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Drinks for a trad. Finnish Midsummers Eve

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T-Bird

Apr 29, 2007
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Finland (Northern Europe)
#1
Hi.

It's Juhannus this weekend, and us Finns like to celebrate the most important of our holidays with some alcoholic beverages.

Here's a few of them.

"Tequila Sunrise"
1 litre of Tequila
Drink the tequila. Close Your eyes. Wake up in the morning.


"Finnish Champagne"
3/4 Finlandia vodka
Effervescent tablet (any brand)
Crush the tablet into the bottle. Voilà!


"Bumble-bee"
17 cl vodka
1 bumble bee
Slice the bumble bee and mix with vodka.


"Napolian"
6 cl moonshine
1 piece of ravioli (pasta)
Serve as a schnaps. Great appetizer, but a great dinner also in larger quantities. Yammy!



"Eye of a salmon"
1 glass of vodka
1 blueberry
Mix the ingredients. Try the taste.


"A hunters schnaps.
1 litre of moonshine
Moss
Rabbit droppings
Mix the ingredients. Filter out the droppings. A great way to start a moose hunt!


"Coffee surprise" (An original recipe from Turku)
1 lump of sugar
Coffee
Some Koskenkorva vodka
Drop the lump into a cup. Pour some coffee into the cup until the lump dissapears.
Pour vodka into the cup until the lump is visible again. Relax and enjoy.


"Kaffe med dopp" (A recipe from Parainen)
1 coin
Coffee
Moonshine
Drop the coin into a cup, pour some coffee as high as the edge of the coin. Top with moonshine.


"Ruissalo Sunburn"
Some Koskenkorva vodka
1 slice of HK Blue grilled ( a somewhat lo-quality, but tasty thick sausage.)
Top the glass with Koskenkorva, decorate with the sausage slice.


"Rose wine"
A rose with thorns
Moonshine
Smell the rose and drink some moonshine, because there's no-one you can give this lovely rose to.


Dinner table:

"An appetizer from Tampere"
1 postcard from Tampere
6 cl moonshine
Pour the moonshine to a schnaps glass. Drink. Look at the scenery in the postcard. Repeat as needed.


"Fruity punch"
Mix a raisin to a bucket of moonshine. The raisin is optional, if too fruity.


And the next day we are ready to do some heavy drinking :D :D

Sam
 
#2
OK, some odd ones there from a US perspective, but what the hell, I'd try them all given the chance. Not all in the same evening of course otherwise I may not wake up for a few weeks..
How do the customary wishes go: Happy Juhannus maybe? works for me, Happy Juhannus! :)
 
#12
Hi, all.

Should've seen that anus analogy coming :D.

Juhannus is a pagan fest of fertility and such, and Christianity adopted it for the birthday of John the Babtist (Johannes kastaja).

Here's a wikipedia link for those who want to explore a bit further:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsummer

Of course we drink mead, that's a viking thing to do. But it doesn't compare too well with the kick of a good moonshine or vodka, now does it. A drop from the gods is a drop from the gods.

Hauskaa Juhannusta (Happy midsummer) everybody.

Sam
 
#14
Hi.

xgabriele said:
So, you have drinks made with a dead bumble bee and rabbit crap? No thanks...
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How about the other ones? And besides, I promise, when You get to the REALLY good drinks, You won't even notice :D :D

The minge drinking didn't ring a bell so I did a little searching and by accident found this joke that relates to drinking and havin a good time. NOT that minge drinking wouldn't be a good time. In a right place, with a right person.



The Koala and the Little Lizard


A koala is sitting up a gumtree smoking a joint when a little lizard walks past

and looks up and says "HeyKoala ! what are you doing?"

The koala says: "Smoking a joint, come up and have some."

So the little lizard climbs up and sits next to the koala and they have a few joints.

After a while the little lizard says his mouth is 'dry' and is going to get a drink from the river.

But the little lizard is so stoned that he leans too far over and falls into the river.

A crocodile sees this and swims over to the little lizard and helps him to the side, then asks the little lizard: "What's the matter with you?"

The little lizard explains to the crocodile that he was sitting smoking a joint with the koala in the tree, got too stoned and then fell into the river while taking a drink.

The crocodile says he has to check this out and walks into the rain forest, finds the tree where the koala is sitting finishing a joint, and he looks up and says "Hey you!"

So the koala looks down at him and says:

"F*******k dude.......how much water did you drink?!!"

An old one I recon, but made me laugh.
Sam
 
#15
Bryan316 said:
Wait... if you're finnish, why ain't you drinking MEAD???
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Yes, if that's what you call cheap beer :D I think you are mixing Finns with the Norvegians.

We're going to have a traditional juhannus: three days in a cabin near a winter-time ski resort bordering Lapland with some friends. The pubs and clubs at the ski center are opened just for the weekend, which gathers all the people from the nearby summer cottages. We just have a cheap 24-case of lager, some Guinness and a few pounds of BBQ meat to share with my gf, and there are more friends in the general area so we'll be amply supplied for the couple of Midsummer's nights :)

Anyways, happy Midsummer's to everyone! Biggest "good reason for a few beers" holiday of the year, hooray! :

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