My wife now knows not to insist on pure cranberry juice, but rather to request a 100% juice blend and not “cocktail” (the cocktail is what the juice blend goes in). I finished the battery acid myself over the course of a few weeks, out of pure Floridaman cussedness. It was not pleasant.
Just cut it with equal parts vodka and ice.
That is the exact use case for which it was an abysmal failure.
You gotta put in enough vodka to cover the cranberry taste. Strongly recommend a 2 drink limit on those.
After a couple I don’t taste shit anyways.
I remember finding out all that “Cranberry Cocktail” I used to drink had barely any actual cranberry juice in it. I felt ripped off! I want CRANBERRY! Not apple or grape. I then went out and found this pure 100% cranberry juice, feeling very victorious, ready to go home and enjoy some real tart goodness. I poured it in a glass of ice cubes, took a big swig, and OH DEAR GOD I was filled with immediate and complete regret. I had never experienced something quite so dry and bitter. My body completely rejected it.
Eventually ended up mixing just a little bit at a time with some lemonade, and it was pretty good :)
If you want a real shock, start adding sugar and keep track of how much you have to add to make it palatable. It’s basically like drinking soda.
Uh, none? Ice cubes (if it’s ice cold, it’s fantastic) for daytime, ice cubes and vodka if I have an occasion to drink
Everyone that has tried 100% cran.
It should be sold in chemical supply houses, or maybe restaurant supply houses, but at any rate, it needs to come in a white bottle with black letters and be sold from something called a “supply house.”
It turns out there’s a newer category that still does the apple and white grape juice, but only that, not the high fructose corn syrup and water from Cranberry Juice Cocktail. I believe the blend is done to skew it more cranberryish as well. That’s apparently what my wife was thinking of.
Well now I want to try 100% cranberry juice. I can drink it while picking cranberries in Stardew Valley.
HA! I imagine your session might get a lot less “cozy”. Good luck, brave one!
You pick your own fruit in stardew?
I went through this PRECISE experience.
Ice. You need ice.
Edit the universe tells me I also need vodka
You just mix this with water to get what you want. It’s much cheaper than the sugary cocktail crap that’s mostly apple juice anyway.
If it’s not sweet enough, you can add sugar.
I kept looking for pure cranberry juice and could never find it. Always blended stuff. Finally found it and quickly found out why it’s always blended.
Seriously though you get used it and I think it tastes pretty good now. It’s certainly out of place in our everything-is-sweetened food industry though.
I love pure cranberry juice actually. I mean I live in Germany so I cannot drink pure juice anyway, that would be insanity, it has to be at least 50% mixed with sparkling water. And cranberry juice is ideal for a lower juice content spritz when it is hot outside and you’re sick of drinking Apfelschorle.
I mean, water is a solvant, quite often used in industrial applications…
Technically correct. As the internet has known for decades, this is the best kind.
I should try this, I feel like it’s not as bad as you guys all make it sound
It’s really not lol. You can tell in this thread those who do a bunch of sugar and those who don’t
It’s drier than I enjoy my wine, but it’s not undrinkable or anything. I would dilute it, just because I would assume that it already has a lot of sugar.
Though my uncle worked auditing cranberry bogs for the MA government (I now realize this might have been kid logic- he did something with cranberries as a state employee, I don’t know exactly what), so I grew up eating cranberries in all their forms.
My wife loves tart cherry juice. The good stuff. So I kind of know what you mean
Tart cherry juice is great. Easily drink it straight.
I’ll add water to cranberry juice though.
Uh, which good stuff I do not know my cherry juices
Given the title and being a plastic bottle, I was expecting:
Ahh, El Diablo’s kool-aid…
Sure does smell nice on floors, though.
If you’ve got a UTI, it’s fantastic until you can get antibiotics. I don’t know why anyone would otherwise choose to drink it.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7824375/
Just drinking a lot of water is the best non-antibiotic treatment. Cranberry juice does not significantly impact an active UTI infection. Other much smaller studies indicate that it may be helpful, but the more robust studies show no real help.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29046404/
Other studies do show that cranberry juice can help reduce future UTI occurances though.
My ex had several UTIs and she said the cranberry helped the pain more than anything.
My wife also swears by it, but I’m curious if objective testing might reveal if it’s actually relieving pain, or if the act of drinking this stuff is temporarily raising one’s pain tolerance to the degree that the UTI pain doesn’t seem so bad.
why anyone would otherwise choose to drink it.
Mix in powdered magic mushrooms. Works like lemontek to make the trip shorter and more intense, and masks the difficult-to-get-down flavour.
You can also take cranberry pills for the uti. We tried this route for my sil’s uti. Whoopsie poopsie it turned out to be the beetus and we made it worse.
If you know your pancreas is healthy, go for it but those Rx uti pills are cheap and effective if you get them on the reg
I love that stuff, but yeah for sure it’s a real punch in the salivary glands.
I like it mixed with bubbly water.
On the plus side, after they combine, you can poop twice as efficiently because it’ll burn you an extra butthole, LOL.
More seriously, at what ratio? The running theme here seems to be that it should be nowhere near the top of an ingredients list.
10-20% total max.
Equal parts vodka and juice, top with bubbly water, so about an ounce or two.
You really REALLY love cranberries to be able to drink this straight. I eat raw cranberries so I love it but its bitter AF
Dude okay you got me beat. I make the cranberries at the appropriate holiday meals every year. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCKING FUCK the last other person in the family who loved cran died last year. I am going to have to start making less than a gallon.
I can fix this, invite me over.
And I’m a totally different beast, from Mass. I went to the bogs to get the freshest of the fresh cranberries in season. Also was there for King Richards Faire
/RIP Delores, you passed away too young.
no, you invite ME over. I want to meet a real bogbeast in their native environment. also come on over we’ll do tacos.
That’s a mixer, not a shooter
Any liquid’s a shooter if you shoot it.
By that logic you could have a “shot” of straight vodka!
I mean - you can see how that’d be crazy, right.
Or if it shoots you. Eh? Think about it.
At least once!
lol I remember the first time I tried pure cranberry juice
Im not wild paying cranberry prices for apple so I prefer pure cranberry and cherry. I do blend them myself though more than drink them straight.
