These may have been a certain form of Maximum Cocktail, but what they would eventually inspire - Planter’s Punch, Fish House Punch, and the like -wouldn’t be. Running low on beer and wine, they tried to blend a batch of rum or arrack (or whatever local spirit they could find) along with citrus juice, sugar, and maybe tea and spices. To be clear, Maximum Cocktails are not merely punches.Ĭocktail historian David Wondrich, in his seminal 2010 book “ Punch,” traces the beginning of punches back to British sailors in India during the early 1600s. Sometimes, these Maximum Cocktails even offer pithy warnings (“Not for wimps” read the caveat emptor on the five-spirit Texas Tea also offered at Brother Jimmy’s) that are surely not legally binding. If you stumble across a Maximum Cocktail at a bar, they will often have rules for the minimum number of people necessary to be allowed to order them (eight was the number for Trash Can Punch) or the maximum amount a single person can consume (usually just one or two). They rarely employ fresh ingredients but instead sour mix, canned or bottled juices, and a lot of hotel ice machine-quality cubes. They sometimes combine numerous different types of spirits, including ones that are not usually meant to play with each other, like rum, gin, brandy, and white wine, as seen in Trader Vic’s Scorpion Bowl, an ur-Maximum Cocktail first unveiled in 1946. Maximum Cocktails, on the other hand, often employ Everclear or another grain alcohol.
“There are aromatic components and it’s garnished just like an individual cocktail. “ Cocktail Explosion is a complete cocktail,” explained The NoMad Bar’s beverage director Leo Robitschek at the time of its creation in 2014. These aren’t merely “large format,” as is the parlance for the premium punches, pre-batched group, and Cocktail Explosions offered by today’s higher-end bars - those can be enjoyable too, but they lack the transgressiveness necessary to be a Maximum Cocktail. What do I define as Maximum Cocktails? Any drink whose goal is to get a lot of alcohol into your system as quickly as possible, preferably on the cheap, without you noticing.
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