#fandom cocktail

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Do you think any amateur could handle a drink like this?

Amour-propre Effervesce | Fizz, Floral, Fandom

Suletta wouldn’t drink, but Guel Jeturk would despite, imo, probably not enjoying the taste of alcohol. However, there’s a classic cocktail that's PERFECT for that -- the Ramos Gin Fizz, which I retemplated to include both an interesting purple sweetener and several layers of floral flavors including rose, with a glorious fluffy crown worthy of the Dilanza’s feather. The floral layers and variety of aromatics feels distinctly appropriate in G Witch, especially for a character like Guel. 

However, the Ramos Gin Fizz isn’t for the Miorines of the cocktail world; it requires some careful prep, and takes a lot of upper arm strength and time shaking. So much like Guel had some... mechanical assistance imposed on him, we’re going to use a great hack established by famous cocktail bar Death & Co. We are going to use a whipped cream dispenser and force-nitro the cocktail to emulsify and foam up, without the hellish amount of shaking. However,  it’s important to follow these instructions carefully.

Note: Alternate creams/vegan foaming agents may not provide the desired effect, due to the importance of the proteins in both the cream and the egg white. If you want to make this a mocktail, you can use your favorite tea in place of gin and omit the creme de violette. 

SPECIAL EQUIPMENT: A Whipped-Cream Dispenser and Nitrous Oxide cartridges(8grm). These don’t need to be industrial grade, iSi whippers -- As long as its not the style marketed as the “Easywhip” with the spout right on top, look below for an example of the shape it should be. These can be bought online, or at culinary supply stores, or your local tobacco/vape shop or adult novelty store. Please DO NOT POINT TOWARDS SELF OR OTHERS WHILE SCREWING IN THE GAS CANISTER, AND ALIGN THE THREADING ON THE CANISTER HOLDER CAREFULLY TO MINIMIZE RISK OF VENTING COLD GAS FROM AN IMPROPER PUNCTURE. 

Step 1: Place serving glass in freezer. 

Step 2. Place the following ingredients in your whipped cream dispenser. 

2 fl oz or 60ml Gin 

0.5 fl oz or 15 ml Lemon Juice

0.5 fl oz or 15 ml Lime Juice

1 Dropper Bittermens Orange Cream Citrate*

.75ml Old Forester Hummingbird Rose & Citrus Bitters [or 2 dashes preferred floral bitters]

0.33 fl oz or 10ml Creme de Violette

1 fl oz or 30ml Blueberry Puree Syrup (I used Reál) 

1 Egg White or 20ml liquid pasteurized egg white

0.75 fl oz or 22.5 ml Heavy Cream

1 drop Orange Blossom Water

1 drop Rosewater

*You can substitute 1 dash orange bitters[Angostura Orange preferable] and 3 drops vanilla extract if necessary or just omit

Have glass ready to receive. 

Add a couple ice cubes and screw on cap tightly. Take 1 8 gram nitrous oxide charger. Common brands include Whip-Its, Bestwhip, and Leland. Insert charger into holder and screw in until you hear it vent into the dispenser.  Give it a few gentle shakes. 

Add about half an ounce of chilled seltzer or soda water to the bottom of frozen glass.  Turn whip cream dispenser so spout is directly facing down and gently -- GENTLY -- press the lever to release. It should take about a minute or so to mostly fill the glass.

After filling or mostly filling the glass, let sit for 2-4 minutes, ideally in freezer. Then make small divot  in foam and slowly pour in about .5-1 ounces or so of soda water. The foam should rise and not collapse if properly made and a straw inserted should stand up straight. 

Lastly, if you desire, as a little nod to Guel’s iconic look, use an atomizer or spray bottle to spritz Peychaud’s bitters on top of the foam. Serve with a spoon to enjoy all the foam. 

Credit is due to Death & Co for originating the nitro-Gin-Fizz, David Wondrich’s Imbibe for all I could ever want or need to know about Fizzes, and this Cocktail Contessa Mocktail for the blueberry syrup inspiration. 

