So what sort of mixed drink goes well with a given RPG? Please give full recipes.
Category A: real mixed drinks, such as a Cactus Rose (2 ox tequila, 1.5 oz Drambuie, 2 tsp lemon juice) for Dust Devils
Category B: invented ones! Such as "the Demon Gut" (1.5 oz sambuca, 0.5 oz tequila, drunk with lime and salt like a tequila shot) for Sorcerer
Best,
Ron
Quote from: Ron Edwards
Category A: real mixed drinks, such as a Cactus Rose (2 ox tequila, 1.5 oz Drambuie, 2 tsp lemon juice) for Dust Devils
Hell yeah! Also, if you're really, really feeling like a Devil haunted, Western scum, you can try a....
Prairie Fire: 2 oz tequila, 1-2 tsp tabasco sauce.
This drink is not for the faint of heart. Or anyone with a tongue. It did me in at my own college birthday bash. As I recall, I rocked on the bed after puking praying to "Chewbacca and the 12 apostles". Don't ask me, I was really, really drunk.
granted it's not a puppy-themed drink, but the title sounds like a prefered vehicle for KPFS characters:
Black Windowless Van
0.33 lb. Black Raspberries
0.44 lb. Vitamin C
2 tbsp. Brown Sugar
2 oz. Johnnie Walker Black Label Scotch
8 oz. Dark Rum
Drink Directions:
Blend and serve in a large glass or mug.
OR
Satan's Revenge
1/3 shot Tequila
1/3 shot Jack Daniel's
1/3 shot Goldschlager
5 - 7 drops Tabasco Sauce
Drink Directions:
Combine in sequence in shot glass, shoot.
fun topic!
-kreg
While I have never played octaNe, I feel that a "Rule of Alcohol" could fit in nicely with the Rule of Rock N' Roll.
Perhaps a prefferred mixed drink for each role?
For D&D, I have found that mead (basically honey-based wine) works extremely well. Unfortunately, I don't have a recipe for mead handy, and its not a mixed drink anyway.
SCA mead:
1 a jar of honey
2 a gallon of water
3 a lemon, in chunks
4 a chunk of ginger, in small chunks
5 a packet of like champagne yeast
Boil 1-4, skim scum. Let cool. Add 5. Put in a (clean) 1-gallon apple juice jug. Rubber band a balloon over the top. After a couple days, pour into glass carbonated water bottles with screw-on lids. After a couple weeks, drink!
Also very good for Ars Magica, especially wiggly homebrew Ars Magica.
Chill the bottles before you open 'em. I've had bottles empty themselves onto the ceiling, like wooooooosh. Then all the mead rains down again, like pitapatapitapata. It makes an enormous mess!
Despite the occassion, I feel guilty of topic drift!
-Vincent
Hey all,
Vincent, SCA mead... you're a crazy man. And that's one of the tamer drinks, if I recall correctly.
How have we missed the true ambrosia of gamers: caffeine? Jumper Cable = 2 oz Rum + Jolt. Mountain F*** = 2 oz Aftershock + Code Red. What game? Who cares! You won't, after a few of these...
There must be about a million drinks for Vampire. I forget how to make the local stuff, but here's Sangria: red wine + 1 c orange juice + 1 c lemon juice + 1/2 c sugar + 1 tsp cloves + cinnamon stick.
For White Wolf games played by Mc's everywhere, Irish Car Bomb = 2/3 pint Guiness draft + 1 oz Jameson's Irish wiskey + 1 oz Bailey's Irish cream, in that order & drink quickly.
Later,
Grant
Real mead is definitely good, if any of you guys in the US can get Lindisfarne (http://www.lindisfarne.org.uk/mead/index.htm) or Lurgashall (http://www.lurgashall.co.uk/) on import, I highly recommend both.
Ideal for roleplaying is the aptly named, Hobgoblin (a beer produced by Wychwood (http://www.wychwood.co.uk))
-Matt
It's funny you should bring this up. I always start my RPG sessions by toasting "To The Game!" and sluging down a shot. When playing D&D, I have the players respond, "To the Death!" and also take a shot if they want to. Believe it or not this was a tradition started by my mother who GMed for me when I was kid.
Anyway, I like finding drinks appropriate to current game on the table. My brief foray into Werewolf yeiled this drink:
Werewolf
Equal parts Drambuie and Jack Daniels
Stir, serve over ice.
