Sometimes the drinks are totally absent (the photo for the Afterbirth is just a fresh, open, white diaper).
The photos, taken by Pete Deevakul, are surreal and highly propped, with cocktails flanked by everything from chess sets and NyQuil to blunts and machinery. Needless to say, this book is best when paged through, not drunk from, unless you are the sort of person who lays awake at night thinking things like, “I can’t believe I’ll raise children who may never know the taste of the original Four Loko.” “I wasn’t really a big bong-water-drinking fan,” she says, “but I heard from that her friends like to keep their bong water in the freezer, and when they want to drink it they mix it with amaretto and they have an amaretto slushie with bong water.” The slushie is listed as a bonus recipe at the bottom of the page. Same goes for the Skunk, a drink featuring IPA, liquid ginseng and bong water. “I’m not a new mom,” explains Russ, who admits she’s never tried one, “and I don’t want to drink someone else’s placenta.” Take the Afterbirth, for example, “a placenta sangria designed for new moms” that calls for red wine, brandy, triple sec, soda, citrus, an apple, sugar (listed as optional) and placenta (not listed as optional). “A lot of people try crazy things when they’re experimenting.”īut even she has limits. “It’s a journal and catalog of really ridiculous things that I’ve tried,” says Russ. The recipes in Energy, she says, are all designed to replicate “that Four Loko feeling.” They come with names like Bouncy Castle and Leather Daddie, each drink less a recipe than a conceptual art piece. A few of them even call for cocaine and Molly, but the illicit ingredients are more satirical trip down memory lane than mandate. She’s been mixing her own energy cocktails ever since. We can recreate it for ourselves,” she recently told me over the phone. When the drink was banned and subsequently rereleased without alcohol, Russ and her college friends in Chapel Hill, NC, decided to take matters into their own hands. Russ is an LA-based bartender and longtime devotee of Four Loko, that infamous canned “energy drink” that caused untold numbers of teenagers to black out between 20.
Of course, the lemonade in question here is actually lemonade-flavored Four Loko. The book is a collection of drink recipes that combine taurine and spirits with a whole manner of other ingredients, contraceptive and otherwise. “When life gives you lemons, throw some Champagne in your lemonade and take a Plan B,” writes bartender and energy drink enthusiast Stephanie Russ in her 2015 book Energy: Cocktails to Get You UP.
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