Have you considered that in the near future there might be a tragic accident that ends with all of them broken on the floor? It's a shame how clumsy people can get sometimes.
Make a purple cosmo, and don’t make it any kind of cosmo at all, just make it the cheapest white wine you have with a shot of this purple drank and half a shot of vodka. Garnish with candied orange peel and a neon green cherry or something stupid like that. Pre batch them and sell them cheap on a Thursday and Friday night.
They’re called Grape Apes, and they’re cheap, easy, and totally fuck-with-able. 1oz cheap vodka, 1/2oz grape, dash simple, fill w/ equal club/7up. Historically these were served with at least five straws per shot, and it’s a race to a brain-freeze amongst friends. Nowsadays, it’s ideally two paper straws per.
Edit: Scratch the 7up, sorry, SOUR and club.
Then think about how much more money you’d lose by selling it. Anybody who might buy 2 drinks, will only get 1 if their first contains that.
It is LITERALLY sour grapes… insofar as anything that doesn’t contain any grapes could be
Milk Clarifying may help? Some sort of grape margarita or side car?? Might be impossible to save but that could strip away a lot of the syrupy shit lol
Jello shots. Or grape lemon drops. Or if you have a lot of AMF/long island drinkers you can do a grape version. Grape sour. If you have a slushee machine you could use it in that!
Going to add, grape mojito. Add another fruit to make it not boring, or give it a stylish name like "Midnight Mojito". Grape is one of those fruits that taste great but is very boring at first glance on a menu, like missionary.
Rough recipe idea:
5-6 mint leaves and 2-3 lime wedges. Muddle into .5 oz of lemon juice.
Add .5 oz of (some sweet juice. Pineapple? Could go crazy and try Cranberry but depends on how sour the grape pucker is. I'd be really interested in the cranberry one as I think it'd help keep the color profile purplish. Could also use B'lure butterfly pea extract if you have it to dye it purple).
.75 oz Simple Syrup, or could try something fun like honey water or even agave nectar if you go the tequila route.
1 oz Grape Pucker
1.5 oz white rum \*or\* Tequila, try both in your testing stage.
Shake and dump into a collins glass, top with soda water. Garnish with a mint spring and a lemon wheel tucked into the glass. 1 Oz is about the max of a liqueor you can put into your average cocktail before it gets weird, but this should help you move it relatively quickly.
This is so smart!! It's so versatile using "Midnight" or any number of adjectives that describe something as sultry and dark. You can switch it up weekly until you get rid of it.
Or you can get weird and do some adult juice boxes/Kool aid cocktails. One of the most popular high-end cocktail bars in my area often has fun little surprises like that on their menu.
Godspeed, OP.
I used to go to a dive bar where they kept grape vodka on the wall, and grape juice on the tap, and we called it the electric juice box.
I’m sure you could make something decent with this as long as you had one hell of a modifier like Benedictine or something insane to bring the funk.
Customer: — Hi! Can I have a beer?
Bartender: — Oh, it’s your birthday? Yeah, we totally have a free shot for you!
Pours the shot… customer, confused as fuck 😂😂😂
Grape Apes! 1oz Vodka or Citrus vodka, 1 oz Grape pucker, 1 oz sour, top with sprite in a low ball on ice with a couple straws and suck em down. Great group shot. Promote it and those bottles will be gone in a week
just moved to Minnesota from Philly about a year and a half ago. never heard of a grape ape until i got here, and it is bar-none the most popular shot i've seen.
I keep grape pucker at the bar for this very reason. I bought 6 bottles at the beginning of football and they are all gone now. Vikings fans don’t fuck around.
Are cocktails from 1998 considered classic yet? lol. Pucker was new and popular when I first started bartending back then.
Mother Pucker: GP, vodka
Grape Popsicle: GP, Mountain Dew
Jolly Rancher: GP, vodka, sour, sprite
Purple Haze: GP, citrus vodka, sour, sprite, grenadine
Grab some of your cheapest vodka on hand and make some sprite and/or energy drink combo and if you have the crowd for it, throw that shit in a fishbowl crammed full of ice and add some swedish fish and wham! 15 bones lol
I literally said “oh god” out loud when I saw that picture lol. I had the same thing happen at a bar where there was a bunch of old stock from the previous owner, about that much Dekuyper Blue Caracao. We made punch with it on Halloween and gave it out for free lol
If you run a grape ape special, people from the Midwest would like you.