Sadly, I have yet found a good drink for Sorcerer.
Also, if I forget to take my ceremonial shot my players ALWAYS remember and force me to do so. They claim that I am less railroady and am more generous with the Drama Dice/Fate Chips/Story Points what have you afterwards.
Jesse
Quote from: jburnekoIt's funny you should bring this up. I always start my RPG sessions by toasting "To The Game!" and sluging down a shot. When playing D&D, I have the players respond, "To the Death!" and also take a shot if they want to. Believe it or not this was a tradition started by my mother who GMed for me when I was kid.
You know, that is really cool!
Mead also goes well with Rune, especially if you have a drinking horn.
Any Pendragon recommendations? Nobilis? Unknown Armies? Just looking for ideas....
Seth Ben-Ezra
Great Wolf
Quote from: GreatWolf
Any Pendragon recommendations? Nobilis? Unknown Armies? Just looking for ideas....
Seth Ben-Ezra
Great Wolf
Unknown Armies:
The MakAttack
1. Tak an approximately half-finished soft drink (of your choice, but it should be caffeinated) from McDonald's.
2. Fill the cup the rest of the way with Ouzo.
Stuart
Quote from: ethan_greerUnfortunately, I don't have a recipe for mead handy, and its not a mixed drink anyway.
It is if you add
blood, like you're SUPPOSED to! (says the Norseman)
Actually, Mead can be breweed with a variety of additional ingredients, spices, fruits:here's a couple recipes (http://www.feri.com/dawn/mead.html).
And you can always check out Mead Made Complicated (http://www.meadmadecomplicated.org) on the science that is mead brewing.
Another Vampire drink, Assamite Blood: Mix half a shot of vodka with an equal amount of grenadine. I've never tried this; it sounds vile.
A changeling-y sorta drink I invented in High school in the 80s:
Dark Crystal
Dark rum + Crystal pepsi (proportions to taste)
Of course, it'll be hard to get crystal anything right now, much less crystal gravy. (name that non sequitur!)
Aidan
Ok, I cheat a little. These are from crazydrinks.com but they fit so well...
For
Kill Puppies for SatanDrink Name: Scooby Snack
Drink type: Shooter
Ingredients:
1 part coconut rum (I prefer Parrot Bay)
1 part melon liqueur (Midori)
splash of pineapple juice
a bunch of whip cream[/list:u]Perfect for
My Life with Master, actually makes a brain.
Drink Name: Bloody Brain
Drink type: Shooter
Ingredients:
2/3 Peach Schnapps (or Vodka)
Cream Liquer (any will do)
Grenadine
Lime Juice
3 small stirring straws
Directions:
1) Take a shot glass and fill it up 2/3 way with either Peach Schnapps or
Vodka.
2) Top off with just a little lime juice.
3) Take the three straws and place them together across the top of the shot.
Like a bridge across the top of glass.
4) Slowly pour the cream liquer VERY slowly between the straws so that what
looks like a brain forms at the botttom of the glass.
5) Finish shot off with a little Grenadine and allow it to fall to the
bottom of the glass surrounding the "BRAIN". [/list:u]
Nicotine Girls, what else?
Drink Name: Red Headed Slut
Drink type: Shooter
Ingredients:
3/4 oz. Jagermeister
3/4 oz. Peach Schnapps
1 1/2 oz. Cranberry Juice
Directions: Pour equal parts of all three in a shaker over ice, strain, and then simply pour into shot glass and shoot! You may make this a mixed drink but only put a shot of Peach Schnapps and a shot of Jagermeister in and the rest Cranberry Juice all over ice.[/list:u]For
OctaneDrink Name: Easy Rider
Drink type: shooter
Ingredients:
1/8 oz. Grand Marnier
1/8 oz. Jack Daniel's
1/8 oz. Triple Sec
1/8 oz. Lime Juice
1/8 oz. Amaretto
2 oz. Orange Juice
Directions: Add ingredients to an ice filled shaker shake...shake and pour
accordingly.[/list:u]And for
Dust Devils:
In Madison, some of the Guy's would mix up what they called Jageritas, or Tequillameisters. You can figure it out. These had to be ristricted to post play because, as you might imagine the effect is somewhat like the description of the effects of a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster (being hit in the head with a brick with a lemon twist).
