AK-47 - the Death Banner

Hardcore Blast

 For a cocktail, it was given a name that already struck fear in the hearts. Behalf on the legendary machine-gun from the World War II, which has the honor for saving Russia. Even more, not only their name is equal. Both they are easy-to-do, or in other words, simple but effective. Because you do not have to be Mixologist to make an AK-47 cocktail. Just mixing equal parts in shaker with ice and straining. To be honest, the hardest part is to finish it up.

 Compared to the best cocktails known, this is relatively new. Comes from Russia and also finds best use there, because not every human can deal with tons of alcohol. But not only there, I have friends that will drink this with ease and will go insane for the night. So it is more to personality, if you can take the risk of losing mind, you can bottom this up.

 And this is easy-to-make cocktail, so you will not waste too much time to quench your thirstiness. All we can do is to rim and chill the glass and if we have the skills to forget for the shaker and make semi-layered mixed drink, if not perfectly layered. This requires three things. First of all, we have to know the height of every liquid we will use. Second, we need a bar-spoon. And last, we have to use the bar-spoon properly. I suggest you to learn the technique of making layered cocktails. Because I can't dive in the topic, so I will provide only the basics. Let's make one!

Recipe of AK-47

1/3 oz - Brandy
1/3 oz - Vodka
1/3 oz - Bourbon
1/3 oz - Rye Whiskey
1/3 oz - Rum
1/3 oz - Gin
1/3 oz - Triple Sec
1/3 oz - Fresh Lime Juice


Mixing the ingredients

 If you will not make it layered, just chill a Highball glass. Fill a shaker with the ingredients and ice. Shake them hard to make homogenous mix. Clean the chilled glass to make sugar-rim. If you do not know how, use piece of lime to cover the rim edge of the glass. Just make sure it do it fine, so the sugar will not be everywhere on the outside of the glass. Thereafter fill with ice the glass and pour the shaker content over. Enjoy it, if you like it more enjoyable try harder. Garnish with lime wedge, Maraschino cherry and an umbrella.

 Provided now you know how to use the bar spoon, you have to avoid chilling, because water will help the ingredients to mix better, even in low ammounts. But we can chill it a bit in a fridge and then polish it with clean wash-cloth. Now it is time to do the research. List your alcohols by their height. Pour from the highest to the lightest, following these rules. Use the spoon upside-down and pour slowly in the center, especially the initial drops. Keep the spoon deep in the glass, just to make sure the liquid doesn't fall to hard, but never touch the other. Here we go with every liquid one after the other. In my view the lime juice will dissolve even using this technique, so I suggest doing the cocktail without it.

 Making the cocktail this way requires steel nerves and a lot of undisturbed time, because even the silence matters now. I couldn't do it the first 10 times and you will understand why, but keep on trying the result is just unexplainable. It can't be bought, nor possessed, not narrated, only experienced. It feels like shifting gears of moods and emotions, but requires guts to drink at once. Just remember to not bother garnishing, nor using ice. This has to be pure alcohol pyramid. If you happen to make one, please make a picture of it with good-quality and send it to me. After you try it, tell me. What it feels like to bottom-up an AK-47?