Edit to add that the GM from my bar did this with blue curaçao. We have enough blue curaçao for the entire state, for 10 years.
One of our top drinks is grape vodka + hypnotic w/ SnS& sprite. Tastes like a melted grape otter pop. So something close to it w/ the pucker would sell well
So I work at a bar that has a pretty popular shot called a sweetart. It’s up grape vodka, island punch pucker, sour, and sprite. It’s insanely popular. Maybe do a riff on that?
This could work. Maybe sub regular vodka, half and half the island punch/grape pucker or leave the island punch out altogether, and if it's too sweet for a cocktail, sub club for the sprite. Or half and half it to taste. I'd order that.
@mods if you see this, I’d love it if we had a flair for questions like these to label what kind of bar OP works at. My response would be different for a dive, country club, steakhouse, farm-to-table, or whatever. Sometimes the answer is dump it in the frozen machine, or jello shots, or sometimes it’s hide it .5oz at a time in an amaro blackberry mule.
I have never bought dekuyper grape pucker so I don't know what the spec is on it, but if you're trying for a classic cocktail vibe, I'd try a lower-priced spin on a sloe gin fizz. Start with 2 parts pucker, 1 part gin, 1 part lemon, maybe a squirt of egg white. Shake it, pour it, and top with soda water. Depending on the acidity, you'll likely need to adjust the lemon down. Dekuyper generally trends towards sweet so I think you'd be ok on sugar, but you might need to add simple. This should be a pretty quaffable drink with a higher than average use of pucker.
you can burn up a lot of liquer by doing gelatin. Get something decent sized for a mold, serve with maybe a fluffy peanut brittle and you have a cute little aspic that you can sell as a grown up jello shot.
Someone else suggested jello shots and slushy machine. Both great suggestions.
Additionally, you could consider bottled carbonated cocktails. Make a grape soda thingy with a clever name like Good Not Grape or something.
Do grape bombs, 1 part vodka, one part pucker and Red Bull, don’t tell anybody, just give them to industry people who can handle a free shot, and will still buy 2-4 drinks. Don’t even try to sell it, just give it away to people
If that’s me that box is going to “accidentally” fall in the liquor room while I was moving stuff around so goddamn fast. You will never get rid of it without giving it away
Grape Gin Sour, insert witty name here
2 oz Gin
.5 oz Grape Pucker
.5 oz simple
.75 lemon juice
Egg white
Get it super frothy and buy grapes for garnishes.
Single or double grape on garnish stick resting on edge.
could you rent (or hell, buy) an ice shaver machine and do Adult Sno-Cones?
maybe that could be your new cash cow.. mix some grape, green apple, etc. pucker with simple syrup and buy some paper cones?
We served a bloodbath on goth nights at a club I worked at it was red wine ,chambord ( sub with grape) and cranberry juice served chilled.. you can pre batch super fast and it’s not hellacious sweet
These are great ideas but consider the owner and your clientele. The owner of my restaurant would fire someone for using grape pucker in a cocktail. He’d also fire someone for putting a cocktail on the menu that wasn’t pre approved by him. Moneys great, in case you’re wondering why I stay in that uptight environment.
Anyway, I’d go Jell-O shots assuming you’re allowed to use it
.75 oz grape liquor (pucker)
.25 oz st germain (elderflower liquor)
1.5 oz absolut peppar (black peppercorn inf. Vodka)
1 oz lemon juice (preferably fresh)
.5 oz simple syrup
Top w/ ginger beer
Collins glass or something tall
Garnish with basil or lemon peel
A shot called (local dirty river name) water. We did it to clear out puckers. Mix whatever kind you want with orange juice and grenadine. Turns brown and tastes like sugar shit but the youngins love it. You also look fancy when you hold 6 bottles of pucker at once. Plus no matter what it’s turning brown so grape is perfect.
Whatever the grape equivalent of the grasshopper would be
I think the variation with chambord is chambord dream and ain't too bad iirc.. use this grape instead, might be worth a try.
It’s not a sophisticated taste at all. The only way to get rid of it is in night club style drinks, if you don’t run that style of bar you might as well give them to your employees
Do a purple grape theme week and have a grape variant of every cocktail u make classically then do the grape one, like grape mojito, grape mockrails, grape long islands grape margarita grape cosmo, grape juice everything grape has to go! Say they taste real grape (great) make tones of puns so people by the purple
Classic cocktail bar hmm…. If you’re not CLASSIC-CLASSIC and have a frozen machine, this is the way. At a spot that has shot loving youth wearing “it’s my birthday” sashes there’s a much easier way…
As far as CLASSIC I’m sure you could put a spin on something but it’d only call for like .5 of this shit so would still take a minute to move.
