Five hours and 750 litres later, distillery mixes world’s biggest Caesar

Lumsden’s Last Mountain Distillery can now lay claim to a world’s biggest record — the world’s biggest vodka Caesar cocktail.

Distillery co-owner Meredith Schmidt and people from the town and area got together at the distillery on Saturday to claim the record and eclipse the previous record of 673 litres.

She got the idea for the concoction in March when giving a distillery tour to a man. They were at the vats for Last Mountain’s dill pickle vodka when he assumed that the distillery was the current record-holder for the Canadian drink.

“I just kind of looked at him blankly, and thought, ‘Is there such a thing? I need to look at this; why don’t we hold this record?’ So I looked it up,” she said while speaking on 980 CJME’s Gormley on Monday.

That led to Saturday’s pour-mix-drink-and-bottle event, which was put on in connection with the distillery’s fifth annual Caesar-fest, its customer appreciation day.

That meant gathering a lot of ingredients, Schmidt said. In total, they used 72 60-millilitre bottles of dill pickle vodka, 300 bottles of clamato juice, 20 bottles of lime juice and 18 bottles of Worcester sauce.

The 750-litre final mix is about 13 times as a big as a beer keg.

Everyone who helped out with the mix-and-pour got to taste the final product, and take home individual bottles of the mix.

“Everybody drank it and took it home in 5 1/2 hours; it was unbelievable,” she said. “People loved to take a little piece of it home with them.”

Schmidt said that now she just needs to submit the distillery’s measurements and video of the day to Guinness World Records to get the final stamp of approval to make the record official.