Blue Death

Okay. Four o'clock Pacific time, in Seattle, uh, wherever you are, it's past four o'clock, unless you're in Hawaii or something like that, and then it's earlier than four o'clock. But it's Friday and should probably start drinking anyhow. So, I gotta tell you guys, I'm a little giddy about today, about the Everclear thing. I made one of these again for myself last night, and it really is a good drink. But I had fun with this one, not only because it's probably one of the funnest drinks I've made in a while, just because of the sheer challenge of making something with Everclear that was great, it wasn't like a freaking jungle juice.

It was an actual drink, that was a fun challenge, so that was cool. But just some of the research I did on Everclear, because I really didn't know much about Everclear, you know, other than it's super potent. Uh, and you can't buy it in some states, so I did some research. One of the first things I came across, I'm just going to read you guys, I printed out and copied it. The dangers of drinking Everclear, I found this on the vertana Health website, formerly, uh, Addiction Campuses. So I guess this is for a bunch of, like, kids that are facing addiction. A whole deal on Everclear.

Uh, and so just one shot of Everclear could make a person sick and endanger their health in a very short amount of time. According to the manufacturers, Everclear is not meant to be consumed straight. Rather, it is considered an unfinished ingredient. I don't know if that means intended to be diluted or used to make alcohol of a lower proof. So you buy Everclear to make other types of alcohol, because it's so, like, it's so disgustingly potent.

I, I hurt myself laughing. This is fun. So I didn't, like I said, I didn't know much about the history of Everclear. So let's, you know, I dug up some History I've ever claimed, where does it come from, uh, Everclear is sold by Luxco, it's this company in Saint Louis. And it's a type of grain alcohol, distilled by these guys. It's 190 proof, and if you're a booze guy, you know what that means. For those folks that aren't booze guys, 190 proof means it's 95 alcohol by volume.

This bottle, see, 95 of this bottle So maybe what there is alcohol, I don't know what's in the other 5. I'm assuming water or something. I don't really know. But that's a lot of booze. So why, uh, the Luxco company decided to distill this, I have no clue.

Uh, nobody knows the exact recipe of Everclear. It's a highly guarded secret by Luxco that was trademarked and patented in the 1950s. Corn is the main ingredient. The corn is the main ingredient of a lot of alcohols. Corn is the main ingredient of bourbons, not necessarily all whiskeys, but bourbons, definitely corn's the main ingredients. Vodkas, there's corn, there's, uh, sugar, there's potato, vodkas, there's all kinds of different vodkas. So Everclear's main vice is corn, right?

A lot of states have banned Everclear because of the high proof, because of that, uh, Luxco came out with a version of Everclear that wasn't 95 alcohol by volume. It was only 75.5 alcohol by volume, or 151 proof. So there are two versions of Everclear, there's the straight up gasoline, 190 proof, there is the gasoline tasting 151 proof version of Everclear, that if you can't get the 190 proof version in your state, try for the 151 version.

Uh, so god bless this country. By comparison, just to let you guys know, most alcohols, most stuff we've been mixing are anywhere between 80 proof and 100 proof, and that's 40 alcohol by volume to 50 alcohol by volume, so in the normal stuff We drink, like, half of this is actual alcohol, the other half is depends on what it is, right? But a lot of it's water, right? Some could be botanicals, could be other stuff, right? Everclear, two, two flavors, either got seventy five percent of that bottle is total alcohol, or ninety five percent of that bottle is total alcohol. So this is the booziest thing we've done yet. So I, I get kind of giddy about that. It just makes me happy.

Also, many of you know the band Everclear, love those guys, really big in the 90s, kind of came out of a lot of the band members actually came out of the Portland, Oregon area. The lead guitarist actually went to high school with my wife, which is kind of cool, their friends on Facebook. So I think that's a neat little thing. But they were, they obviously named themselves after this, right? This is what they named themselves after. And the front man, Alex, Alexis, I, I got a quote from him that he did an interview with, uh, discovering alcoholic, which is, you know, for, or sorry, sorry, discovering alco, yeah, discovering alcoholic, which is obviously a site for recovering alcoholics, right.

And Alexis said that the name came about because of the misleading nature of this clear liquid that looked harmless, looked like water, right? It does, it's totally clear, looked like water, it was actually, and I quote, pure white evil. So that's where the band Everclear got its name from, this. Right? So I just think it's funny. Everclear is one of those things that I would never buy if someone didn't dare me to do it, then they did, and so I bought it and here we are today.

But, like I said, I'm super excited, I'm kind of giddy about this week because I think it's going to be super fun and this is actually a good drink, so with all of that you know, preface and stuff, the, the pomp and circumstance and the history around Everclear and the mysterious nature of what's actually in it, let's just drink it. So we're gonna break a couple of our rules this week, actually no, we'll just break one, I'll just, so one of my rules is if you haven't tried this stuff straight, and I've tried all this stuff, you should try it now. Everclear is almost odorless, right? It's got a like it smells kind of like a really really clean vodka which really doesn't have a lot of odor, right.

