DNA Cocktail
November 10th, 2004One of the highlights for me at the PAL Digital Science Lab for Wellcome/NESTA I attended recently was an evening spent sampling a couple of Dean Maddon’s cocktails of nucleic acids. I’m pleased to note that the recipe is available online. Best served in a test tube, obviously.
January 27th, 2005 at 10:19 pm
Beautiful stuff - love the vintage-style pdf.
And did it actually taste any good? Or was that kind of academic?
January 28th, 2005 at 9:40 am
Yes, it was good. Probably not quite good enough to justify the effort involved in preparing it yourself though…
June 26th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
Hi Rob,
Can you help me, please? I have promised to serve this fantastic cocktail for 130 colleagues on Friday 29th of June - crazy thing !! :)
1) Do you know if the it significant that the pineapple juice has to be freshly pressed from pineapples (in a machine), or is it sufficient with pineapple juice from the supermarked?
2) The strawberry and pineapple purée tends to sink into the gin. Do you have any suggestions to improvement? [tomorrow I will try with frozen strawberries].
Thank you very much in advance.
June 27th, 2007 at 9:48 am
@Anne: I’ve never actually made this myself, but the recipe does suggest that the pineapple juice needs to be fresh “as protease activity is required to degrade the histones associated with the D.N.A.” :-) I’m sure the sinking issue is less of an issue if you’re using the suggested test tubes or similar (I think we drank it from little plastic specimen bottles). Good luck!