Big Think Expert Cocktails: The Henry Rollins, The Raketini of Innocence, and More!
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A forum where top mixologists explore the party drinks defining the 21st Century . . .
At our Swiss Institut des Experiments aux Beverages, we have assembled the foremost mixological minds of the century and challenged them to embody in cocktail form the essence of one of the greatest thinkers or ideas ever to appear on Big Think. We believe you’ll be pleased with the results.
The Kaku-tail
You will need:
In the year 2512, you will not need ingredients. You will simply harness the molecular building blocks of the universe using disposable, three dimensional dark-matter modeling gloves available in any drugstore.
Directions: Close eyes. Imagine it is 500 years from now. Enjoy.
The Raketini of Innocence
You will need:
1 oz water
1 oz Turkish sour cherry juice
1 oz Absinthe (essential ingredient in any literary cocktail – now legal!)
Directions:
Mix all ingredients in a Collins glass, add ice, and stir. Contemplate forgotten historical objects buried at the bottom of the ocean.
Jonathon Keats’ Copernican Cocktail
You will need:
12 oz water, at room temperature.
Directions:
Dress in beige. Enter beige, unfurnished room. Put water in glass. Drink.
The Henry Rollins
You will need:
Two cans of Red Bull
A newspaper
a penny
An empty marble notebook
A black Sharpie
Directions:
. . . Hours before this article went to press, Henry himself sent us this alternate recipe:
The Henry Rollins is to be enjoyed alone or in mixed company. It is easy to prepare and is found in most places.
01. Fill kettle with fresh, cold water
02. Pre-heat mug as water comes to boil
03. Seconds before water is boiling, put two tea bags in preheated mug
04. Introduce the water as it is still boiling into the mug
03. Allow to cool
04. Drink tea / solve all world problems
The Badassery
You will need:
Directions:
Place scorpion in glass. Stir with rusty nail, leaving in glass. Drink.
The Singularity
You will need:
200 anti-aging pills (available here)
1 maraschino cherry (because that red stuff – whatever it is – preserves them forever).
3 oz Svedka vodka (because their model is from the future).
Muddle pills with cherry at the bottom of a rocks glass. Add crushed ice. Pour in vodka and stir.