But the taste is also pretty distinctive, right, and if you've never tasted the stuff just straight, you shouldn't, because this is not something you want to mess around with, but I'm going to try just a little bit. Holy [bleep] balls, Batman, yeah. Oh, no. You know how I talk about bourbons and gins and how they've got, like, nice taste and flavors and botanicals and this, that, yeah.

There's pretty much no redeeming value for drinking that straight, it's like somebody put a flaming match down my throat and it exploded in my stomach. So this is not what I recommend you Drink straight, and every claire's not meant to be drank straight, it's not good. But this drink is amazing, so the rule I'm gonna violate this week, though, is typically I always say every drink we make has two shots of booze in it, we're not going to put two shots of Everclear in here.

We're going to come close, we're going to do one and a half shots and we are going to do some blue Carasso so we're kind of going over two shots anyway. But the primary liquor, we're not doing Two shots of ever clearing here now. This is one of those drinks that you can probably tweak a little bit to your own taste, but we're going to make it my way first and we'll talk about the different fairy, so four things that we're going to need. Right, the first one. You need rocket fuel, get your Everclear.

Okay, the next thing, some blue curaçao. Carrasso, caraso, curacao. I don't know, this blue stuff. We're gonna need the homemade pomegranate. Or, the, the homemade grenadine, sorry, which is, this is just like pomegranate simple syrup. Or simple syrup, we use this the other week when we made the sea breeze, right. The sea breezes, and then some lemonade.

And I've got Paul Newman's own virgin lemonade, mmm. Yummy, it's virgin, okay. This is a shake and drink, it actually is is for a day like today, like if you're around the Seattle area, it's like 88 degrees. If you're on the other side of the mountains, it's probably even hotter. Summer seems to be in full effect, this is actually really good summer drink, oddly enough. Even despite its rocket fuel like nature.

So we're going to shake this, we're going to get a high ball glass, if you've got a big martini glass, this would be perfect, but there's a lot of liquid in here. Right, so first thing we're going to do is we're going to take the Everclear. Okay, and we're going to put one and a half shots of Everclear. One and a half ounces, sorry, I've ever. cleared and our shaker, okay, so we've got one and a half ounces of that.

We're going to take the blue curaçao, we're going to put an ounce of this in our shaker. Okay. We're now going to use our homemade grenadine, right, this, our pomegranate simple syrup, and we're going to put a half of an ounce of this in here.

There we go. And then we're going to add our lemonade, we're going to use three ounces of lemonade. Okay, so we've got one and a half ounces of Everclear, one ounce of blue curaçao, a half of an ounce of our homemade grenadine, it's just pomegranate simple syrup, and three ounces of lemonade, okay, put all that in a shaker.

Okay, now we're going to put a bunch of Ice and shaker, tons of ice. Okay, got a bunch of ice in the shaker. Okay, one thing we're going to do, so let's shake this super nice and cool. Look at that, that's like frozen. Okay, the last thing is the garnish, right, and what I like to do is I like to take a strawberry, you could use blueberries, but I like the strawberry. I'm gonna take a strawberry, I'm gonna cut it in half.

Okay, I'm gonna put that in my glass and now I'm gonna dump my drink Insect glass, and look at that bad boy. that is why I call it Blue Death. It's an absolutely pretty drink, like it is a very pretty drink, right. Nice blue color, let's see, see the kind of okay, there we go, the red strawberry kind of showing up on the top there.

It's a super pretty drink, right, but it's an Everclear drink, so be careful. So now you got this bad boy and you gotta drink it, a little little strawberry leaf, and it's a really good drink, like surprisingly good. I haven't made this for anybody that does not like it yet, everyone that I've made it for has gone in with full knowledge that it's an Everclear drink.

So I usually only make one of them for somebody, I drink multiples because first of all I'm just a bigger guy, second of all I've got a tolerance especially after the last freaking six months. But this is an amazing drink, you have to be careful. Like it's such a good drink, like it, it's it's the, the, adds that orange flavor, right, you mix that with the pomegranate.

Okay, there's a lot of sugar there and a nice kind of a tart lemonade, and that's your foundation, right. The Everclear. It doesn't really have a lot of native taste that's, that's going to disrupt the drink. Other than just the alcohol taste, and that's why I, only use an ounce and a half. You could up at the two ounces it would probably be okay because this drink actually does have a lot of sugar, right? I mean, we've got the blue curaçao, we've got the pomegranate, simple syrup, our homemade grenadine, we've got lemonade, so there's a lot of sugar in this drink, so you could probably easily add two ounces, I'm just, it's stupid just to say you could probably add two ounces of Everclear to this, and it's probably fine. The other thing is is, you could probably back off the lemonade.

