Rachel’s Raquette Lake Elixir

What is Raquette Lake Elixir? Have you heard of it? It’s known as the Adirondack’s most famous Bloody Mary mix!

“Nothing beats a pitcher of Bloody Marys when you have guests at your camp or home. But who wants to go to the store to pick up the 8+ ingredients you need to whip them up yourself?? Relax. We’ve got you covered. We’ll bring the fire, you bring the ice.” (rlelixir.com)

Rachel’s Raquette Lake Elixir uses fresh & wholesome ingredients to produce its thick and full-bodied spicy Bloody Mary mix. It’s packaged in resealable glass bottles that are guaranteed for 2 years (unopened). Once opened the bottle must be stored in the refrigerator and will last 3 weeks.

It’s said that this elixir creates great Bloody Marys, but that’s not all: it can also be used in other recipes too! Check out the product’s website for some suggestions.

Want to try it? (If you already have, then share your opinion in the comment section below!)

Where can you get Rachel’s Raquette Lake Elixir?

Raquette Lake Elixir is available locally in bars, restaurants, grocery stores, convenience stores, gift shops, and liquor stores in New York State through several distributors. It will also be available throughout Vermont as of November 23rd.

See the full list of retailers and restaurants/bars that serve Rachel’s Raquette Lake Elixir on the product’s website: rlelixir.com.

Also, if Raquette Lake Elixir is not in someone’s favorite liquor store they can always make a request through Opici Family Distributing, they distribute to the 46 counties north of Westchester county in New York.

How did Raquette Lake Elixir come to be?

Rachel explained that the way she got started in the whole Bloody Mary business was through her experience growing up in her family’s dinner boat business — Raquette Lake Navigation — on the WW Durant on Raquette Lake. While bar-tending on the boat she developed her own Bloody Mary mix that became extremely popular with customers. She decided to start bottling her mix and applied for a scheduled process from Cornell University that allowed her to begin producing her Bloody Mary mix in the Raquette Lake Navigation’s commercial kitchen.

Demand grew and she was unable to keep up with production on her own, so she began a relationship with a processing facility in central New York that now produces and bottles her exact recipe. That allows her to devote time to the marketing and distribution of the mix that she has named “Rachel’s Raquette Lake Elixir.”

See the full story and learn more on her website: rlelixir.com. You can also follow what’s new with Raquette Lake Elixir through social media on Twitter at @adkbloodymary and on Facebook.

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Passionate about reading and writing stories, Katie Shepard enjoys discovering more about her home while writing and editing for Essex on Lake Champlain. Katie graduated from SUNY Plattsburgh in 2011 where she studied English literature, philosophy, and Asian studies. Her first book Essex, New York Architecture: A Doodler's Field Guide was published in 2015. Connect with her on Twitter, Facebook, or at Linked.in. Or email her at katie [@] essexeditions [dot] com.