Tru: Blood Mixology and cocktail recipes

Everyone loves the vampire series, True Blood, on HBO. It is based on the “Sookie Stackhouse Chronicles” by Charlaine Harris and created for television by Alan Ball. If you haven’t heard, Ball announced at the San Diego Comic Con that HBO will be releasing Tru Blood Beverage, on September 10^th – just in time for the final episode of this season. Tru Blood is a blood orange carbonated drink designed to be bottled like the fictional bloody beverage. According to HBO’s web site, “This blood orange flavored soda is slightly tart, lightly sweet and subtly carbonated. Designed to taste great while matching the appearance of Bill’s favorite drink, the drink pours like a regular soda, but with the standing appearance in a glass is stormy and mysterious.”

The beverage sells for $4/bottle and comes in a 4 pack. Cases may also be purchased from the web site. Already, people are coming up with drink mixes to combine with Tru Blood. Below are five examples of these “special” drinks.

The Fangbanger: ½ ounce of Galliano, 1 ½ ounces of Vodka, 2 ounces of Tru Blood.
Mix vodka and orange juice in a collins glass with ice cubes. Stir well, and float the Galliano on top. Garnish with an orange slice and a maraschino cherry.

Death On The Beach: 1 ½ ounces of Peach Schnapps, 1 ½ ounces of Vodka, 2 ounces of orange juice, 2 ounces of pineapple juice, 2 ounces of Tru Blood.
Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a highball glass filled with ice.

Plasmapolitan: 1 ounce Cointreau, 1 ounce Vodka, 1 dash of fresh lime juice, fill with Tru Blood.
Shake ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass and garnish with an orange twist.

Dutch Blood: 1 ¼ of Absinthe, fill with Tru Blood. (care of www.slashfood.com)
Just add absinthe to an absinthe cup and top with Tru Blood. Just the right bite to mask the caffeine that powers you through until the first light of dawn.

Undead Experience: 1 part Jagermeister, 1 part Triple Sec, 2 parts Vodka, 1 dash Bitters (Angostura), and fill with Tru Blood.
Shake ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Strain into glass. Very potent.

These are the recipes from the HBO web page :


Meticulously crafted, the Tru Blood Drink is an exact replica of the bottle design as seen on True Blood. The 14oz glass Tru Blood bottle is stained in a rich red, with raised Tru Blood English lettering and matching Japanese Kanji.
This blood orange flavored soda is slightly tart, lightly sweet and subtly carbonated. Designed to taste great while matching the appearance of Bill’s favorite drink, the drink pours like a regular soda, but with the standing appearance in a glass is stormy and mysterious.

Drink Menu:
The Fangbanger - Tru Blood, Vodka
Death on the Beach - Tru Blood, Peach Schnapps, Pineapple Juice, Vodka
Plasmapolitan - Tru Blood

Here are Brian and Andy from Camp Blood doing their taste test and a little mixology ...

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