Jodi on 
Erin on 
Eric on 
Bill Evans on 
So… after my lovely stagette dinner, we went to a lounge for drinks, then returned to Katherine’s house where the guys were having their stag.
They boisterously welcomed us back, and proceeded to wax poetic about a drink they had been imbibing.
“It’s the awesomest shooter ever! It tastes sooo good,” said Torsten, as Tim poured a shooter of Jack Daniels — and a shooter of pickle juice.
Yeah, that would stop most people in their tracks.
Not me. Convinced by Torsten’s (in hindsight) terrible acting, I stepped up to the table.
Let me just say, that after Jack Daniels, pickle juice tastes pretty good. And I’m convinced pickle juice is the reason I was feeling (relatively) less rough the next morning compared to everyone else.
Tim — who hoarded pickle juice in the fridge, just for us — says he learned of this concoction from a house party. This article was the only thing I could find online about where it might have come from.
I can’t vouch for pickle juice and hangovers, but a few months ago pickle juice really helped me out when my morning sickness was at its worst. I’d take a little container of it to work and whenever I got queasy I’d have a sip. It didn’t make me feel 100%, but it helped and I will forever be thankful.
I can totally vouch for both the pickle juice, and the fact that it’s all over Russia.
However, most Russians are eating/drinking barrel pickles, which are fermented without vinegar ala sauerkraut and are a very different kettle of fish. Now, I’m not saying you can’t make do with store bought, but if you want the real experience, grab some barrel pickles from any Russian store and try again.