Demitri's Bloody Mary Mix

If you are looking for a different way to spice up your college football parties -- either at home or at your bar -- Demitri’s Bloody Mary Seasoning will provide your guests with a unique taste.

The seasoning, which comes in a variety of flavors, makes having a home-made Bloody Mary as simple as possible. Just add tomato juice, and you are done. For bartenders, it...

Bloody Marys have always been one of my favorite cocktails to make at home, but they're not one of the best to order out at a bar. Flavors can be inconsistent, either too much tomato juice and not enough spice, or they're just jam-packed full of salt and overflowing  with what seems like a garden salad sprouting out the mouth of the glass.

In 1989, Demitri Pallis was tending bar in Seattle. Customers at the New Orleans Restaurant, a jazz club settled comfortably in Pioneer Square near the Seahawks football stadium, loved bloody Marys as much as Pallis loved to make them. “I really loved making scratch Bloody Marys, it was one of our house specialty drinks,” Pallis says. “The problem was...

Demitri Pallis is living every bartender’s dream — taking his own version of a popular drink to the national market.

After 22 years of perfecting his bloody mary mix, expanding his product line and slowly building his Seattle company, Gourmet Mixes Inc., Pallis says he’s poised to break into mixology’s mainstream.

I love breakfast food. In fact, at my house, we often have breakfast for dinner and cook an assortment of waffles, French toast, omelets, bacon and grits. And, my love for the morning meal doesn’t stop at the food. Morning cocktails are regularly enjoyed — whether it means mixing up Bellini’s, mimosas or Irish coffee. However, my breakfast/brunch beverage of choice will always be the Bloody Mary.

Demitri’s Bloody Mary Seasoning was created by former bartender Demitri Pallis in Seattle in 1988. Created to provide bartenders with high-quality drink mixes that are delicious, fast and consistent...

I usually like to keep my Bloody Marys simple. A dash or two of Tabasco and Worcestershire, a squeeze of lemon, and a sprinkling of salt and pepper are all the seasonings I need. I shy away from prefab mixes - why buy a jug of specially seasoned tomato juice when it's so easy to stir up something yourself?

You know at a glance that Demitri's is not your everyday Bloody Mary mix. The color and thickness of A1 steak sauce, Demitri's is not a "just add vodka" mix. You need tomato juice (and lots of it): A mere 2 ounces of the mix will flavor a full quart of tomato juice or V8. The vials these mixes come in are reminiscent of a bottle of soy sauce, and they also come in convenient pouches, perfect for flavoring a pitcher of Bloodies at a time without having to refrigerate the leftover mix.