Hangman's Blood

Hangman's Blood is a drink first described by Richard Hughes in his 1929 novel, A High Wind in Jamaica. According to Hughes:

Hangman's blood... is compounded of rum, gin, brandy, and porter... Innocent (merely beery) as it looks, refreshing as it tastes, it has the property of increasing rather than allaying thirst, and so once it has made a breach, soon demolishes the whole fort ^[1]

In the 1960s novelist Anthony Burgess described its preparation as follows:

Into a pint glass [568 mL], doubles [i.e., 50 mL measures] of the following are poured: gin, whisky, rum, port and brandy. A small bottle of stout is added and the whole topped up with champagne... It tastes very smooth, induces a somewhat metaphysical elation, and rarely leaves a hangover.^[2]

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References

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Absinthe	Corpse Reviver #2 Death in the Afternoon Earthquake Green Russians Green Vesper The Modernista Moloko Plus Sazerac
Beer	Black and Tan Black Velvet Boilermaker Brass Monkey Hangman's Blood Irish Car Bomb Michelada Porchcrawler Sake Bomb Shandy Snakebite U-Boot
Brandy or cognac	B & B The Blenheim Brandy Manhattan Brandy Sour (Cyprus) Brandy Sour/Brandy Daisy Chicago Cocktail Curacao Punch Four Score Hennchata Incredible Hulk Jack Rose Nikolaschka Orgasm Panama Piscola Savoy Affair Savoy Corpse Reviver Tom and Jerry Zombie
Cachaça	Batida Caju Amigo Leite de Onça Quentão Rabo-de-galo Royce
Champagne	Black Velvet Buck's Fizz Kir Royal
Gin	20th Century Alexander Bijou Bloodhound Bronx Gibson Gimlet Gin and tonic Gin buck (a Buck variant) Gin pahit Gin Sour Hanky-Panky Joker The Last Word Lime Rickey Lorraine Marjorama Mickey Slim My Fair Lady Old Etonian Pall Mall Paradise Pegu Pimm's Cup (incl. Nos. 1, 3, 6, and variants) Pink Gin Pink Lady Royal Arrival Salty Dog Shirley Temple Black Tom Collins White Lady or Delilah Wolfram
Ouzo	Ouzini
Rum	Blue Hawaii Brass Monkey Bumbo (also called a Bombo or Bumboo) Bushwacker Caribou Lou Cojito Corn N' Oil Culto A La Vida El Presidente Fish House Punch Flaming Dr Pepper Flaming Volcano Fluffy Critter The Goldeneye Grog Gunfire Havana Cooler Hurricane Jack's Shadow Jagertee Macuá Painkiller Royal Bermuda Cocktail Rum Swizzle Staten Island Ferry Sundowner Ti' Punch Tom and Jerry Tschunk Yellow Bird Zombie
Sake	Ginza Mary Sake Bomb Tamagozake
Tequila	Bananarita Bloody Aztec Chimayó Cocktail El Toro Loco Patron and Redbull Juan Collins Matador Paloma Slammer Royale or Tequila Slammer The T.J. Tequila and Tonic Tequila Mockingbird Tequila Sour Torito Tequila Cocktail Two kids in A Cup
Vodka	Agent Orange Apple Martini or Appletini Astro pop Batida Bay Breeze BLT cocktail Blue Lagoon Bull Shot Caesar Caipivodka Cape Cod Chi-Chi Colombia Fizzy apple cocktail Flirtini Gimlet The Goldeneye Greyhound Harrogate Nights Hi-fi Ice Pick Kensington Court Special Kremlin Colonel Lemon Drop Lime Rickey Link Up Mudslide Orange Tundra Paralyzer Red Lotus Red Russian Rose Kennedy Cocktail Salmiakki Koskenkorva Salty Dog Vodka Gimlet Vodka Martini or Kangaroo. Vodka McGovern Vodka Sundowner Vodka Sunrise Wassa World White Russian Woo Woo Yorsh
Whisky	Amber Moon Blue Blazer Bobby Burns Bourbon Lancer Brooklyn Churchill Farnell Four Horsemen Jack and Coke Jungle Juice Lynchburg Lemonade Missouri Mule Nixon Rob Roy Seven and Seven Three Wise Men Ward 8 Whisky Mac
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