Guild Wars 2

Note: I’ve made outlines for all the ones I haven’t provided recipes for, but I haven’t made them yet. I have a limited alcohol budget so it may take a while before I can post all of them, but I’ll update the thread when I do.

EXPERIMENTAL OOZE BOOZE (asura)

• 2 oz ice
• 2 oz crushed pineapple with juice
• 2 oz coconut rum
• 3 oz blue curacao
• 1 tsp grenadine
  1. Blend the ice cubes and pineapple until slushy.
  2. Add the rum and curacao and blend thoroughly.
  3. Pour into a laboratory flask, then add the grenadine and stir lightly to create a mottled blue-and-purple effect.

GLADIATOR SWILL (charr)

• 1.5 Tbsp of extremely fine (Turkish ground if possible) dark roast coffee (use decaf unless you want to risk a heart attack)
• 1 c water
• 2 oz whiskey
  Soldier Version: nothing added
  Fahrar Version: milk rations (recipe below)
  1. Pour water into a small saucepan. Add the coffee but don’t stir it in, then put it on the stove, uncovered, at medium-low heat. Keep an eye on it to make sure it doesn’t come to a rolling boil, or else it will become too bitter.
  2. When the coffee starts to bubble slightly and develop a light foam, remove it from the heat.
  3. Optionally, let the foam dissipate and then put the saucepan back on the stove until the coffee begins bubbling again. This will help the grounds settle.
  4. Pour slowly into a tin cup, trying to keep most of the grounds in the saucepan. Some will inevitably get in the cup and that’s okay; they’ll settle to the bottom as long as you don’t chug it.
  5. Stir in the whiskey and (optional but recommended) milk rations to taste.

Milk Rations (original recipe from here):

• 12 oz canned evaporated milk
• 14 oz canned sweetened condensed milk
  1. Whisk together the contents of both cans until thoroughly combined.
  2. Store in the fridge and use the leftovers for your coffee—I strongly recommend making the iced coffee in that link!

VICTORIA’S RED WINE (human)

• 1 bottle of red wine
• 1 c brandy
• 1 c orange juice
• 2 Tbsp lemon juice
• 2 Tbsp lime juice
• 3 Tbsp grenadine (or to taste)
• 1/4-1/2 c each of cubed apple, kiwi, cantaloupe, and orange (plus some orange slices for garnish)
  1. Combine all ingredients and leave in the fridge for at least 2 hours, but preferably overnight.
  2. Ladle into wine glasses filled with ice to serve.

CELEBRATORY BEER (norn)

• 12 oz beer
• 1 Tbsp salted butter
• 1 1/2 Tbsp molasses
• 1/8 tsp cinnamon
• 1/8 tsp ginger
• 1/8 tsp cloves
• a pinch of nutmeg
  1. Heat the butter in a saucepan until it’s light brown, then add the molasses and spices. Stir and continue heating until it bubbles.
  2. Add the beer, stir some more, and continue heating it until it’s hot but not boiling.
  3. Pour into a stein. You might be able to make it foam if you pour it from high up, but you also might pour it all over your kitchen counter. (Guess which result I got!) If you think it’s worth the risk, give it a shot.

AUTUMN NECTAR (sylvari)

• 1/3 c chilled dry champagne
• 1/3 c chilled pear nectar
• 1/2 oz lemon juice
• 1/2 oz elderflower liqueur
• a few clean, organic edible flowers for garnish (I recommend cucumbery borage or spicy nasturtium; make sure they’re food-grade!)
  1. Pour the champagne into a champagne flute.
  2. Add the remaining ingredients, stir, and drop in the flowers.

ELEMENTAL HARMONY (elementalist—yeah I cheated on the name, it was the best I could do)

• 1 c ripe seedless watermelon (hard to measure so call it 6 oz) cubed and frozen on a parchment-lined tray overnight
• 1.5 oz tequila
• 1 oz Cointreau or other orange liqueur
• 1/2 oz lime juice
• 1 tsp sugar, if necessary (if your watermelon is on the bland side, you’ll probably want more)
• watermelon Pop Rocks
• coarse salt
  1. Dip the rim of a margarita glass in some lime juice, then into a mixture of Pop Rocks and a bit of salt.
  2. Blend the watermelon, lime juice, and sugar until no more chunks remain.
  3. Add the remaining ingredients, blend thoroughly, and pour into the glass.

ELIXIR X (engineer)

• 1.5 oz vodka
• 3 oz tomato juice with salt
• 1/2 tsp Worcester sauce (vegans/vegetarians, use Pickapeppa sauce instead)
• 1/2 tsp prepared horseradish
• 1/2 tsp chipotle hot sauce, or more to taste
• 1/2 tsp brine from a jar of deli jalapenos
• 1/4 tsp black pepper
• ice
  1. Fill a highball glass roughly halfway with ice.
  2. Combine the remaining ingredients and pour into the glass.
  3. Garnish with whatever you want—celery, bell pepper slices, bacon, a flame turret…get creative, you’re an engineer!