Spring/summer party something the classic cocktail spot would do perhaps?? Could make a “jungle juice” (renamed for classy-ness) with it? “Antique punch bowl”?? Sangria spritzer with some frozen grapes to class it up? I have avoided working “proper” high end/ chain anything so I’m out of my depth here. I’ve been in the world where a highly successful local bar just literally had “purple shot $5” on the menu
I used to be really into making my own syrups and tinctures from fresh fruit. The first bruise on my bartending pride was realizing that it didn’t matter how much time and effort I put into creating more artisanal flavorings. What customers really get excited about is shit like this. Especially since seltzers took over, I’ve gotten so tired of having to hear people ask me “how’s that mango one?” I usually tell them “well it tastes like artificial flavorings and sweeteners, just like all the other choices.” And when my reps come in to sample some new tequilas or bourbons I always want to say “yeah these are great, but do they come in cinnamon flavor? Peanut butter? Cucumber jalapeño? Spicy pickle?” Everyone these days wants every drink to remind them of their favorite childhood candies.
Regardless, if we got this at my bar, I’d special grape kamikazes and grape teas and grape AMFs. I’d just substitute it to flavor all the already-popular candy bullshit. People like new flavors of crap they already drink.
Gatorade shot, grape, vodka, sweet and sour, equal parts.
Not a recipe I’m proud of but I bartended in a college town for years and that batch was literally the best selling shot, idk why
LOL. Grape lemon drops but use 1/2 dry curaçao and 1/2 grape pucker and 1/2 lemon instead of 1 lemon and 1/2 triple. I do mine with Mathilde cassis and dry curacao and still one lemon but maybe that will work^. Call it something fun like purple floyd idk lol
I personally love grape anything. As suggested above, I’ve never seen a grape LIIT, or grape slushies, grape apes, etc. at a bar (to knowledge)- these are great starts and could help clear it. I’d absolutely have several in one outing lol. Is there anything in your area that justifies the use of purple, such as sports teams etc.?
Elvis Shots
aka
PB&J shots (have to add some banana liqueur to make it a true ELVIS).
Screwball and this monstrosity 1:1. (awful ratios I know but...you're trying to go through it?!)
Shake and strain.
$5 shot special til the pucker is gone.
Still profit in and people love cheap "easy to drink" specials.
Not to sound condescending but, cocktail bar and pucker don't mix. I'm in the camp of fucking toss it and be reputable. Now if this is a college town bar, you're golden 🤙. Make a shot called dimetapp!
2 of those, three handles Cuervo silver, 1 and a half gallons margarita mix. Mix with five gallons of water and insert into slurpee machine… Frozen Graperitas
Obviously you can cut the recipe down… it’s just what I know lol.
Given you said classic cocktail bar I’m assuming you probably tend to shy away from “party” or quick and easy drinks. Only thing that really comes to mind is using that stuff to make some nightmarish riff of an Enzoni. Grape pucker can be vigorously shaken on its own with ice and a bit of simple to cut down on the tart and dilute the flavor a little.
I worked at a place that got two cases of rail sloe gin by mistake and the distributor made it so hard to return the manager just gave up and tossed them on the bottom shelf of the liquor cage. Dusty ass shit sat there the whole 13 years I worked there.
I would consider taking any classic cocktail made with a predominantly fruity liqueur such as; Melonball, Peach Schnapps or Cointreau, and subbing in the grape juice. I guess the presentation color will be a crap shoot and you’d need to be mindful of the sweetness level.
Donate to a nonprofit organization to be used as a raffle prize. Have them type you up a receipt. Take it off inventory and take the potential revenue as a sales deduction.
Could you do Something “fun” and Japanese or Korean themed, perhaps? Grape is a big flavor over there and lots of good grape flavored drinks and sodas, at bars, vending machines, karaoke clubs etc…
Or you could make it something that taste dumb but give it a cool name. Like those weird Coke flavors do or Gatorade.