In Playboys' lists of top ten party schools they always include a footnote that says, "No schools from the state of Wisconsin has been included as this is a list of amatures, not professionals." Madison, and indeed Wisconsin, is a very strange place where drinking is concerned. It wasn't until I was in the army that I realized that drinking hard alcohol with every meal wasn't the norm everywhere. There are no alcoholics in Wisconsin, just citizens. Really. Being a "social drinker" around here would qualify you for alcoholism most anywhere else, with the possible exception of Germany.
My mother recently had to go off alcohol because she was on blood thinners. She commented to me, 'You know, it's not so bad not drinking all the time."
Yet, I'm the exception that proves the rule. I don't drink, and in fact have never been drunk (a point my wife disputes refering to a glass of wine I had in Paris once, after which she said I acted tipsy). I go to restarurants here, and ask for lemonade. I often get the bewildered response, "would you like anything else in your lemonade?" When out of state, friends of mine oder pitchers for themselves leaving bartenders staring. Which is really strange to a Wisconsinite who will probably want to be going for one or more refills on that pitcher later. More if it's a guy.
Just thought I'd share.
Mike
Here's a couple game inspired then made in reality ones.
Kelly's Flaming Demise
type: triple shooter
1 shot everclear, if unavailable high proof vodka works as well
1 shot Captain Morgans original spiced
1 part blue curacoa
mix in small tumbler, light on fire, watch the pretty blue flame for one second, blow and shoot. make sure you remember to blow it out, our friend Kelly didn't.
I drank what?
Equal parts CM Parrot Bay and Pepsi, must be pepsi, when your done drinking a 32 oz cup of this not tasting the alcohol you definitly pull a socrates.
Belfast Bomber
great for just about anything if your in a hurry.
ingred. anykind of shot your prefer dropped into a pint of guinness, then jug. there is a specific shot but i dont remember what the first one was about 12 later that st patties day.
Quote from: Sylus ThaneI drank what?
Equal parts CM Parrot Bay and Pepsi, must be pepsi, when your done drinking a 32 oz cup of this not tasting the alcohol you definitly pull a socrates.
Only works on drinkers. People have tried repeatedly to slip me mickies, and I've never failed to detect the alcohol.
Mike
Of course :) considering the topic at hand there are those people who like drinking but dont necessarily like mixed drinks because of the alcohol taste.
Sylus
If I might suggest a drink for a game as-yet-unfinished:
For Deplorable, the
Old Fashioned
2 oz rye whiskey (bourbon as a variation)
1 lump sugar
2 dashes Angostura bitters
2 dashes Curacao or Absinthe
1 slice orange
1 slice lemon peel
In serving glass, press with spoon and muddle well orange slice, lemon peel, sugar and bitters. Add whiskey and serve.
Stuart
For Little Fears:
Early Bedtime
4 parts CranRaspberry juice
2 parts Grey Goose vodka
(shake with ice; pour into a collins glass; fill the rest with orange juice)
or:
The Bogeyman
4 parts Goldschlager
2 parts vodka
4 parts Red Bull
For The End:
Four Horsemen (shot)
Equal parts:
Jaegermeister
Goldschlager
Rumpleminz
151
Quote from: Matt SnyderHell yeah! Also, if you're really, really feeling like a Devil haunted, Western scum, you can try a....
Prairie Fire: 2 oz tequila, 1-2 tsp tabasco sauce.
Heh, that brings back fond (if hazy) memories of my stag night (what you guys would call a bucks night I guess).
We had "Mid Air Collision over Kansas"es, which is a triple... Down a B52, then a Kamakaze, then a Prairie Fire. And in New Zealand, the prairie fire has a raw egg in it too.
For the record, the best/worst drink of that night was the Tongan Blowjob (Tonga is a pacific island). Take a shotglass, full it half with black heart rum (76.4% by volume) and half with tobasco sauce, then top with finely chopped hot chilli peppers. That would go well with a game like kill puppies for satan because it makes you feel like it feels playing that game :-)
Brian.
Quote from: Brian LeybourneHeh, that brings back fond (if hazy) memories of my stag night (what you guys would call a bucks night I guess).
Nope, they're Stag parties or just Bachelor Parties here. Mine ended up in Canada...