ZEALOT’S FLAME (guardian)

• 1 1/2 oz blue curacao
• 1 1/2 oz Absolut Wild Tea vodka
• ice
• Everclear
  1. Combine blue curacao and vodka in a shaker with ice. Shake vigorously and strain into a martini glass.
  2. Float a small splash of Everclear on top.
  3. Set the Everclear on fire right before serving (safety tips), but blow it out carefully before you drink it. Do not set yourself alight. (Also, please do not throw your Zealot’s Flame at a targeted foe.)

DISTORTION (mesmer)

• 4 oz pink lemonade
• 4 oz Hpnotiq Harmonie
• 1.5 oz whipped cream vodka
• clean, organic violets or violas (make sure you get ones that are specifically labeled as edible!)
  1. 8 hours or so before you make the drink, use 2 oz of the pink lemonade to half-fill a few compartments of an ice cube tray. (You can use shaped ice cube molds if you want—hearts, flowers, anything thematically appropriate.) Drop a few violets in each one and put the tray in the freezer.
  2. Once they’re frozen, fill the compartments the rest of the way with the remaining 2 oz of lemonade and freeze again.
  3. When the ice cubes are done, put them in a pretty wine glass, add the Hpnotiq and vodka, and stir.
  4. For the full effect, drink it slowly; as the ice cubes melt, they’ll make the flavor increasingly tart and release the butterfly-like violets.

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NATURE’S RENEWAL (ranger)

• 1 cucumber
• 1 sprig of fresh rosemary
• 1/4 oz lime juice
• 3 oz gin (preferably Hendrick’s)
• 6 oz tonic water
• ice cubes, optionally with a few juniper berries and/or pomegranate seeds frozen in each of them
  1. Peel the cucumber, cut it in half lengthwise, scrape out the seeds, and cut it into cubes. Puree the cucumber cubes in a blender. Strain the pulp through a fine strainer (or, ideally, a cheesecloth or flour sack) into a lidded container. It’ll keep for a few days in the fridge.
  2. Muddle the rosemary in a highball glass.
  3. Add the gin, lime juice, and 1/2 oz of cucumber juice and stir.
  4. Pour in the tonic and add the ice cubes.

SMOKE SCREEN (thief)

• 2 1/2 oz vodka
• 1/2 oz sake (if you have habushu, use it; if you don’t…don’t be crazy, just use regular sake)
• a few drops of squid ink
  1. Combine the vodka and sake with ice in a shaker, then pour into a martini glass.
  2. Drop the ink in right before serving to create a smoke “cloud.”

BULL’S CHARGE (warrior)

• 2 oz golden tequila
• 1 can Red Bull
• ice
  Combine everything in an Old Fashioned/lowball glass. And don’t drink more than one of these, like, ever or you will have all the heart attacks. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

May I just say, these all look delicious. Except maybe the Charr one… not a fan of whiskey and water… ugh… would rather drink it straight. Awesome job and I hope this comment isn’t in the middle of your list!

Thank you! And it’s okay, my list is done now.

I can post my reasoning behind all the choices I made too, if anyone’s interested. Some of them are pretty obvious though.

I am assuming you must be a bartender correct? I liek to say Im creative but dang I could never come up with stuff like this… Id probably say for a necro drink drink green absinthe and that would be it! Hahahahaha!

Haha, no, definitely not a bartender. I’ve just been cooking for most of my life and have branched out into kittentails recently. (I know that word gets filtered on this forum but it’s too funny not to keep.) Real bartenders would probably find my drinks fairly pedestrian, though there are a few—like Distortion—that I’m particularly proud of. And I can’t really claim some of them, like Nature’s Renewal and Elemental Harmony—cucumber-rosemary gin and tonics and watermelon margaritas are fairly standard drinks, but they worked so well.

I’ll be making asura and guardian pretty soon, either this or next weekend. Guardian is going to be an interesting experiment…

And yes, my current idea for necromancer does include absinthe. :p

Ha! Kittentails… lovely auto-correcting filter.

Anyway, these look fantastic. I will be trying the charr and mesmer one sometime soon. If you don’t hear from me…

Thanks, AkioFallstar! I hope you like them!

I’ve just finished my asura drink, so I’ll post it here and in the OP. I really wish I knew something about molecular mixology; I bet the asura would be totally into that.

EXPERIMENTAL OOZE BOOZE (asura)

• 2 oz ice
• 2 oz crushed pineapple with juice
• 2 oz coconut rum
• 3 oz blue curacao
• 1 tsp grenadine
  1. Blend the ice cubes and pineapple until slushy.
  2. Add the rum and curacao and blend thoroughly.
  3. Pour into a laboratory flask, then add the grenadine and stir lightly to create a mottled blue-and-purple effect.