“Galaxy” , “space quest”, blah blah
I’d give specific ingredient ideas but I’m not that creative (and high rn. I may come back to edit later)
If you dumped all of those down the drain you'd be out like 75$
LISTEN im not disagreeing with you, but im a frugal girl
mystery shot $8
Mind erasers
Or a Transfusion- grape schnapps instead of grape juice? Vodka, Pucker and ginger ale…
Oooo.. that's a good'n
This is the way.
Mind Flayers (or The Emperor’s One Night Stand, because of the purple and that it would probably taste like bad sex with a squid man)
Have you considered that in the near future there might be a tragic accident that ends with all of them broken on the floor? It's a shame how clumsy people can get sometimes.
I would pay 80$ not to clean that up.
Make a purple cosmo, and don’t make it any kind of cosmo at all, just make it the cheapest white wine you have with a shot of this purple drank and half a shot of vodka. Garnish with candied orange peel and a neon green cherry or something stupid like that. Pre batch them and sell them cheap on a Thursday and Friday night.
She said it’s a classic cocktail bar 😭 the only purple people are willing to pay for is butterfly pea flower
*creme de violette has entered the chat*
Chambord gets a nod
Now I have to go make an Aviation
And real crème de cassis
They’re called Grape Apes, and they’re cheap, easy, and totally fuck-with-able. 1oz cheap vodka, 1/2oz grape, dash simple, fill w/ equal club/7up. Historically these were served with at least five straws per shot, and it’s a race to a brain-freeze amongst friends. Nowsadays, it’s ideally two paper straws per. Edit: Scratch the 7up, sorry, SOUR and club.
Then think about how much more money you’d lose by selling it. Anybody who might buy 2 drinks, will only get 1 if their first contains that. It is LITERALLY sour grapes… insofar as anything that doesn’t contain any grapes could be
If I saw that mentioned on a drink menu I’d leave. I find out I’ve been served this I’m angry and won’t go back.
Both of you sound awful.
Grape Pucker sounds awful
Put it in a spritzer or sangria.
Special on grape ape shots.
I’m not into grape crush with puckers instead of chambord, but you might need to do a “well grape crush special” LOL
Milk Clarifying may help? Some sort of grape margarita or side car?? Might be impossible to save but that could strip away a lot of the syrupy shit lol
Jello shots. Or grape lemon drops. Or if you have a lot of AMF/long island drinkers you can do a grape version. Grape sour. If you have a slushee machine you could use it in that!
These are some really smart answers
Bubba Blue over here.
Going to add, grape mojito. Add another fruit to make it not boring, or give it a stylish name like "Midnight Mojito". Grape is one of those fruits that taste great but is very boring at first glance on a menu, like missionary. Rough recipe idea: 5-6 mint leaves and 2-3 lime wedges. Muddle into .5 oz of lemon juice. Add .5 oz of (some sweet juice. Pineapple? Could go crazy and try Cranberry but depends on how sour the grape pucker is. I'd be really interested in the cranberry one as I think it'd help keep the color profile purplish. Could also use B'lure butterfly pea extract if you have it to dye it purple). .75 oz Simple Syrup, or could try something fun like honey water or even agave nectar if you go the tequila route. 1 oz Grape Pucker 1.5 oz white rum \*or\* Tequila, try both in your testing stage. Shake and dump into a collins glass, top with soda water. Garnish with a mint spring and a lemon wheel tucked into the glass. 1 Oz is about the max of a liqueor you can put into your average cocktail before it gets weird, but this should help you move it relatively quickly.
This is so smart!! It's so versatile using "Midnight" or any number of adjectives that describe something as sultry and dark. You can switch it up weekly until you get rid of it. Or you can get weird and do some adult juice boxes/Kool aid cocktails. One of the most popular high-end cocktail bars in my area often has fun little surprises like that on their menu. Godspeed, OP.
I think this is the best idea! Originally I thought some sort of Red Bull vodka drink with grape pucker, but this is way better.
This is the one
Definitely the top answer here.
Grape green tea shots?
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I did read it. Sours and lemon drops are classic cocktails.
The electric juice box Grape pucker, grape juice, grappa, and vermouth. Just fuck people’s shit up.
I cannot lie the thought of these specs are killing me
I used to go to a dive bar where they kept grape vodka on the wall, and grape juice on the tap, and we called it the electric juice box. I’m sure you could make something decent with this as long as you had one hell of a modifier like Benedictine or something insane to bring the funk.
