How To: Make the Ultimate Bloody Mary

In a blender, combine 32 ounces of tomato juice with items like peppercorns, lime juice, avocado, Tabasco, and dried mushrooms. Purée.

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Rim two tall glasses with salt and fill with ice. Add 1½ ounces of Spring44 vodka to each glass, top with Bloody Mary mix, and stir.

Garnish with your choice of olives, pickles, limes, cooked shrimp, crispy bacon, grilled asparagus, chicharrones, cheese curds, sausage, hard-boiled egg, or pickled mushrooms. Anything goes!