Speedball (Drink)
 

I'm not talking about the hard drugs cocktail. my friend is trying to get the word out on this drink so he wamts me on to share with you all a pretty good mixer (it's a little bit redkneck but oh well).

Take 1 can Redbull Energy Drink

Empty roughly 1/4 of the liquid.

Pour Coconut rum (or alcohol of choice) directly into the can until you reach near the top.

Give it a good twirl.

You've got a speedball - the redbull and the rum counteract each other and it's a pretty sweet pseudo-high. It tastes good, there is the slight after taste of Flintstones tablets (like when you drink redbull) but beyond that it's a perfectly enjoyable drink.

*Checks ID*

Interesting. Not really a fan of rum myself, but I'll give it a try next time I run into a bit of cash.

If we're talking cocktails, I'm more a fan of this one;

blended malt whiskey (2 shots) + sweet vermouth (1 shot) + dry vermouth (1 shot)

Stick a slice of lemon in it and you've got the cheap equivalent of a perfect Manhattan. I usually start feeling it after two or three, so it's pretty stuff.

Oh, and anyone under the legal drinking age, don't try this at home :D

I've had too many Vodka & Redbulls to ever consider using an energy drink in an alcoholic scenario ever again. Ugh.... Worst hangover in existence.

But, in the interest of contributing to the creativity, Back when I was in the military a friend and I came up with a nifty tasting beverage that will have you retching in thought of it, but converted by the taste.

1 ice cold can of MUG rootbeer soda (or equivalent creamy rootbeer soda,) Poured into a large chilled mug (Or just one part, if not using the whole can)
1-third-part ice cold Jagermeister
1 splash of Grenadine
Ice
STIRRED, not shaken.


If you have mixed it correctly, your drink will now taste like an ice-cream rootbeer float. The Jagermeister is somehow... undisgustingized when mixed with the rootbeer, and actually adds to the flavor in a positive way. The Grenadine adds a bit of cherry flavor, the ice does what ice does, and you get nice and tipsy after a couple of these because this thing drinks like dessert.

It's thick enough for a man.. tasty enough for a woman... and you should probably keep this far, far away from your children.

Sounds pretty tastey.

Stir with tampon.

Rather pointless when they hit wetness they absorb...
But....you wouldn't know that...

Are you implying it's a sissy drink?

I think so.
It's a joke, but if you really dissect the concept, it's completely wrong.

Guys drink rootbeer when they're not drinking regular beer, right? I mean... no guy drinking a Mug rootbeer would be jumped in the streets for not being man enough to drink a Sprite, or a Coca-Cola. Then, you take your rootbeer, and add alcohol to it, Jager to boot? Sounds like extra manliness to me... as long as it isn't Pucker. There is no justification for that.

Totally agreed. Although I am pretty much a pussy when it comes to the juice. Speaking of, i've never had Jagermeister.

Jagermeister tastes like the nasty dark green Nyquil. TIMES ONE BILLION.

Nyquill... now there's the drink of my generation.

I don't want to ruin it for you, but it's a cabbage liquor!?

Is that a question?

I always thought Jager tasted like black liquorice.

Not quite sure what you mean by cabbage liquor. You might want to expand on that for us non-Einsteins.

That it does. Licorice flavor all the way. I don't really know what they make it out of though, besides licorice root or whatever, who knows, but I sure do know it tastes like licorice. Worst flavor ever. My dad tried to get me to eat that nasty ass black licorice candy when I was a kid... What a shitty day... I felt like a kid being fed mop strings and being told it was spaghetti. He loved the stuff. I can't understand how someone's taste buds could be that misguided.

I love black licorice! It's a gentlemen's food, like Oysters or Caviar.

So you like it not because of its pleasant flavor, but because of its status?

I dunno man... I firmly hold the belief that if you have to get used to a flavor before you enjoy it, it's not naturally good. All you're doing is sorta acclimating to disgustingness until you reach a point where you're actually able to tell yourself that you enjoy it. Like preferring the flavor of diet coke over regular coke (if you like coke). No one likes diet coke the first time they taste it. And there's a reason for it... it tastes like shit. But you eat shit long enough, it won't taste so bad I guess.

Anyway, I guess there may be some people who like licorice right off the bat... but it's not many, I think. It's gotta be some kind of screw up in the human genome or something. I'm pretty sure if people starting liking the flavor of diesel, you'd go along with me on that.

I was always the weird kid who liked it :D. I have a notoriously open-stomach when it comes to food.

Have you tasted shit?

Someone told me Jägermeister comes from cabbage and I believed him. It is a liqueur that's made with 56 differnt herbs and spices (some sources say roots, fruits, & blosoms). Just like Moonshine is made from corn mash I thought the alcohol that's added with herbs & spices was made from cabbage. Whether the alcohol that it's made with comes from cabbage, I'm not a 100% certain, I did trying to find a source online to verify what I said. I know Vodka is a drink that could be made from potatoes (or grain), so it seems plausible, because it comes from Germany it made sense it to me it would be made from cabbage. I don't mind the 56 herbs and spices, but it's the thought that it comes from cabbage makes me queasy thinking about it.

It's true. Blech. Only way I can drink it is mixed with ALOT of Red Bull.

I've had IHOP at night.

Yeah, Jager's a bit skanky. Red bull makes it even worse for me, but I despise red bull so that's just me. Sambuca tastes more like something I'd actually want to drink, and it's got basically the same kick to it that a shot of Jager does.

I see.
Yea I got curious and looked it up but the sources I find doesn't say anything about cabbage. In fact, I can't find any sources hinting to exactly what kind of alcohol Jagermeister is processed with, but just that they add the roots, spices and all that other stuff to it and do a filtering process, etc.

I can't find much in the way of any cabbage fermenting process that any alcohol relies on either.

I'm so waiting for Sam Adams to make a seasonal 'Cabbage Ale'. I swear those guys will brew anything.

Yeah, I was kidding, but where's the booze! I love hearing other peoples opinions on Jager, as its one of my favorites. I don't know how it works, but mixes miraculously with some odd drinks. I love the red bull or root beer mix, or even just on the rocks. Unlike Vodka and Tequila, I can put down a fifth, maintain enough coherence to get my groove on, and not turn into a raging testosterone beast of fury. That makes for one hell of a drink.

Sadly, out of a billion flavors, I can only find myself getting into the Cherry Wheat.