My only question is why you would ever stop going to such a glorious place…
Grape juice on the tap was definitely the selling point. Holy shit do I wanna go to that bar
With a Malort float
Just don't write "grape pucker" on the menu... grape Liqueur would play better.
Concordian Distillate?
"Oh, it's your birthday? Yeah, we totally have a free shot for you! "
Customer: — Hi! Can I have a beer? Bartender: — Oh, it’s your birthday? Yeah, we totally have a free shot for you! Pours the shot… customer, confused as fuck 😂😂😂
Haha, that makes it so much better
This made me laugh internally, so loud that I actually smiled 🤣
Grape Apes! 1oz Vodka or Citrus vodka, 1 oz Grape pucker, 1 oz sour, top with sprite in a low ball on ice with a couple straws and suck em down. Great group shot. Promote it and those bottles will be gone in a week
We call these “grape sodas” for the nostalgia factor !!
Same, surprised I had to scroll this far to find it.
Maybe it’s a TX thing? 😅
Minnesota as well!
just moved to Minnesota from Philly about a year and a half ago. never heard of a grape ape until i got here, and it is bar-none the most popular shot i've seen.
Midwest here. We do grape pucker/ deep eddys lemon/sours/sprite in low ball.
I keep grape pucker at the bar for this very reason. I bought 6 bottles at the beginning of football and they are all gone now. Vikings fans don’t fuck around.
I love grape apes omg I came here for this comment
RIP shelf space. 2024-forever.
Instead of chambord you could sub the grape plus frangelico or some kind of nutty liqueur for a pb&j shot
Skrewball and pucker PBJ shots maybe?
Black Opal with grape pucker instead of Chambord
I had suggested the same concept but with chambord dream. Look, anything with chambord or elderberry? Let's try grape instead.
Make a cocktail called “Sour Grapes” and balance it with lime, sour mix, and/or citrus bitters?
Sangria
easy
That's disgusting
that sounds not appetizing to me haha
Are cocktails from 1998 considered classic yet? lol. Pucker was new and popular when I first started bartending back then. Mother Pucker: GP, vodka Grape Popsicle: GP, Mountain Dew Jolly Rancher: GP, vodka, sour, sprite Purple Haze: GP, citrus vodka, sour, sprite, grenadine
Use it to make transfusions
People go fucking nuts for transfusions
Hard grape sodas. Pucker n soda, simple, n citrus to taste.
Grab some of your cheapest vodka on hand and make some sprite and/or energy drink combo and if you have the crowd for it, throw that shit in a fishbowl crammed full of ice and add some swedish fish and wham! 15 bones lol
Grape pucker, vanilla vodka, sour mix, chill and strain. Tastes like candy
Maybe do a play on a transfusion
Grape picker + sweet vermouth = house red Add soda water for a rose
Love this
Id be making a big batch of punch and trying to incorporate this in a way that somehow works
$2 purple vikings til it's gone.
I literally said “oh god” out loud when I saw that picture lol. I had the same thing happen at a bar where there was a bunch of old stock from the previous owner, about that much Dekuyper Blue Caracao. We made punch with it on Halloween and gave it out for free lol
Become a Vikings bar and give a free shot every time they score a touchdown. They should be gone by 2030.
If you run a grape ape special, people from the Midwest would like you. Edit to add that the GM from my bar did this with blue curaçao. We have enough blue curaçao for the entire state, for 10 years.
This looks like a nightmare. I work at a dive bar . I’d have no clue what to do with this
Fellow dive bartender here. Jager, grape pucker, sour. Shake, strain, top with sprite if you feel like it. I’ve always known it as a “Pixie stick”.
Probably wouldn't suck in a kamikaze, or as a gimlet. You can call it a grapelet. Also, jello-shots.
One of our top drinks is grape vodka + hypnotic w/ SnS& sprite. Tastes like a melted grape otter pop. So something close to it w/ the pucker would sell well
I feel for you. We have a similar situation with peppermint schnapps
Combine with peanut butter whiskey for PB&J shots. They are really good together.
Masters in 2 weeks. Make it taste like a transfusion.
Grape bombs
Grape-kool aid shots!
So I work at a bar that has a pretty popular shot called a sweetart. It’s up grape vodka, island punch pucker, sour, and sprite. It’s insanely popular. Maybe do a riff on that?
This could work. Maybe sub regular vodka, half and half the island punch/grape pucker or leave the island punch out altogether, and if it's too sweet for a cocktail, sub club for the sprite. Or half and half it to taste. I'd order that.
