Don’t you love options?Īnother one celebrating the flavors inside locally-owned and produced Charleston Mix is Handcraft Kitchen and Cocktails in Mount Pleasant. All made with MAD Mix-a spicy, herbaceous Bloody Mary mix-the base liquor is what sets each apart: Dixie Black Pepper Vodka f or the classic Cucumber -infused vodka f or the Garden Chili-infused vodka for the spicy pepper or the Big Bourbon with bourbon IN IT and a Wild Turkey 101 floater. You have y our pick of flavors at Miller’s All Day with FOUR different Bloody Mary’s to choose from. This choose-your-own- adventure experience allows you to add shrimp, hushpuppies, lobster claws, and King Crab legs till your heart ’s content. What makes it so desirable? The garnishes. Only available on Sundays-which was a lesson learned the hard way-’The Captain’ combines vodka with Charleston Mix for a simple yet flavorful Bloody Mary. If Instagram foodie stardom is what you seek, ‘The Captain’ at The Darling Oyster Bar will lead the way. Here’s where you can get some of the best-and most photogenic-Bloody Mary’s in Charleston. The Bloody Mary pays off it can go wrong, but when it wins, it wins big.” Weird musings, I know, but I have to agree. In hindsight, though risky bets, all solid choices. As my husband says, “I’m not sure why this combination was ever conceptualized in the first place-but I must assume that the first person to mix tomato juice with a spirit was cut from the same cloth as the curious culinary explorer who decided to drink what came from a cow’s teat, or the one who decided to eat what came from a chicken’s rear. Lucky for us, we live here now and get to taste-test our way through Charleston’s tomato-focused beverage creations whenever we please. Today there are more options to try than what would be possible during a “sensible” day-drinking Bloody Mary tour. Another popular cause for a well-made Bloody? To cure a raging hangover-you know the ol’ hair of the dog trick. Thankfully, the Bloody Mary trend-and the compulsion to add as many garnishes as structurally possible-has only continued to get more popular, hand-in-hand with brunches, of course. Others remain, and have grown, such as Taco Boy with their spice-rimmed Bloody in Folly Beach. Now, 10 years and 2 kids later, many of the places we visited have shuttered, such as Vickery’s downtown. So it was decided: a day trip to Charleston-a mere 2.5 hour ride away-for a DIY Bloody Mary tour was in order. And preferably in a town we hadn’t been living in for 5+ years. And not just any Bloody Mary, but the BEST. Many moons ago while still living in Myrtle Beach, my now-husband and I woke up one morning thirsty… for Bloody Mary’s.
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