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Hey, legal-drinking-aged kids!  I have another kylux cocktail recipe for you that is long overdue because I read the fic that inspired it months ago, but I had to put a little extra thought into this cocktail.  The fic I speak of is In A Place Where No One Appeared by @gefionne.  It took me a bit longer to develop this cocktail because the fic takes place primarily on Arkanis and there are many mentions of wine throughout the fic, so it seemed pretty obvious that this cocktail needed to include wine.  I’m sort of a purist when it comes to wine, so I don’t usually put it in cocktails because I feel like it should be appreciated on its own, but I did some research and experimentation to find flavors that blend well with wine, and this is what I came up with.

In A Place Where No One Appeared

Part 1

4 oz chardonnay white wine

2 oz club soda

1 oz vodka

Part 2

1 oz amaretto

2 oz organic tart cherry juice

Chill the chardonnay, club soda, and tart cherry juice beforehand.  Mix part 1 in a large wine glass.  Mix part 2 in a separate glass then add it to the glass, pouring it over the back of a spoon to direct it down the side of the glass.  Part 2 should pour in below part 1 with a clear separation between the layers, though part of part 1 will blend into part 2 which is fine!  The drink should be sharper and stronger at the top and then it gets sweeter the more you drink, to reflect the way the relationship develops throughout the fic. ♥

Enjoy, and drink responsibly!

[drinkacefahz]

A drink is never decided by quality of the ingredients alone. Nor by the skill of the bartender, alone. The result itself is the only truth!

Suletta Smash | 0% ABV*  |  Smashes, Low/No Citrus, Low/Zero ABV/Mocktail, Long Drinks 

In shaker, combine

3-5 torn basil leaves (mint also works if you can’t get basil)

1.33 fl oz or 40ml Tomato Shrub (see below) 

4 fl oz or 120ml Calpico Original Flavor

.5 fl oz or 15ml Bay Leaf infused syrup

Shake together and doublestrain through fine mesh strainer to get the little bits of herb out. Strain into double old fashioned glass with large rock of ice. 

For presentation, take a small amount of cheap, bright-red storebought grenadine and sink it down the side of the glass to get the ombre. 

Top carefully with a small amount of seltzer. Then, pull a lemon twist over the top(discard this piece) and dash a float of Peychaud’s or other Creole-style bitters over top. You can cut the iconic ‘v’ garnish and place before or after doing this depending on what kind of visual effect you want -- clean, or a little splattered. A mix of Angostura and Peychaud’s also works well.

*Note that while most bitters brands contain alcohol, the amount in a float is less than a teaspoon. it’s roughly as alcoholic as using vanilla extract in whipped cream is in the grand scheme of things. However, you can also use 0% ABV brands that use a different base for their suspensions like Fee Brothers, who I believe makes a Creole-style bitter. I’m not sure how it compares colorwise to Peychaud’s though.  

Tomato Shrub recipe: Macerate equal amounts of chopped-up tomato of choice and sugar for 12-24 hours, then strain out solids. Per every cup(8 fl oz) of liquid you get, use about 2/3rds cup(5.3 fl oz) white balsamic or champagne vinegar. Bottle and store in fridge. This will last a pretty long time if you don’t open it frequently. I made this batch in August, opened it only a once or twice and it’s’ doing peachy in January. Well, tomato-y. Preserving fresh products in just such a manner as this is probably important in the colonies of Gundam & places like Asticassia!  

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For the end of year I’d like to feature a drink I’m particularly proud of, as I made it for a fan anthology called Shots of Gold! A Haikyu Bartending fanzine.  A fresh, sweet twist on a a international classic, the Capirinha, perfectly suited for Haikyuu’s protagonist Hinata Shoyo as he enters the professional volleyball world. Here, I feature one of four recipes I contributed to the book, as printed and as presented. 

Ninja Caipirinha | ABV: 32%  | Yield: 2.80 fl oz | International Classic, Built In Glass, Fandom Cocktails

Caipirinha is arguably the most famous drink of Brazil. Using Cachaça, a funky liquor blending spirits made of sugar cane juice and sometimes other spirits. Training and playing in such a hot climate as Rio de Janeiro, internationally-acclaimed volleyball player Hinata Shoyo, better known to some fans as “Ninja” picked up a taste for them – and he’s particularly fond of this mandarin-hued twist on this basic yet iconic drink.