Mike
I hope this is not too offtopic, but
a) An advice to Mike H.: Never, ever serve Kool-Aid(?) during a Sorcerer & Space game. It makes you want to chew on the other characters. No, really!
b) A con I attended in the mid 90's, "Hannover Spielt" sold a magical artifact called "The Bottomless Cup of Coffee and Tea": you bought it for a couple of bucks and then had free refill on tea and coffee during the whole con. Great idea.
c) for Orkworld:
Bala (honey mead)
d) for Changeling: The Dreaming
Green Fairy
1 shot of absinth in a glass, put one sugar cube on a tea spoon, soak sugar in absinth, put tea spoon with sugar on top of glass, set sugar cube on fire, wait until fire is out, stir sugar into absinth, fill with ice cold water
The Dread
Type: Shot
Ingredients:
1 Part Whiskey.
fin.
Andrew! How goes the vote counting?!
Mike
Quote from: Jürgen MayerI hope this is not too offtopic, but
a) An advice to Mike H.: Never, ever serve Kool-Aid(?) during a Sorcerer & Space game. It makes you want to chew on the other characters. No, really!
The look on your face still makes me laugh when I think about it.
Dude, gaming without my Kool-Aid? Not gonna happen, not at my house!
Mike
Quote from: Mike HolmesAndrew! How goes the vote counting?!
Mike
SURPRISINGLY EASY, actually. I'm glad I spent a lot of time designing the "back end" of the voting portal/ballot, because it's really been a snap for me to gather and organize votes. I'm friggin ecstatic, because at the way things are going, next years' work will be much easier.
Hints at who's in the lead? Hell naw! :)
One thing that really excited me at work is feedback. I handle basically a huge feedback-gathering tool in internal support and the web at the company I work for, and am really looking forward to gathering and acting on people's feedback for next year.
On the Mead recipe earlier.
Be very careful there on the bottling. I would let in ferment quite a while longer. Buy or make a simple airlock for your fermenting vessel (available at homebrewing or winemaking stores).
The pressure inside the bottle created from carbonation of the still highly sugared liquid can explode bottles etc. Champagne yeast is great for Mead, but it ferments out to high alcohol levels if there is enough sugar. If you haven't fermented out enough before you bottle it you are taking some risks...the refrigerator will help since cold tends to make yeast dormant.
Homebrewing mead recipes, and other homebrew information are available here...
http://www.beertown.org/homebrewing/recipe.html
Mead is great! I've made it... it took several months to ferment out. I wanted only slight carbonation in the bottle, still got a little more than intended
Ok...enough Mr. Safety,
A nice lambrusco goes with anything, I have found, but it stains your teeth.
Quote from: Mike HolmesIn Playboys' lists of top ten party schools they always include a footnote that says, "No schools from the state of Wisconsin has been included as this is a list of amatures, not professionals." Madison, and indeed Wisconsin, is a very strange place where drinking is concerned. It wasn't until I was in the army that I realized that drinking hard alcohol with every meal wasn't the norm everywhere. There are no alcoholics in Wisconsin, just citizens. Really. Being a "social drinker" around here would qualify you for alcoholism most anywhere else, with the possible exception of Germany.
Reminds me of the phrase, from the days of daily grog rations, "he was drunk by Naval standards."
-Tod
Quote from: szilardOld Fashioned
2 oz rye whiskey (bourbon as a variation)
1 lump sugar
2 dashes Angostura bitters
2 dashes Curacao or Absinthe
1 slice orange
1 slice lemon peel
In serving glass, press with spoon and muddle well orange slice, lemon peel, sugar and bitters. Add whiskey and serve.
Glad to see another rye drinker here. A couple other rye drinks of interest:
Ink Street
1 oz. each rye, orange juice, lemon juice.
chill over ice and strain. (It's not just for breakfast anymore!)
Sazerac
2 oz. rye
2 tsp. simple syrup
Peychaud's bitters
Pernod
Lemon zest
Chill rye, syrup, and several dashes bitters over ice. Rinse chilled old fashioned glass with Pernod. Strain rye into glass. Twist zest over glass and drop in.
Commodore
2 oz. rye
2 tsp. simple syrup (or sugar)
Juice of 1/2 lime
Orange bitters
Chill and strain into chilled cocktail glass.
And an unnamed creation:
2 oz. rye
1 oz. Cointreau
Any of these drinks are appropriate for early 20th century settings, or whenever a spot of rye would be just the thing.
