So, earlier this evening, I was sitting around the house, and it occurred to me that it would be nice to have a cool, refreshing drink. On hot days like this, I generally gravitate toward the gin and tonic, but today I felt like something different. And, after spending a few minutes fruitlessly looking around Google for a good summer drink recipe, I decided to put something up on Facebook. My hope was that maybe one or two friends would suggest drinks fitting my criteria – easy to drink, not too sweet, refreshing on hot day, and possibly containing fruit/berries – but the response was much larger than I had anticipated. At last count, I think there were about 24 suggestions. And it got me wondering if perhaps it might be possible to attempt them all (a lot of them sound really good) in some limited period of time. And it may be a terrible idea – please tell me if it is – but I had this thought that I could maybe get others involved too. The idea would be to recruit a group of 24 people (or teams), each willing to take on one of the drinks, and then get together to exchange beverages at a rate of about one per hour. (I’m envisioning an event running 10:00 to 10:00 on a Saturday and Sunday.) Anyway, I thought that I’d throw it out there and see if anyone found the idea interesting enough to pursue… And, we wouldn’t have to call it the Ypsi Mega Puke, but I thought that it had a nice ring to it. (I think the pukage could be kept to a minimum if we were to keep drinks relatively small, and cluster them in such a way that we weren’t always jumping back and forth between different types of alcohol. If we wanted, we could even travel on foot to a different location for each round.)
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Here’s the Facebook thread.
Just stop. You had me at “mega puke”.
Just please not weekend of August 14-15 as I will be seeing my best friends from high school for the first time in 20 years!
(J/k, don’t base it on me but I would like to be there :))
No one gave the actual recipe for the Ypsi Fizz. Do tell. Unless it’s on a need to know basis…
Don’t forget the Bitch Awesome with stones!
It should be held on the bridge between downtown and Depot Town, and instead of happening over 24 hours, it should happen over 24 minutes. And people, if they have to puke, should do so into the river. It would be beautiful. Like a rainbow.
I don’t use the facebook, but my favorite cocktail lately has been scotch, lime, and good ginger ale.
I use a blended scotch, like cutty sark.
It is my duty to participate in this
Count me in!
I like Singapore Slings. The recipe has a lot of ingredients, but you just have to measure them and mix them up. The result is certainly easy to drink, it has a pineapple-cherry flavor with medicinal notes from the gin, bitters, and Benedictine
8 parts Gin (I like Tanqueray 10 or Bluecoat, if you can get it. Or use your favorite (Bombay Sapphire?))
4 parts Heering Cherry Liqueur (Kirsch can be used)
1 part Cointreau
1 part Benedictine liqueur (not B&B)
16 parts pineapple juice
6 parts lemon juice (you’re supposed to use fresh squeezed, I find ReaLemon OK)
2 parts Grenedine
Bitters
For a single serving, use 1 part=1 tsp and 1 dash of bitters. I usually mix up a pitcher with 1 part=1 oz and 6 dashes of bitters. Serve over ice and garnish with maraschino cherry and fresh pineapple, if desired. I’m usually too lazy to deal with the garnish after the first one.
If you have a gallon-sized container and a bunch of friends, you can mix up a batch with 1 part=3 oz (18 dashes bitters). You can use a standard 46 oz can of pineapple juice only rather than open another container for 2 more oz.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_Sling
http://www.bluecoatgin.com/
This is the first thing that comes up when one Googles “megapuke.”
Did anything ever come of this?
WE MUST DOz THIS iN 2011!!!!
There aren’t as many bars in Ypsi now as there once were. And people don’t have as much money these days. Maybe we should just all meet in the park with a couple 40s each.
Must do this.
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