Ingredients

One half small mandarin or tangerine, cut into quarters

0.5 fl oz or 15ml lime juice 

2-3 teaspoons demerara, turbinado, or raw cane sugar* 

2 fl oz or 60ml Cachaça (Preferably Leblon or Novo Fogo, but there are hundreds – explore what’s available local to you! There’s no wrong Cachaça for a Caipirinha.)

In the rocks glass you serve it in, muddle the mandarin, lime juice, and sugar. To muddle, press a wooden or plastic muddler, or if you don’t have one, the  thick end of a heavy spoon, firmly to release the oils in the peels. Then, add Cachaça to the glass, and finish with either cubed or crushed ice. Stir. 

The perfect drink after a long day, whether you’ve been playing on the court or the beach.  

*If necessary, you can substitute about 0.3-0.5 fl oz[10-15ml] of simple syrup.

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Pesante Giace la Corona | ABV: 14.37% | Yield: 7.91 fl oz |  Spritz, Brunch, Wine-based, Built in Glass, Fandom Cocktail, Themed Cocktail 

1.33 fl oz or 40ml Cocchi Americano Bianco

1.5 fl oz or 45ml  Still Semi-sweet Mead

0.66 fl oz or 20ml St. Germain  

3 fl oz or 90ml Prosecco

1ml Old Forester Hummingbird Bitters or other floral/citrus bitters [1ml is approximately 2-3 dashes] 

2 dashes Angostura or Aromatic Bitters . 

 Lemon peel ‘leaf’ and mint for garnish

Build in glass and stir -- gently -- over cracked ice. 

for the garnish, I like to cut a wide swath of peel and cut with a small knife it to resemble a petal or leaf, like it came from the Sundrop itself. In this presentation I also added one of the dried peels, to indicate the flower’s magic being used up to save her life.

Here, long overdue for the season, a perfect Spritz to capture Rapunzel’s mother. The classic Italian aperitivo such as the Americano or the Aperol or Campari spritz is popular with many women, and as an added bonus, Queen Arianna seems to be implied to be from a fantasyland Europe kingdom closer to the  Mediterranean region, possibly even Italy. Yes, Italy canonically has to exist somehow in this show, there’s explicit references to the language of Italian. However, I wanted to keep the motifs our previous drinks related to the royal family of Corona use -- so our bitterness comes mainly from Cocchi Bianco, which I discussed in the first Corpse Reviver riff I did for Varian. Then we carry through the Sundrop-inspired sweeter mead and elderflower liqueur, and the acidity comes from the prosecco. Very easy, eminently drinkable. 

The name, translated, means “Heavy Lies the Crown”.

Oh, and if you can make or purchase some clear ice to use, i’d go with that -- A queen deserves flawless gems, and as great writer Mark Twain put it, “in my time, ice was jewelry; none but the rich could wear it.”

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Honestly, there’s probably going to be a pass at this with a different template, but I like the Corpse Reviver and wanted to design a drink highlighting exclusively Japanese ingredients. The Midori makes it feel a little throwback too, appropriate for a Showa-era show. No real joke this time, just a Friendly Reminder you can watch Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju and you really really should. 

Tekerettsu no Paa/Shinigami

ABV 23.86% | Yield: 3.75 ounces | Equal Parts, Corpse Reviver, Classic w a twist, Up Drinks, Japanese Ingredients

22.5ml or .75oz Japanese Gin [Read Note]  

22.5ml or .75oz Midori 

22.5ml or .75oz Japanese Bermutto 

15ml or .5oz lemon juice 

8ml or .25oz sudachi juice 

dash or spritz absinth verte

 Rinse glass with absinthe. Shake all other ingredients and strain, garnish with lemon twist or maraschino cherry. 