-Tod
Greetings Tod. Should have known you wouldn't wait to long to find your way to this thread :-)
Quote from: Andy KitkowskiThe Dread
1 Part Whiskey.
Hah. I was going to post a personal favorite, which I find pretty topical for Dread:
The Stakeout:
One 20 oz. bottle of Jolt
One half-shot of grain alcohol (preferably something cheap, like Diesel)
Keeps you up, but lets you get down.
-- Rafael
Dead Nazi
1/4 oz. Green Creme de Menthe
1/4 oz. Vodka
1/4 Licorice Liqueur
Pour ingredients into a shot glass and drink.
Against the Reich, or any other game that lets you wack Nazi scum.
-Chris
Me and the International Bartender's Guide had a little sit-down together. Um, you guys know, I do have a bar in my basement, right? Came with the house.
Fudge - Chocolate Martini
2 oz vodka
1 oz chocolate liqueur
1 tsp sweetened chocolate powder
cherry
Dust top portion of martini glass with chocolate powder. Stir liquid ingredients with ice, strain into glass and garnish with cherry.
Unknown Armies - Tailspin
1 oz gin
1 oz sweet vermouth
1 oz green Chartreuse
1-2 dashes orange bitters
Shake with ice, strain into wineglass filled with cracked ice, add twisted lemon peel. (Variant specially for UA: add 1 hit LSD)
La Famiglia - Godfather
2 oz scotch
1 oz amaretto or almond liqueur
Pour into chilled old-fashioned glass over ice, stir gently.
The Riddle of Steel - The Cossack
1 oz cognac
1 oz vodka
1 oz lime juice
1/2 tsp sugar
Shake with ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass
Fvlminata - Roman Punch
2 oz Jamaican rum
2 oz brandy
1 oz raspberry syrup
juice of 1 lemon
Mix in chilled highball glass, fill with shaved or crushed ice, and stir
In Nomine - Seventh Heaven Cocktail and Devil's Tail
S.H.
1.5 oz gin
1/2 oz maraschino
1/2 oz grapefruit juice
Shake with ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass, garnish with sprig of fresh mint.
D.T.
1.5 oz light rum
1 oz vodka
1/4 oz apricot brandy
1/2 oz lime juice
2-3 dashes grenadine
1/2 cup crushed ice
twist of lemon peel
Blend first 6 ingredients at low speed for 15 seconds, pour into chilled wineglass and garnish with lemon peel.
Nicotine Girls - Silk Stocking
1.5 oz gin
1/2 oz apple brandy
1 oz orange juice
Shake with ice, strain into wineglass filled with cracked ice, serve with small straw.
Little Fears - Jack in the Box
1.5 oz apple brandy
1.5 oz pineapple juice
1 dash Angostura bitters
Shake with ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass.
Starchildren -Queens
3/4 oz gin
3/4 oz dry vermouth
3/4 oz sweet vermouth
3/4 oz pineapple juice
Shake with ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass.
Swashbuckler - Quelle Vie (runners-up: Cardinal Punch, the Parisian, Stirrup Cup)
1.5 oz brandy
3/4 oz kummel
Stir with ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass.
Munchkins - Depth Bomb
1 shot glass of whiskey
1 glass of beer
Carefully drop the shot glass, with whiskey, into the beer.
The Dying Earth - Peach Fizz
2 oz cognac
2 tsp peach brandy
2 tsp lemon juice
1.5 tsp sugar syrup
cold champagne
Shake first 5 ingredients with ice, strain into chilled wineglass, top with champagne. Decorate with peach slice.
Dead Meat - Zombie (duh!)
2 oz light rum, 1 oz dark rum, 1/2 oz apricot brandy
juice of 1 lime, 1 oz pineapple juice, 1 oz passionfruit juice
1 tsp sugar
1/2 cup crushed ice
1/2 oz 151 proof rum
slice of fresh pineapple and orange, maraschino cherry
Blend 1st 8 ingredients at low speed until smooth. Pour into chilled highball glass, float 151 on top, garnish with fruit.
Feng Shui - Orient Express
1 oz gin
1 oz bourbon
1 oz brandy
Stir ingredients with cracked ice and strain into chilled cocktail glass.
Quote from: Ron EdwardsMe and the International Bartender's Guide had a little sit-down together. Um, you guys know, I do have a bar in my basement, right? Came with the house.
Ron, I envy you. I truly, truly do.
Seth Ben-Ezra
Great Wolf