Comments on: Mixology Monday: Limit One

By: Paul Jenkins

Paul Jenkins — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 02:49:05 +0000

This is cool. I am definitely bookmarking this recipe. The next time I need to get blasted in a southerly, genteel kind of way, I’ll be back. Looks delicious and that it’ll get the job done

By: BLASTINGBOB

BLASTINGBOB — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 09:15:44 +0000

We served a quite similar recipe at my sister’s engagement announcement party in 1962! My recollection is that everyone enjoyed the punch and got home safely, but the next day we received quite a few calls asking how we had
spiked the punch (the wallop was apparently delayed!). I recollect that I made the punch about three weeks in advance of the party. I also recollect that th first several days of “steeping”, it percolated rather vigorously.

Several days later we served the remaining punch (without champagne)over racks and it was again a hit. I originally found the recipe in a used bartender guide in Brooklyn and subsequently lost it. Glad to have found a newer version.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 01:02:44 +0000

This was the drink served each year at the General Robert E. Lee birthday party (celebrated on the weekend prior to January 19th). As I recall, a large crock was placed under the dining room table, sometime around Halloween, and all of the ingredients would be placed into it. It would just sit there; then on the Sunday before Robert E. Lee’s birthday the party would take place. The dining room table would be loaded down with food, the punch would be served from under the table and the next day nobody would go to work.

By: Nichele

Nichele — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 01:57:07 +0000

I’m from Savannah as well and have long known of this recipe. I’ve made wine from kits for the last two years and decided to employ that equipment for my first CAP batch, which happened to be the same Pirate’s House recipe above. I made it in honor of my sister’s 40th birthday in December. I vacuum marinated the fruit (I used crushed pineapple to speed up the process and strained it later, then marinated pineapple chunks in vacuum-sealed Mason jars for serving and snacking)and vacuum-steeped the tea. Once it was all mixed, I let it sit for about a month. It turned out great! The party was on Dec. 4 and on Dec. 5 we went to brunch at the Pirate’s House. I ordered the $12 goblet of CAP (you get to keep the goblet). It tasted the same, although me and the crew liked mine better, partly because of the spiffy labels a friend made. Mine was also much clearer.

I’ve documented the process on my Facebook page. Friend me (Nichele Hoskins) and have a look!

By: Sammy

Sammy — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:26:29 +0000

Ive got some sweet party tips from this. Halloween is going be a good one! Cheers

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:55:21 +0000

Chatham Artillery Punch is the least known but probably best of all Punch drinks. Growing up in Savannah, GA prior to Al Gore inventing the Internet the ingredients of this drink were not discovered very easily, in fact it was quite a seceret until someone posted the ingredients over Gore’s Internet. Our recipe was from one of the groups ancestor who was actually in the Chatham Artillery. We had heard stories of C-A-P over the years and the adult laughter when recounting events of C-A-P being served at their functions. Naturally, as we came of age we decided to make a “secret batch”. Secret because we were not quite old enough to buy the alcohol ingredients on our own. After our group pilfered our parents supply closets and pantrys…we had what we needed to start the process of mixing and blending. The most fun was in making this interesting brew which we would later come to closely associate with NUCLEAR FISSION! As this was a recipe for several gallons in quantity our biggest problem was in finding enough containers to store and age the brew. Our solution was to use all of Mom’s plentiful supply of Tupperware containers to carry us through the 2 month long aging process (we figured the longer the better). We succesfully stored or more correctly “Hid” the freshly concocted mix under the kitchen counter in a corner cabinet that was used for serving pieces used only on holidays. At the end of the long awaited fermentation period we declared a party would be held to celebrate the “coming out” of our Chatham Artillery Punch.

The Party: OMG! What a Hit the Punch was! Yes, it more than lived up to it’s reputation. It will cause strange behaviour unlike one would assume from a drink containing alcohol. One group of normally “Too cool for school” girl friends started making animal noises and actually communicated with each other as each spoke in a different animal tongue. Ever heard a Dog communicate with a Cockatoo as a lamb made comments on the conversation? Then there was the guy that didn’t like his hair (we never knew this) and exited the bathroom with Baby powder caked all over the top of his head. Wow, what a party and with all this strange behaviour none of it was aggressive, in fact the C-A-P brew had a calming effect on the group… the strange behaviour of that night years ago always comes up in conversation when we all get together back home over the Holidays. The funniest recollection being Mom’s search for her missing Tupperware and how perplexed she was when it mysteriously showed up right where it belonged two months later.

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:12:42 +0000

Fred,

If you must use catawba, use rose. I used it for authenticity. (And also because it is cheap.)
I would recommend instead that you consider just a decent, regular old Rosé. Be sure you drink some first, and would be willing to drink it straight.
Please let me know how it comes out!
Cheers.

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:05:49 +0000

I’m planning to make this recipe, but in looking for catawba wine, I’ve come across three different kinds: red, white, and rose. Which one is appropriate here? Thanks!

By: Kaiser Penguin » Blog Archive » MxMo “Limit One” Round-Up #2

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:36:57 +0000

[...] Doug’s Chatham Artillery Punch [...]

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:07:20 +0000

Gotta tell you (and by you I mean all of you): You want to make this stuff. It is really good, so smooth as to be evil, and fun to talk about.
But unless you are going to bottle it, it flat out takes more effort than it is worth.
Plan your next party a week or so in advance, and lay in the sleeping bags.

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:45:19 +0000

I’m just reading it now. I will redeem you, as your post is first next round. I really want to make this… and really don’t. Not because it doesn’t sound tasty, but because it’s like a Thomas Keller recipe! Oh wait, I make his intricate crap all the time.

I have no excuse.

Maybe I’d be better off asking you to mail me some

Well done, sir.

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:23:08 +0000

Thanks, Dr. B!
As something of a Anglican myself, I can attest that Anglican Harumphing is often, perhaps usually, followed by a hic! or two.
As for this concoction, Kaiser calls me out in the first part of his MxMo post for supposedly being against Drinks of Intricate Construction. Perhaps he hasn’t read this yet….

By: Dr. Bamboo

Dr. Bamboo — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:12:29 +0000

Great post…well done sir!

And I think you have clearly won the prize for sheer volume and killing power with this recipe.

By the way, “Anglican Harumphing” is my new favorite phrase.