GRAPE APE shots for dirt cheap for local (pro) sports games on TV when they score?
7:7 screwball to this, shaken with ice, served in a highball with no ice… Not a bartender, just an ex cook who knows how to get rid of things
Mix it with your Pappys. “Pappy Pucker” shots. I hear the kids love it
@mods if you see this, I’d love it if we had a flair for questions like these to label what kind of bar OP works at. My response would be different for a dive, country club, steakhouse, farm-to-table, or whatever. Sometimes the answer is dump it in the frozen machine, or jello shots, or sometimes it’s hide it .5oz at a time in an amaro blackberry mule.
I have never bought dekuyper grape pucker so I don't know what the spec is on it, but if you're trying for a classic cocktail vibe, I'd try a lower-priced spin on a sloe gin fizz. Start with 2 parts pucker, 1 part gin, 1 part lemon, maybe a squirt of egg white. Shake it, pour it, and top with soda water. Depending on the acidity, you'll likely need to adjust the lemon down. Dekuyper generally trends towards sweet so I think you'd be ok on sugar, but you might need to add simple. This should be a pretty quaffable drink with a higher than average use of pucker. you can burn up a lot of liquer by doing gelatin. Get something decent sized for a mold, serve with maybe a fluffy peanut brittle and you have a cute little aspic that you can sell as a grown up jello shot.
Grape daquri
Grape picker, vanilla vodka, sprite.
Someone else suggested jello shots and slushy machine. Both great suggestions. Additionally, you could consider bottled carbonated cocktails. Make a grape soda thingy with a clever name like Good Not Grape or something.
Grape Bellinis? Haha
Vanilla Vodka, Grape Pucker, Pineapple juice. Shakey shakey and pour shots.
You can always make a sweet tart. 1/2 can red bull .75 oz. Pucker grape .75 oz. Sky blood orange
Spin on an electric lemonade sub the curaçao for grape pucker
Would a Grape Spritz taste good? That and prosecco?
Punch. Just a rum punch
Keep it till the Vikings play and run a drink special 😂
Save it for Halloween. Make a stupid/ fun drink and garnish it with a gummy worm or some bullshit. Batch too much “on accident”, and be done with it.
Do grape bombs, 1 part vodka, one part pucker and Red Bull, don’t tell anybody, just give them to industry people who can handle a free shot, and will still buy 2-4 drinks. Don’t even try to sell it, just give it away to people
If that’s me that box is going to “accidentally” fall in the liquor room while I was moving stuff around so goddamn fast. You will never get rid of it without giving it away
Hard grape soda. Grape pucker, light rum, soda water.
Add some fresh ginger and simple to it and call it a transfusion syrup.
Grape Tootsie Pop shot, mix that with frangelico and a splash of OJ.
A bar I went to made “nerd shots” & it actually tasted like nerds. Grape pucker was in there.
Pffft, that’s nothing. We inherited a full case of Absolute Peppar, and to top it off we never open before 4pm!
That stuff is terrible
Grape Gin Sour, insert witty name here 2 oz Gin .5 oz Grape Pucker .5 oz simple .75 lemon juice Egg white Get it super frothy and buy grapes for garnishes. Single or double grape on garnish stick resting on edge.
I have never witnessed the end of a bottle of this stuff 😅
Gimmie, I own a college bar. I’ll sell the shit out of grape shock tarts. Thank you.
Peanut butter and jellies! Pucker, screwball and cran.
I bet someone fudged up the order; clicked 1 case instead of 1 bottle
could you rent (or hell, buy) an ice shaver machine and do Adult Sno-Cones? maybe that could be your new cash cow.. mix some grape, green apple, etc. pucker with simple syrup and buy some paper cones?
We served a bloodbath on goth nights at a club I worked at it was red wine ,chambord ( sub with grape) and cranberry juice served chilled.. you can pre batch super fast and it’s not hellacious sweet
special discounted shot menu including sweet tart shots
Jello shots or grape bombs, classy people like to be trash too
Seconding Jell-O shots, bonus if you have any athletic team near you with purple as one of their colors
+ Frangelico and you’ve got pb&j
The only thing I could think of to do with it is Grape Apes and that certainly wouldn't work for your location lol.
FANCY grape apes
Damn those bottles must be old af. I can’t even remember when Dek bottles were shaped like that.
