Quick, I need an easy summer cocktail in a pitcher. Suggestions?

[luvmysuper]

If the ability of the guests being able to walk after the party is not important, I suggest Mojo.

In a large pitcher, mix

• 1 pint rum
• 1 pint cherry brandy
• 1 (12-ounce) beer
• 1 (12-ounce) Coke
• 1 (12-ounce) 7-Up
• 1 (12 ounce) Orange soda
• 12 ounces pineapple juice
• Top off with crushed ice.

 

[AshleyC]

[stares at screen in incomprehension]

When did beer become incompatible with a pitcher? Was there some sort of breakthrough with DARPA?

 

[EdHeart]

Yep. Pretty much. Those were the days. We were also known to mix iced tea and beer too.

Sadly, my drinking buddy from back then (a college friend) ended up drinking himself to death four years ago. We parted ways a little more than 25 years ago when I got married, and he kept drinking. Oh the stories I could tell. One centered around a case of cheap beer and Mozart's Marriage of Figaro...

Indeed I'm sorry for the loss of your friend. And I can relate, have some college war stories myself, though possibly none involving the Mariage of Figaro... I'm intrigued and most curious...

 

[sternej]

Easy would be go to Costco, buy their organic Strawberry Lemonade, go over to the liqupr aisle and get seme Kirkland Vodka (very highly rated sauce), mix accordingly. Delicuous

 

[Phoenixkh]

So... how did it go, @Tanuki ? I hope it was a success....

 

[Hercule]

Indeed I'm sorry for the loss of your friend. And I can relate, have some college war stories myself, though possibly none involving the Mariage of Figaro... I'm intrigued and most curious...

We graduated from conservatory so were music nerds. Brass players, which may explain the drinking. But I digress. It was fun playing "drop the needle" drunk. For those who don't know or understand that is trying to identify a piece of music by playing a short clip from any part of a recording, by "dropping the needle" as it were. We were quite invincible at it, mind you, even drunk.

 

[EdHeart]

We graduated from conservatory so were music nerds. Brass players, which may explain the drinking. But I digress. It was fun playing "drop the needle" drunk. For those who don't know or understand that is trying to identify a piece of music by playing a short clip from any part of a recording, by "dropping the needle" as it were. We were quite invincible at it, mind you, even drunk.

Drop the needle sounds like it would be a good deal of fun: but man you'd really need to know your music. I don't.

In Jr. High, I was first trumpet 2nd chair. My best friend was first first. He could play the horn. We'd play some Bach and our favorite was the 1812 Overture. The school's music room/locker had the full original version. It turned out the Bostom Pops played this score. We'd practice along with the record. Mark and I begged our band teacher (we had some really outstandingly talented kids playing at the time) to play the entire score. We finally got him to allow the band to sight read the last movement, the finale. It wasn't quite a train wreck, Mark and I were the only ones to finish the page, but we'd been practicing. He wouldn't entertain anything beyond that one try. I KNOW we, the band could have done a very credible playing of the full piece and certainly could have done exceptionally well with the finale. I don't think he wanted us to even try.

 

[Hercule]

The 1812, being so over blown in nature, tends to be an endurance issue as its usually programmed last on concerts.

When Ben Franklin's son was under arrest as a tory sympathiser, he gse to lounge on the banks of the Podunk river (yes its an actual river and the Podunk Indians were an actual tribe) drinking what was known as a "Great Contradiction": something weak (water), something strong (rum), something sour (lemon), and something sweet (sugar). Sounds refreshing actually.

 

[Tanuki]

So... how did it go, @Tanuki ? I hope it was a success....

It was a big production and a big success.

Everyone was greeted with the Pimm's cocktail; extra Pimm's, ginger ale/lemonade available for topping up

Appetizer: cheese and fruit plate, in the living room

Dinner inside:
filet mignon, grass fed yearling steer (from a rancher friend of my youth)
broccolini
tiny potatoes, quartered and garlic roasted
wine

Desert on the back patio:
mango tiramisu parfait

The LOTH made the filets herself from the tenderloin. She had never broiled filet mignon before, but they were perfectly, shading to the medium end of rare.

That beef is outstanding, though the cuts from a yearling run small. The tenderloin melts in the mouth.

The tiramisu parfaits were made from the ground up, except the lady fingers. Presented in family heirloom crystal parfait glasses.

 

[Phoenixkh]

It was a big production and a big success.

Everyone was greeted with the Pimm's cocktail; extra Pimm's, ginger ale/lemonade available for topping up

Appetizer: cheese and fruit plate, in the living room

Dinner inside:
filet mignon, grass fed yearling steer (from a rancher friend of my youth)
broccolini
tiny potatoes, quartered and garlic roasted
wine

Desert on the back patio:
mango tiramisu parfait

The LOTH made the filets herself from the tenderloin. She had never broiled filet mignon before, but they were perfectly, shading to the medium end of rare.

That beef is outstanding, though the cuts from a yearling run small. The tenderloin melts in the mouth.

The tiramisu parfaits were made from the ground up, except the lady fingers. Presented in family heirloom crystal parfait glasses.

Congrats, John.. The spread sounds lovely, indeed.

 

[Hercule]

Mango tiramisu??!!!!! Likely very nice, however I haven't had enough tiramisu during my lifetime to venture away from the original.

 

[Old Hippie]

Sounds like a heckuva do! I am forced to agree that a couple 5-gallon buckets of ice with multiple bottles of Jack Daniel's in them would not have cast the needful mood. But I'm sure things woulda cheered up eventually.

We get what's called "Junior Beef" from a local ranch. They've got some Swiss breed of monster cattle. They send them up into the high country first thing in the spring and the calves spend the summer on grasses and forbs and Mom's milk and come down the hill in fall almost 1,000 pounds. Nutritional profile on the meat scans out better than wild salmon. Tender and very lean. We get a quarter every year.

O.H.

 

[Quaznoid]

Anything Pimm’s.