It might be too sweet for some people, so what I'd suggest is back off the lemonade a little bit if it's a little too sweet for you, or maybe go to maybe a quarter of an ounce of that homemade grenadine, so don't use a half an ounce, use a quarter of an ounce. But this drink is money, like it's a really good tasting drink, and that, my friends, is the problem with Blue Death here, because it is a really good tasting drink. And if you don't watch yourself, you'll end up ass over tea kettle.

You know, I posted about an hour ago, like these 10 facts about Everclear, I got some college site drinking site which are freaking hysterical. One of them is, the very last one is like your 10 tips for drinking Everclear, and the last one is, Everclear will always kick your ass. So please be careful with this drink, but it is a good drink, it's a very tasty drink, it's very oddly enough, even with the sugar it's super light, I think maybe the Everclear itself, the, all the alcohol, you know, maybe eats the sugar.

I know the alcohol's just sugar anyway, but from a tasting perspective, it's a super tasty drink, so Blue Death, super easy to make. Get your Everclear, if you can get your you know, super liquid alcohol at 190 proof. If it's not available in your state, chances are that they're going to have the 151 proof stuff in your state, which is ridiculous.

This is, Everclear is not something you want to drink straight unless you're already freaking hammered, and then you just stupid, like that's just asking for an ass kicking right there, I mean you're just dumb. This drink is the first good juice of Everclear I think I may have ever come across, right. And I kind of had the idea from a blue Hawaiian, which is where the blue carasso came from and then the color the, with the pomegranate just made it absolutely amazing, so this drink, super good.

Under strawberry, that's good. I can't remind everyone who made like jungle juice in college, all that fruit in there, you eat the food and get hammered. I could see myself taking strawberries and soaking them for like a day in vodka and making this drink. I like just to put the piece that resistance in this bad boy, because this is, we don't have by volume and a lot of alcohol in here, but we've got the hardest core alcohol in here that you can possibly buy.

In fact, so Everclear is actually in the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest ABV, alcohol by volume, alcohol produced in the US. There's in fact only one other liquor in the entire world that claims that they have a higher ABV, and that is a vodka out of Poland called Spratus, and they claim they've got a 96 percent ABV, 75 ABV, ah, I'm sorry, my words already.

Holy crap, this drink is awesome, I love this drink. So Blue Death, it's probably one of the best, and it's probably one of the best drinks I've I've made in a long time, I'm super boastful and super proud of this drink because I invented it, I made it from scratch, I made it from scratch because everyone in my house was gone, I had a sunburn.

Christensen dared me to do it, and I was in a lot of pain, I'm, I'm like, okay, let's make an Everclear drink and from the sun, you know, oh I can't even speak coherently now. The point is, it's a good drink, it's an Everclear drink. I think you will all like it, quite a bit. I probably should have eaten like breakfast or lunch today. Like something, a meal today would have been good.

This is not something you want to drink on an empty stomach. Don't fall in my lead, please, but this is freaking an awesome drink. Blue Death, it's great, one and a half ounces of Everclear, one ounce of blue curaçao, a half an ounce of our homemade grenadine, which is just pomegranate simple syrup, right, so equal parts pomegranate, what do you call it, juice and sugar, and then three ounces of lemonade.

And it's good, you guys are gonna like this, right? This is actually worth going to the liquor store and purchasing your 20 bottle of Everclear, whether it's 151 or 190 proof. This drink is good, and I, I need to go now because I'm, I'm feeling it, which is stupid because I shouldn't be, but I am. It's a great drink, I love this drink, so it's super good, super tasty.

It's a good summer drink, but be careful. Please be careful with this drink, but it is good. Oh my god, it's good, I'm gonna make another one and get hammered. This is a great drink, it's really good. So, blue death. Be careful, super tasty. Yeah, it's good. I, next week we'll make something, I don't know what it's going to be. We'll figure it out sometime during the week, I'll post the instructions like I always do.

Whatever, we'll get there. The t-shirt's awesome, I'm gonna make another one, I'm gonna sit down and like, I don't know, watch the world burn, but I hope you guys at least try one, it's good. And if you just have Everclear in your liquor cabinet, for the just occasional drink you should have it, and this is the occasional drink you should have. I think I'm crying a little bit.

My wife is gonna hate me tonight, take care guys. Next week we'll have, we'll do something, crap, I don't know what it's gonna be. But I'll post the [bleep] on like Wednesday or so, like I always do, we'll figure it out. Try this drink, in a group, maybe split it. I don't know, but be careful with the drink, period.

But like I said, blue death, one and a half ounces of Everclear, one ounce of blue curaçao, a half an ounce of your homemade grenadine, and three three ounces of lemonade, okay. Easy drink, super good, I'm sweating. I will see you guys next week, cheers.