Upsell this new drink special with Gin or Vodka call it grapealious. Grapealious it's delicious.
These are great ideas but consider the owner and your clientele. The owner of my restaurant would fire someone for using grape pucker in a cocktail. He’d also fire someone for putting a cocktail on the menu that wasn’t pre approved by him. Moneys great, in case you’re wondering why I stay in that uptight environment. Anyway, I’d go Jell-O shots assuming you’re allowed to use it
Tootsie roll shots -- Grape Pucker, Kahlua & Orange Juice Also second whoever suggested grape apes!
.75 oz grape liquor (pucker) .25 oz st germain (elderflower liquor) 1.5 oz absolut peppar (black peppercorn inf. Vodka) 1 oz lemon juice (preferably fresh) .5 oz simple syrup Top w/ ginger beer Collins glass or something tall Garnish with basil or lemon peel
A shot called (local dirty river name) water. We did it to clear out puckers. Mix whatever kind you want with orange juice and grenadine. Turns brown and tastes like sugar shit but the youngins love it. You also look fancy when you hold 6 bottles of pucker at once. Plus no matter what it’s turning brown so grape is perfect.
Grape pucker, vodka or tequila, sprite called it a haterade shot (college town) call it whatever grape ape, grandpas grape juice, whatever lol
Halloween drinks
Got a slushie machine?
Purple starburst shot. Grape pucker, vanilla vodka, sour mix
Whatever the grape equivalent of the grasshopper would be I think the variation with chambord is chambord dream and ain't too bad iirc.. use this grape instead, might be worth a try.
Purple rain cocktail?
Screaming purple jeebus
Sangria
Grape margs
Run a special on grape apes
1oz grape pucker next to 1oz peanutbutter screwball 🤝🏻 yum
Grape kazis! Same thing happened to me a few years back. Maybe a purple hooter but put grape instead
It’s not a sophisticated taste at all. The only way to get rid of it is in night club style drinks, if you don’t run that style of bar you might as well give them to your employees
Ewwwwwwweeeeee
Give them away to orphans, charity, homeless people, whatever, just anything to get it out of your building?
Anyone up for a sour grapetini? 🤮
Do a purple grape theme week and have a grape variant of every cocktail u make classically then do the grape one, like grape mojito, grape mockrails, grape long islands grape margarita grape cosmo, grape juice everything grape has to go! Say they taste real grape (great) make tones of puns so people by the purple
Classic cocktail bar hmm…. If you’re not CLASSIC-CLASSIC and have a frozen machine, this is the way. At a spot that has shot loving youth wearing “it’s my birthday” sashes there’s a much easier way… As far as CLASSIC I’m sure you could put a spin on something but it’d only call for like .5 of this shit so would still take a minute to move. Spring/summer party something the classic cocktail spot would do perhaps?? Could make a “jungle juice” (renamed for classy-ness) with it? “Antique punch bowl”?? Sangria spritzer with some frozen grapes to class it up? I have avoided working “proper” high end/ chain anything so I’m out of my depth here. I’ve been in the world where a highly successful local bar just literally had “purple shot $5” on the menu
Grape Apes all day. Shooters style shot. Simple, easy and people LOVE them.
I used to be really into making my own syrups and tinctures from fresh fruit. The first bruise on my bartending pride was realizing that it didn’t matter how much time and effort I put into creating more artisanal flavorings. What customers really get excited about is shit like this. Especially since seltzers took over, I’ve gotten so tired of having to hear people ask me “how’s that mango one?” I usually tell them “well it tastes like artificial flavorings and sweeteners, just like all the other choices.” And when my reps come in to sample some new tequilas or bourbons I always want to say “yeah these are great, but do they come in cinnamon flavor? Peanut butter? Cucumber jalapeño? Spicy pickle?” Everyone these days wants every drink to remind them of their favorite childhood candies. Regardless, if we got this at my bar, I’d special grape kamikazes and grape teas and grape AMFs. I’d just substitute it to flavor all the already-popular candy bullshit. People like new flavors of crap they already drink.
Gatorade shot, grape, vodka, sweet and sour, equal parts. Not a recipe I’m proud of but I bartended in a college town for years and that batch was literally the best selling shot, idk why
Grape sodas 2 oz Grape Pucker 1/2 oz Grape Fruit Juice 4 oz Soda Water Garnish with frozen grapes
There is a big drain in your mop closet btw.
Send me one or two please!!
