fuck up Thanksgiving dinner.
Aaanyway, my only pick of this draft is the Chuck Norris. It’s a shot of vodka with a Chuck Norris spinkick to the face as the chaser. It only takes one to put you on your ass.
When I was bartending and people said “surprise me” I’d make a Snotty Brat. Shot glass, one part Jim, one part Jack, one part Cuervo, one part Jager, poured in that order. Wow, the face they make when it first hits is just like a baby with a problem, then the Jager takes over and their sense of relief washes over their face, just like an infant.
And I started my shift with a Raging Bull: rocks glass, 1/2 Red Bull, 1/2 vodka
I have issues
Because I’m preposterously late to this draft (seriously WTF KSK, when big shit like this is going down you need to give people some advance notice), and because a CTL+F search didn’t turn up anyone as having drafted these drinks, and the fact that I’m about to head out for the long weekend, here’s three picks at once. The first two will cost you a bit at the bar, but they taste fantastic and will absolutely kick your ass.
Lucky Seven
1/2 shot each – sloe gin, triple sec, amaretto, southern comfort, skyy vodka, jack daniels, and bacardi 151
1 part each – orange juice, cranberry juice, lime juice
Spring Water
4-5 shots vodka, shaken over ice with one part each club soda and tonic, a splash of sprite, and a lemon twist
The last one is for the ladies – I’ve never encountered a woman who didn’t love this drink, and it will get you laid if you play your cards right
Hazelnut Martini – a vodka martini with a half-to-full shot of Frangelico.
double whiskey coke, no ice.
the finished product: http://flickr.com/photos/moacir/381267658/in/set-72157594520290260/
a magnum hurricane (something like 93 shots of 151) from patty obriens in memphis. 8 of us drank that thing in under a half hour. the people who ordered one at the table next to us nearly a half hour prior didnt even come close to finishing. http://flickr.com/photos/moacir/381266540/in/set-72157594520290260/
The Diver Down from Silky O’Sullivan’s in Memphis – a gallon of liquor, mixers, beer and wine, all served in an attractive yellow bucket
a tall Jameson 7 with a lemon, served by the hottest bartender I have ever seen in my life, not appropriately named Ginsy.
Um, where do I sign up for this “gin bucket”? It sounds tremendous.
Gin and tonic = my go-to wedding drink.
@UU and Man Bear Pig: Actually, MBP is correct. It’s a Black and Tan because Bass is English beer. The superior version, a pure Half and Half, is made with Guinness and Harp. And I’ll draft it now.
@twoeightnine
Your Skippy Get Naked was my Yank Me Crank Me…and we put two 2 liter Sprites in as well. I know–we were pansies.
Also, I can’t believe that that came off the board.
The “Fish in the barrel”
vodka+cranberry juice+rohypnol
Hey, nothing in the draft rules said I personally have to drink what I order.
@Lucky Like Little:
3 shots in a row, or all mixed together as a drink? Much interest from the friends on this one. Thank you kind sir.
Singapore Sling, and who ever suggested a Turkey Squirt should be prosecuted by the Wild Turkey Corporation. That’s just a travesty.
hendricks’s, a little bit of soda water, and a couple of ice cubes. the perfect drink.
Crunk Juice + Hennessey=memories of being a douchebag drunk in high school
/ crtl-F “lawnmower”
/ “Phrase not found”
Well then… the Lawnmower.
Vodka + wheatgrass. A favorite of Ron Howard.
Red Devil
1 1/2 oz vodka
1 1/2 oz peach schnapps
1 1/2 oz Southern Comfort® peach liqueur
1 1/2 oz sloe gin
2 oz triple sec
2 oz orange juice
1 splash grenadine syrup
Mix alcohols into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Add the juice and grenadine, and shake. Serve in a 10-12 oz. glass.
I had a few of these in NJ once…ONCE.
Liquid Cocaine. Not only is it a highly comical drink name to say at the bar…it tastes like fun.
1 shot Bacardi 151
1 shot Jaeger
1 shot Goldschlager
Also, if you are trying to be a gangster, the Incredible Hulk (equal parts Hipnotiq and Hennesey) is quite fun.
Also, if anyone has ever visited/attended University of Illinois in Champaign, the Ice Bomb is quite ridiculous and popular on “Bomb Night.”
2 oz UV® blue raspberry vodka
2 oz orange vodka
2 oz vodka
1 – 2 oz Sprite® soda
@ tech 9 – thats an adios motherfucker. which i already took :)
Mexican coffee (coffee + a splash of Kahlua) always is a good start to my morning
Amaretto Sour. Makes the panties come off.
The Alaskan Ice Tea
Make a Long Island without the coke, add blue curacao, more booze, and it’s blue!
The steal of the draft – the Third Reich!
- 1 shot Jagermeister
- 1 shot Rumplemintz
- 1 shot Goldschlager
My Jew friends love it!
Gin and sprite. Twist of lemon. Splash of pineapple juice. The nice thing about it is that the more you drink, the cheaper they get. You just have to tell the bartender to start replacing the Bombay Sapphire (and you ARE using Bombay Sapphire) with whatever cheap shit bathtub moonshine they call gin.
Talk about a steal …
Turkey Squirt.
1 part Wild Turkey.
1 part Squirt soda.
Drink it up!