 I have the perfect summer cocktail drink recipe for you that's low carb, delicious and it won't wreck you the next day. Either njrude22.com with a little bit of a kitchen drink low carb recipe vlog for today. With the weekend coming up here's a nice low carb recipe for you that I concocted after much experimentation and I think it's a pretty decent refreshing and buzz worthy drink that you can enjoy this summer or any day for that matter but it's a good summer drink because it's cold and refreshing. So basically what it is it's a low carb drink made with a combination of spiked seltzers and a little bit of vodka and some non-alcoholic seltzer and ice of course and a big giant cup but basically here here are the ingredients. You start out with I choose the smirnoff sparkling seltzer it doesn't matter what flavor in this case and I'll tell you why in a minute. The second ingredient is a can of crook and marker spiked seltzer spiked what I forget the exact spiked and sparkling or something like that. I chose peach because I've tried a bunch of the flavors not all of them but I chose peach because it made this drink what it is. It's sort of like a peach what do you call those schnapps it had it had a really good taste and the next thing you need to buy is a 50 milliliter airline bottle of vodka. Now I have tried a lot of vodkas and they are very different in terms of how you might feel the next day. I recommend the western sun brand it's a dollar for a 50 milliliter bottle and one little bottle of that makes four 32 ounce drinks that's a gallon of summer cocktails you'll see when I explain in a minute and you also need to have on hand some non-alcoholic flavored seltzer. I like this shop right brand because they're cheap right now I see I still think they're a 40 cents a liter which makes about two drinks give or take maybe a little more than two drinks in this recipe and of course you're going to need a scale you don't need it if you're really an expert and you can do it all by eye but I recommend for the first few drinks that you use a kitchen scale because you're going to weigh instead of a measuring cup it's just a faster way of making the drink instead of pouring in a in a measuring cup and so on because some some of the measurements are going to be very little and it's good to have a scale weight and next I like using 32 ounce ball jars or mason jars they're called but you know fill it up with a certain amount of ice not all the way depending on whether your drinks are previously refrigerated you can fill it about a quarter or a third of the way with ice that's you can adjust that to your preferences later on and and that's it and basically what I like to do is I add ginger powder like a half a teaspoon of ginger powder a quarter teaspoon I forget how much that's and I put a squirt of lemon juice in before I put the the ice jar on the scale and what you do is you put the ice jar on the scale and tar it out or in my case I just turn the scale on with the the weight already on and it zeros out right in the beginning but what if you know how to use a kitchen scale you tar it out and it resets it to zero and then it then it starts counting everything that you add in so what I like to do is I put a I put the drink on the scale and I put 12 milliliters between 12 and 13 it's actually 12 and a half but my scale doesn't measure that low 12 to 13 milliliters of vodka and that's one quarter of an airline bottle yes you only use a little bit and then next what I do is I put in six ounces or half a can of smirnoff spiked sparkling seltzer I picked that because the smirnoff spiked sparkling seltzer with the exception of the pina colada which is the king of the hill still it's not the most flavorful drink and now I mean it's but it's a good drink because it's a very low carb one half a gram of carbs per half can and it's a good buzz it's a nice buzz so the next thing I put in is one quarter of one can of crook and marker low carb seltzer they use a rithritol to sweeten that drink and it you can one can straight is ridiculously sweet it's overly sweet for people like us at least maybe some people like that level of sweetness especially if they're used to eating a lot of sugar in their life but anyway I put I determined after much experimentation that a quarter can was plenty of flavor to make your your refreshing summer cocktail not too overwhelming or not too sweet tasting so that works out to about 2.8 ounces or if you want to you know I highly recommend you just keep the scale on milliliters it's about 70 milliliters of fluid and by the way the six ounces of smirnoff before was about 170 milliliters so you got 12 milliliters of vodka 170 milliliters of smirnoff spike sparkling seltzer and 70 milliliters of or was it 80 I think I can't remember anymore 70 or 80 oh god I can't remember I don't have my notes but anyway maybe it is 80 80 milliliters of crook and marker and then you fill the rest up with your seltzer stir it up and you're good to go and it's it's damn delicious and it works out to be the same amount of alcohol as just you drinking one can of seltzer around four and a half percent alcohol per 12 ounces but when you consider that it's a mason jar filled with ice and other seltzer it cuts the alcohol down to about half so my guess is and that includes the ice melt in the process my guess is it's about a two and a half percent or two and a quarter percent alcohol drink and it's very refreshing you can drink so you can all you really need is two cans of smirnoff spike sparkling seltzer that makes four drinks one can of crook and marker that also makes four drinks and one little airline bottle of western sun vodka I recommend and your ice and maybe two liters of other seltzer is all you need and like I said lemon juice or any other kind of additive you want to put in there but extremely refreshing and four four will be good for a for a long afternoon or a nice evening drinking that's a gallon of fluid that's a supposing you don't let all the ice melt maybe it's 110 ounces of fluid that's enough to keep most average human beings quenched and satisfied but it truly is something especially if you have a nice pool or a nice patio with the umbrellas and nice tables it it's a great drink to enjoy this summer and it won't mess you up four won't mess you up I should do a little footnote here that's my body weight I'm 200 pounds your own little alcohol barometer will vary I mean I wouldn't recommend 100 pound girl drink four of them definitely going to wreck them and also be very careful and and try not to to use more than the recommended amount of vodka that I suggested 12 milliliters per drink because if you use more you will easily over drink and it won't hit you until it's too late and you're going to feel pretty woozy and crappy the next day if you drink too much vodka mixed in this I've had that happen to me more than once twice to be exact and I actually was almost useless the following day if I I think I tripled the amount of vodka I was putting like 30 something 30 or 40 milliliters in I almost doubled the alcohol of my drink I was drinking like six or eight percent drinks and I drank six of them and I was a wreck so if you care about throttling your alcohol you really need to stay in control of how much you put in it because that vodka that vodka can really cause trouble for you but this is a good drink let me try it please someone at least one person please try it it's a it's a fun drink to enjoy and it's not expensive and that's it I hope you enjoy your weekend