Van Holten's Pickles - Real Pickle Brine Pickleback Mixer - 1 Liter - 6 Pack

If you like pickles, this is it. Enough said.

Bought for husband to help with muscle cramps. He eats the pickles and loves them but not enough juice in them . So I found this! It is a little more tart than the juice in the pickle pouch, but after his first couple drinks of it... He is very happy with it.

Taste good

flavor was not there

Great taste

If you like cucumber martinis instead of pickle martinis, then this product is for you! But if you like real pickle martinis, then please don’t waste your vodka on this - it’s truly horrible

First & only Amazon review. This pickle brine is great for Bloody Mary cocktails. Not as great as the pickle juice in the individual pickle pouches but as close as you’re gonna get. I hope they continue to work to improve to get as close to the pickle juice as they can but well done. A definite buy for Bloody Mary’s. Best bottle pickle brine out there.

I eat Van Holten pickles in a bag all the time--mostly original (blue bag) and garlic (purple bag), with an occasional sour (orange) or hot (red) pickle mixed in--and buy them mainly for the brine. I got this 6 jar version and have opened 2 of the jars so far and they both have the same taste, which is not a taste like any of the bagged pickles. It starts out tasting like the original brine, as I would have expected, since the product description doesn't mention garlic, hot or sour, but there is an off-putting aftertaste when you drink the brine straight. I can only describe it as spicy, as in a collection of spices, not a hot spicy. That spice hangs in your throat afterwards and it is not enjoyable. I would imagine that spice would be excellent as a drink mixer (I have not tried this yet), and it works great when brining chicken or pork. In other words, when you mix the brine with something else, it is excellent; but I cannot drink this brine straight and that was the reason I purchased it. I would give this two different ratings depending on usage: 1 star - drinking straight from the bottle 5 stars - mixing in drinks or brining meat However, for the same $40 price, I can get a 5-gallon bucket of pickles full of a larger quantity of brine that I do like and have the pickles to boot! It was worth purchasing once, but I will not do so again.