The Official Cthul-ade Recipe
Created by wolven, comorbid, kyrael, and ryameros@gmail.com in 1999/2000.
tested and improved on over the years by raoin, cailement, photogirl630, unknownbinaries, and dozens (if not hundreds) of others. including Voltaire.
this is the brew which inspired the Cthul-ade t-shirt.
i dont have any pictures... i never think to use my camera.
RECIPE
TOOLS
* a mixing container bigger than 4 gallons
*a stirring implement you don’t mind staining red forever
*funnel (if needed)
*containers for the final product (if desired)
DRY
*1 canister of red cool-ade mix (cherry)
*1 canister of blue cool-ade mix (tropical punch)
*around a dozen packets of raspberry lemonade cool-ade flavor
*1 pound of granulated white sugar
WET
*750ml of smirnoff (or better) raspberry vodka
* 1.5l yago fruit sangria
* bottle of catdaddy
* bottle of raspberry lambic
*2L of regular mountain dew
*2L of mountain dew code red
*any remaining containers of cthul-ade from last year (the year before or the year before)
DIRECTIONS
1) pour the 4 liters of mountain dew into your mixing container first. you don’t want to put the dry ingredients in first because they'll end up stuck to the bottom as a sludge.
2) with the soda in the bottom, add in all of the dry ingredients. If you put in all the wet ingredients before doing the dry, you'll end up with a lot of fizz-over.
3) add in the rest of the wet ingredients. i should hasten to add that whatever this stuff touches, it will stain.
4) stir vigorously and ruthlessly with something you don’t mind staining permanently. we use a wooden spoon.
5) decant final mix into portable containers.
6) immediately wash out large primary container or it will be stained that color forever.
NOTES
1) There is a version of this drink where Jägermeister is added. this is on a to-taste basis, but i find that anything more than 375ml is going to over-power the rest of the mix. this version is called Call of Cthul-ade.
2) The use of catdaddy is a recent addition to the recipe. I find that using a bottle of catdaddy reduces the amount of sugar i need to use. You could leave it out entirely, but it's a very tasty addition. imo.
3) It is tradition to save cthul-ade from each batch to add to the next batch. our current batch is contiguous from 2002.
4) aged cthul-ade is drinkable! that being said, you shouldn’t leave this stuff to 'grow' at room-temperature. we keep ours refrigerated. it goes through stages, too, and i find that it tastes best at the nine-month mark. but that's just me.
5)if you cant find mountain dew code red, you can just use 4liters of regular mountain dew. one year we used a 2-liter of mountain dew Live Wire (the orange flavor).
6) pricing out all these ingredients, we can typically make it for around $7.15/liter (as of 2010).
7) don’t be afraid to change things, switch things, replace things. be flexible. be fearless. have fun!
questions/comments/concerns/praise/snark are welcome.
tested and improved on over the years by raoin, cailement, photogirl630, unknownbinaries, and dozens (if not hundreds) of others. including Voltaire.
this is the brew which inspired the Cthul-ade t-shirt.
i dont have any pictures... i never think to use my camera.
RECIPE
TOOLS
* a mixing container bigger than 4 gallons
*a stirring implement you don’t mind staining red forever
*funnel (if needed)
*containers for the final product (if desired)
DRY
*1 canister of red cool-ade mix (cherry)
*1 canister of blue cool-ade mix (tropical punch)
*around a dozen packets of raspberry lemonade cool-ade flavor
*1 pound of granulated white sugar
WET
*750ml of smirnoff (or better) raspberry vodka
* 1.5l yago fruit sangria
* bottle of catdaddy
* bottle of raspberry lambic
*2L of regular mountain dew
*2L of mountain dew code red
*any remaining containers of cthul-ade from last year (the year before or the year before)
DIRECTIONS
1) pour the 4 liters of mountain dew into your mixing container first. you don’t want to put the dry ingredients in first because they'll end up stuck to the bottom as a sludge.
2) with the soda in the bottom, add in all of the dry ingredients. If you put in all the wet ingredients before doing the dry, you'll end up with a lot of fizz-over.
3) add in the rest of the wet ingredients. i should hasten to add that whatever this stuff touches, it will stain.
4) stir vigorously and ruthlessly with something you don’t mind staining permanently. we use a wooden spoon.
5) decant final mix into portable containers.
6) immediately wash out large primary container or it will be stained that color forever.
NOTES
1) There is a version of this drink where Jägermeister is added. this is on a to-taste basis, but i find that anything more than 375ml is going to over-power the rest of the mix. this version is called Call of Cthul-ade.
2) The use of catdaddy is a recent addition to the recipe. I find that using a bottle of catdaddy reduces the amount of sugar i need to use. You could leave it out entirely, but it's a very tasty addition. imo.
3) It is tradition to save cthul-ade from each batch to add to the next batch. our current batch is contiguous from 2002.
4) aged cthul-ade is drinkable! that being said, you shouldn’t leave this stuff to 'grow' at room-temperature. we keep ours refrigerated. it goes through stages, too, and i find that it tastes best at the nine-month mark. but that's just me.
5)if you cant find mountain dew code red, you can just use 4liters of regular mountain dew. one year we used a 2-liter of mountain dew Live Wire (the orange flavor).
6) pricing out all these ingredients, we can typically make it for around $7.15/liter (as of 2010).
7) don’t be afraid to change things, switch things, replace things. be flexible. be fearless. have fun!
questions/comments/concerns/praise/snark are welcome.