What makes a good punch??

[Amara]

I'm planning a get together soon-ish and wouldn't mind making some punch..... anyone got any suggestions of what to put in it??

I'm thinking something sweet and non-alcoholic tasting. The other night I was at a friend's house and the punch was so potent, with wine and ginger ale and all sorts of stuff in it, didnt get me drunk - just made me queasy. hehe...

So, what makes a good punch?

 

[The.Menace]

sorry, dunno.

 

[Pittsey]

http://beverage.allrecipes.com/directory/3245.asp

http://www.cooks.com/rec/search/0,1-11,alcoholic_punch,FE.html

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0JAW/is_2002_Winter/ai_97429325

 

[Amara]

^ aah Menace, what good are you?! lol. I thought if anyone would know, it would be you!

 

[Rukas]

Make some mexican punch, fruits and red wine.

Also make sure to get a vodka watermelon, you cant taste the vodka at all...

 

[Amara]

http://beverage.allrecipes.com/directory/3245.asp

http://www.cooks.com/rec/search/0,1-11,alcoholic_punch,FE.html

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0JAW/is_2002_Winter/ai_97429325

Thanks Pittsey, that's quite a list! Heaps of Sangria recipes....haha, that can be so strong, might stick to something fruity like this as the base:

• 1 (6 oz.) orange juice
  1 (6 oz.) lemonade
  1 (46 oz.) pineapple juice
  1 qt. cranberry juice
  2 (6 oz.) limeade
  2 qts. ginger ale
  1 qt. soda water
  1 qt. pineapple sherbet
  Alcohol of your choice (optional)

What alcohol though - vodka, midori, rum, gin....? All of them? haha

Oh yeah Rukas, I should make some vodka watermelon.... dunno how to do that though, never tried. What do you mean by mexican punch - sounds like Sangria if its just red wine with fruits?

 

[Rukas]

^^ Yeah Sangria, I just forgot what it was called.

Well if you invite me, Ill do the watermelon and vodka, if not, ermmmm.... Ill ban you? :S

 

[Cooper]

k....we made this one...nasty shit ut does the job

vodka
tequila
absinthe
cider
ornage juice

 

[Pittsey]

Vodka spiked watermelon - http://www.gotpong.com/partyideas/quickfixes/watermelon/



More party ideas on that site too.


Your party is gonna be a success. And remember where you got the tips.

 

[Amara]

k....we made this one...nasty shit ut does the job

vodka
tequila
absinthe
cider
ornage juice

Actually, I was considering putting absinthe in it. But shit - that mix sounds crazy!

Well if you invite me, Ill do the watermelon and vodka, if not, ermmmm.... Ill ban you? :S

Haha. Okay.


Yeah, I'll make sure everyone knows a stranger on the net gave me some tips, haha, that outta go down well, hey Pittsey!

I'm also gonna need some good drinking games, if you know any of those?
EDIT: saw the link on the site!

 

[The.Menace]

I'm also gonna need some good drinking games, if you know any of those?

LOL, drinkin games always end terrible. I don't like them.

 

[Cooper]

Actually, I was considering putting absinthe in it. But shit - that mix sounds crazy!




Haha. Okay.


Yeah, I'll make sure everyone knows a stranger on the net gave me some tips, haha, that outta go down well, hey Pittsey!

I'm also gonna need some good drinking games, if you know any of those?
EDIT: saw the link on the site!

absinthe ruins everything...its so overpowering in a punch.

good drinking games....21 if u know it

 

[Luv4Pac4Ever]

Jungle Juice


Ingredients
1 L Everclear® alcohol
5.25 L (3 1.75L bottles) vodka
1 bottle peach schnapps
1 pint Bacardi® 151 rum
1 bottle 99 Apples® apple schnapps
10 L Sprite® soda
1 L Sunny Delight® orange juice
1 L triple sec
1.75 L bottle gin
1 bottle DeKuyper® Sour Apple Pucker schnapps
4 bottles Boone's Farm® Strawberry Hill wine
8 L Hawaiian punch
2 containers orange juice concentrate
fruit (as much as desired)

Method
Use a large container ie. ice chest or similar. Allow the fruit to soak in all the alcohol for about 4 - 12 hours. Add all the juice and let sit overnight. Serve the next day.


It's great. You can get alot more ideas at www.drinksmixer.com.

 

[Amara]

^ That looks like a good one, I like the idea of using fruit flavoured alcohol rather than just straight, (which reminds me, I have some Peach Midori in the cupboard that may finally come in handy...) Have you actually made that one? Was kinda hoping people would suggest something that they've tasted. I dont wanna make something random and have it taste like shit, lol.

 

[Luv4Pac4Ever]

^ I myself haven't made it but I have tasted it. It's really pretty good. Mostly got the Hawaiin Punch taste but you can taste the other stuff too. Not really as strong as you might think with all the alcohol in it, least I didn't think so. But eat the fruit too, it soaks up alot of alcohol and it will get you almost as tipsy as the punch will. lol

 

[Amara]

^ Yeah, lol - definately be eating the fruit! Dunno what would work though - obviously strawberries... umm maybe grapes, rasberries (??)... Might just make it up as I go.

 

[Salar]

Sangria i love. And your spanish so it should come natural.
The best way to do it is to just mix a whole llot of juices and then chop some fruit and pour some vodka in it. (No shit, when i make punch that's what i do, The taste is always a different surprise, and generally most have been pretty good)

Drinking games, i love these.
Play the centurion game. 100 shots of beer in 100 minutes (guarenteed to fuck you up), if you don't drink beer, 100 shots of punch.
Invite me and i'll bring my chess game, It's chess, but the peices are little shotty glasses.
Oh another game that i used to love playing is Drinking pictionary (or stripping pictionary, either one is good fun)
You can do the same for poker as well.

 

[Salar]

^ Yeah, lol - definately be eating the fruit! Dunno what would work though - obviously strawberries... umm maybe grapes, rasberries (??)... Might just make it up as I go.

pineapple, apple, pear, straberries, grapes.

 

[Luv4Pac4Ever]

pineapple, apple, pear, straberries, grapes.

Yeah, all of those and watermelon too, maybe kiwi also. Watermelon is the best fruit to put in a punch.