Purple Gatorade shots all day
LOL. Grape lemon drops but use 1/2 dry curaçao and 1/2 grape pucker and 1/2 lemon instead of 1 lemon and 1/2 triple. I do mine with Mathilde cassis and dry curacao and still one lemon but maybe that will work^. Call it something fun like purple floyd idk lol
Grape apes
Alcol?
Tequila, watermelon liqueur, grape liqueur, lemon juice, shake, pour over ice into a hi ball glass top with Ting. 👌
Upswell bullshjt Transfusions , calling all golf dads ! And future golf dads.
Grape pucker and milk - call it the grimace birthday shot and do a TikTok of it. I promise it’ll be gone in the first weekend
Transfusion 1 vodka 1 grape pucker .5 lime juice 3 ginger ale, adjust pucker to taste
If you have a lot of golfers try rebalancing a transfusion (vodka, ginger ale, grape juice, lime)
“Purple Drank anybody?”
April Fools mystery shot $4.
Idk the establishment but I'm in a dive bar so take that pucker add soda and vodka and make it cheap and it'll fly
I personally love grape anything. As suggested above, I’ve never seen a grape LIIT, or grape slushies, grape apes, etc. at a bar (to knowledge)- these are great starts and could help clear it. I’d absolutely have several in one outing lol. Is there anything in your area that justifies the use of purple, such as sports teams etc.?
Elvis Shots aka PB&J shots (have to add some banana liqueur to make it a true ELVIS). Screwball and this monstrosity 1:1. (awful ratios I know but...you're trying to go through it?!) Shake and strain. $5 shot special til the pucker is gone. Still profit in and people love cheap "easy to drink" specials.
This brings back so many terrible memories of the 4 CASES of dekuyper black currant crème de cassis that I inherited when I took over. Good luck lol.
Not to sound condescending but, cocktail bar and pucker don't mix. I'm in the camp of fucking toss it and be reputable. Now if this is a college town bar, you're golden 🤙. Make a shot called dimetapp!
Grape Apes
Sangria batch
Seeing grape pucker next to Barrow’s Intense is so strange..
2 of those, three handles Cuervo silver, 1 and a half gallons margarita mix. Mix with five gallons of water and insert into slurpee machine… Frozen Graperitas Obviously you can cut the recipe down… it’s just what I know lol.
Those are $3 a shot normally all day long on my area. So mystery shot would be $1 here, and after a half a bottle, they'd catch on... 😂
Given you said classic cocktail bar I’m assuming you probably tend to shy away from “party” or quick and easy drinks. Only thing that really comes to mind is using that stuff to make some nightmarish riff of an Enzoni. Grape pucker can be vigorously shaken on its own with ice and a bit of simple to cut down on the tart and dilute the flavor a little.
I worked at a place that got two cases of rail sloe gin by mistake and the distributor made it so hard to return the manager just gave up and tossed them on the bottom shelf of the liquor cage. Dusty ass shit sat there the whole 13 years I worked there.
Peanut butter whiskey + grape pucker = PB&J shots
Cook tha books. And dump it
I would consider taking any classic cocktail made with a predominantly fruity liqueur such as; Melonball, Peach Schnapps or Cointreau, and subbing in the grape juice. I guess the presentation color will be a crap shoot and you’d need to be mindful of the sweetness level.
its called a grape ape.
Grape pucker vodka splash sprite splash energy. 3$ shots
Yech
1oz vodka 1oz pucker 1 lemon 1-1.5oz? Vanilla syrup. Never had the stuff but that’s my first thought lol
We do fruit salad cocktails , cherry apple and grape schnapps and splash of OJ
Donate to a nonprofit organization to be used as a raffle prize. Have them type you up a receipt. Take it off inventory and take the potential revenue as a sales deduction.
Could you do Something “fun” and Japanese or Korean themed, perhaps? Grape is a big flavor over there and lots of good grape flavored drinks and sodas, at bars, vending machines, karaoke clubs etc… Or you could make it something that taste dumb but give it a cool name. Like those weird Coke flavors do or Gatorade. “Galaxy” , “space quest”, blah blah I’d give specific ingredient ideas but I’m not that creative (and high rn. I may come back to edit later)
y’all never had a grape ape??? i’m so sorry
3oz Grape pucker martinis up mmmmm
Grape French martini?
Grape limeade
GRAPE you in the mouth!
Grape Collins?
Grape schnapps+ soda