5 Crazy Bloody Marys to Cure Your Horrible Hangover

When it comes to choosing a mass-market tomato juice for bloodies, it's basically either V-8 or Clamato. You can like both, of course, but you should really pick a side.

I've always preferred V-8's salty viscosity over Clamato's more quaffable lightness, though both make a fine bloody in a pinch. V-8 is kind of like the A-1 steak sauce of supermarket-stocked vegetable drinks; even if it's not the best mary mixer out there, it's still pretty damn good.

V-8 has seized upon its alpha juice status by launching a website called the Bloody Mary Society, which assembles bloodies inspired by cities around the country. Most are considerably more labor-intensive than merely adding a shot of vodka to your V-8 on ice and augmenting with worcestershire, black pepper and/or horseradish.

That'll do just fine, but these five freaky bloodies are for adventurous types who want to kick it up a notch.

Chicago Style Bloody

Ingredients:

•     1/2 teaspoon poppy seeds
•     1 teaspoon celery salt
•     1 wedge lemon
•     2 dill pickle spears
•     12 fluid ounces V8® 100% Vegetable Juice (about 1 1/2 cups), chilled
•     4 fluid ounces vodka (about 1/2 cup)
•     1 1/2 teaspoons yellow mustard
•     3/4 teaspoon dill pickle juice
•     3/4 teaspoon finely grated sweet onion

Instructions:

Servings: 2

•     Stir the poppy seeds and 1/4 teaspoon celery salt on a plate. Rub the cut side of the lemon wedge around the rims of 2 glasses. Dip the rims of the glasses into the poppy seed mixture to coat. Place the pickle spears into the glasses. Fill the glasses with ice.
•     Stir the vegetable juice, vodka, mustard, pickle juice, onion and remaining celery salt in a pitcher. Season to taste. Pour the vegetable juice mixture into the glasses.
•     Serving Suggestion: Garnish with skewers of Chicago-style favorites, like cherry tomatoes, sport peppers or pepperoncini peppers, gherkins, grilled Vienna sausages (or Vienne Beef hot dogs if you're in Chicago), and/or cocktail onions.

Fells Point Mary (Baltimore)

 
Ingredients:

•     1 bottle (64 fluid ounces) V8® 100% Vegetable Juice (about 8 cups)
•     1 can (10 ½ ounces) Campbell's® Healthy Request® Condensed Cream of Celery Soup
•     1/4 cup fresh horseradish
•     1/2 cup reduced sodium Worcestershire sauce
•     1/4 cup dill pickle juice
•     Juice of 1 lemon
•     4 tablespoons Old Bay® Seasoning
•     1 raw oyster (preferably from the Chesapeake Bay)
•     1 ½ fluid ounces vodka (1 shot or about 3 tablespoons)

Instructions:

Servings: 1

•     For Fells Point Bloody Mary Mix, add ½ of the bottle of vegetable juice (about 4 cups) and soup to a blender and blend until smooth. Pour mixture into a large pitcher and stir in the remaining vegetable juice (about 4 cups), horseradish, Worcestershire, pickle juice, lemon and Old Bay® seasoning.
•     Shuck the oyster and reserve the oyster and oyster liquor.
•     Fill a pint glass with ice. Stir the reserved oyster liquor, Bloody Mary Mix and vodka in the glass.
•     Serving Suggestion: Garnish with the reserved raw oyster, 2 pickled green beans and 1 dill pickle spear. Sprinkle with additional Old Bay® Seasoning.

Porterluma Bloody (Petaluma, Calif.)

 
Ingredients:

•     4 fluid ounces V8® 100% Vegetable Juice (about ½ cup)
•     2 fluid ounces Petaluma Hills Porterluma® Brown Porter or other porter beer (about ¼ cup)
•     1 teaspoon F.A. Nino's Mango Habanero Hot Sauce
•     1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
•     1/2 teaspoon horseradish
•     1/4 teaspoon lime juice
•     1 pinch each salt, ground black pepper, and celery seed

Instructions:

Servings: 1

•     Add the vegetable juice, porter, hot sauce, Worcestershire, horseradish, lime juice, salt, black pepper and celery seed to a cocktail shaker. Cover and shake to mix.
•     Fill a pint glass with ice. Pour the vegetable juice mixture into the glass.
•     Serving Suggestion: Garnish with a cooked bacon slice, asparagus stalks and a cold, cooked, peeled shrimp..."

See the rest of the Bloody Mary cocktail variations and say goodbye to Mr. Hangover here: https://www.maxim.com/entertainment/5-v8-bloody-marys-cure-hangover-2015-12

Enjoy everyone!