Regarding Japanese Gin: Nikka Coffey is my suggestion for those really accustom to the London Dry style, its juniper is similarly punchy. Angelica is common much as it is in American gins. Generally, the most defining other botanicals of the modern Japanese Gin category include citrus like yuzu, kabosu, amanatsu, and herbs or spices like sansho pepper or shiso. Tea, plum or persimmon may also feature. However, while a few use it, proper Japanese Gin largely will NOT emphasize one particular flavoring: Sakura, or cherry blossoms. there are brands on the market pretending to be Japanese -- heavy use of cherry blossom images, Japanese-ish sounding names, we’ve seen this before with fake Japanese Whisky -- but their flavors are completely wrong for this. Similar botanicals keep showing up in each of these ingredients in part to see how  well they harmonize -- if they have the right “voice” together. I haven’t tried every Japanese gin, but commonly found ones like Roku[which contains sakura leaf as well as flower, teas, and sansho and yuzu -- by Suntory and 135 East Hyogo Dry by Kaikyo also work quite well. 

On the other specialty ingredients... 

Midori is commonly looked down upon as an ingredient, but it’s got some remarkable versatility from its tartness and slightly juicy flavor -- in my opinion, most cheap melon schnapps from the big brands and Spirits Direct labels aren’t as good, because instead of mimicking flavors from a fruit, the knockoff is just trying to mimic Midori, making a lot of them too flat or sweet. Midori, of course, is extremely easy to find in most countries that sell Beam-Suntory products. 

Oka Kura Bermutto is a somewhat like a Sake Vermouth. It is junmai sake fortified with rice shochu and infused with botanicals indigenous to Japan. It is produced on the island of Kyushu. It includes some of the botanticals the modern Japanese Gin tends to contain, as well as yomogi, which is a wormwood, cousins to the Artemesia species traditionally found in vermouth and absinthe. I find it to have a very unique sharpness to it which makes it an interesting sub out for the quininized wine in the original Reviver. There’s really nothing else on the market like this. 

Something I like to do to incorporate flavors of citrus that it’s harder to get my hands on by having the bottled juice from it “ride along” with some fresh squeezed lemon or lime. I do this sometimes with key lime in a early 20th century drink for example. Sudachi is a small bitter green citrus from Japan, and I think it works wonderfully here. Bottled sudachi can be found on specialty retailers like yummybazaar. 

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Čapkova Kašna [The Čapek Fountain]  

 “It’s not the end of the drink, but you can see it from here.”

42.50% ABV | Yield: 2.94 fl oz | Themed Drinks, Fandom Cocktails, Improved Whiskey Cocktail, Pre-Prohibition

2oz or 60ml Rye* 

.5oz or 15ml Becherovka 

.25oz or 8ml honey syrup 

1 dash Peychauds bitters

1 dash Angostura bitters

Stir just until chilled

Rinse chilled rocks glass with Absinthe

Strain

Twist lemon peel 

Even if you never asked for this, I think you’ll finish this drink for sure. 

Čapek is both a location near where Adam Jensen’s apartment is, and named in honor of the author who wrote Rossum’s Universal Robots, which also is referred to repeatedly in the game. It seemed a subtle, transhumanist way to allude to this playing off the Improved Cocktail format

*Jensen's favorite drink is started to be "Nye's Rye", which is noted “may not contain actual rye”. This is a bit of a joke about how relatively lax Canadian whiskey regulations are, but also meant that I was comfortable using anything I felt was a strong enough rye spice note, because the peanuts and caramel notes of bourbons don’t suit Jensen. This bottle is a blend of Maryland Rye and MGP-produced 95% rye mashbill bottled at cask strength, so its pretty boozy. This bottle is about 56.1% ABV. Becherovka is from Karlsbad [see The Lost Girl for a little more elaboration], replacing what is traditionally maraschino or Curaçao, and it (and absinthe) can be found in Mankind Divided. He also seems to enjoy sweets going by all his cereal, so a slightly heavy pour of syrup, honey holding up against this strong rye and synergizing with the Becherovka. 

Fee Bros Black Walnut Bitters, Cardamon or Aromatic Bittes from companies like Dr Adam or the Bitter Truth, or Bogarts Bitters would also be suitable, if you like. 

[marzarelo]

heyyyyyyy (legal drinking-aged) kids!  I started a new sub-blog just for fandom related cocktail recipes.  I may post other food-related fandom recipes there later, but it’s main focus is fandom-based alcoholic cocktails.  The url is @tipsy-fan if you want to check it out! ♥