Back again with thief! This is…not my kind of drink (neither was the asura one actually, but I know some people like their drinks pretty sweet). But I am a big baby. So this is more or less a saketini, but with an unusual addition.

SMOKE SCREEN (thief)

• 2 1/2 oz vodka
• 1/2 oz sake (if you have habushu, use it; if you don’t…don’t be crazy, just use regular sake)
• a few drops of squid ink
  1. Combine the vodka and sake with ice in a shaker, then pour into a martini glass.
  2. Drop the ink in right before serving to create a smoke “cloud.”

Up next: human.

Winemaker Victoria was forced to get creative after her vineyard was captured by centaurs. To stretch out her remaining supply she combined it with a variety of fruit juices, and then, to appeal to the united spirit of humanity, she added oranges for Kryta, apples for Ascalon, kiwis for Cantha, and cantaloupes for Elona.

VICTORIA’S RED WINE (human)

• 1 bottle of red wine
• 1 c brandy
• 1 c orange juice
• 2 Tbsp lemon juice
• 2 Tbsp lime juice
• 3 Tbsp grenadine (or to taste)
• 1/4-1/2 c each of cubed apple, kiwi, cantaloupe, and orange (plus some orange slices for garnish)
  1. Combine all ingredients and leave in the fridge for at least 2 hours, but preferably overnight.
  2. Ladle into wine glasses filled with ice to serve.

Back again with engineer. Like many of my drinks recipes, this is my take on a classic. In this case, a Bloody Mary with a bit of a smoky flavor.

ELIXIR X (engineer)

• 1.5 oz vodka
• 3 oz tomato juice with salt
• 1/2 tsp Worcester sauce (vegans/vegetarians, use Pickapeppa sauce instead)
• 1/2 tsp prepared horseradish
• 1/2 tsp chipotle hot sauce, or more to taste
• 1/2 tsp brine from a jar of deli jalapenos
• 1/4 tsp black pepper
• ice
  1. Fill a highball glass roughly halfway with ice.
  2. Combine the remaining ingredients and pour into the glass.
  3. Garnish with whatever you want—celery, bell pepper slices, bacon, a flame turret…get creative, you’re an engineer!

Second to last recipe is guardian. This one spent some time in…development hell, I guess. There aren’t a lot of options when it comes to blue alcohols, and my original plan was to use minty Avalanche for a “cold fire” feel, but then I found out they don’t make that anymore. So I ended up stuck with blue curacao. My next thought was a comforting black-tea-with-orange kind of thing, but the only colorless, tea flavored alcohol that appears to exist is Belvedere lemon tea vodka. I ordered that about a month ago and they still haven’t sent it and I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t have worked anyway, so I decided to go with chocolate and orange. That’s a nice, supportive combination right?

ZEALOT’S FLAME (guardian)

• 1 oz blue curacao
• 2 oz white creme de cacao
• 2 oz vodka
• ice
• Everclear
  1. Combine blue curacao, creme de cacao, and vodka in a shaker with ice. Shake vigorously and strain into a martini glass.
  2. Float a small splash of Everclear on top.
  3. Set the Everclear on fire right before serving (safety tips), but blow it out carefully before you drink it. Do not set yourself alight. (Also, please do not throw your Zealot’s Flame at a targeted foe.)

HOLD THE KITTENING PHONE

I just found out that Absolut Wild Tea vodka is clear. For some reason I thought it was brownish. Must have been confusing it with Firefly!

So anyway, here is Zealot’s Flame as I had envisioned it: strong, focused, zenlike, and “supportive.”

• 1 1/2 oz blue curacao
• 1 1/2 oz Absolut Wild Tea vodka
• ice
• Everclear

Instructions above.

I’ve modified Nature’s Renewal a bit. It wasn’t quite green enough for my liking before; gotta get the profession colors right. This way it actually brings out more of the cucumber flavor, so I’m pretty pleased with it!

NATURE’S RENEWAL (ranger)

• 1 cucumber
• 1 sprig of fresh rosemary
• 1/4 oz lime juice
• 3 oz gin (preferably Hendrick’s)
• 6 oz tonic water
• ice cubes, optionally with a few juniper berries and/or pomegranate seeds frozen in each of them
  1. Peel the cucumber, cut it in half lengthwise, scrape out the seeds, and cut it into cubes. Puree the cucumber cubes in a blender. Strain the pulp through a fine strainer (or, ideally, a cheesecloth or flour sack) into a lidded container. It’ll keep for a few days in the fridge.
  2. Muddle the rosemary in a highball glass.
  3. Add the gin, lime juice, and 1/2 oz of cucumber juice and stir.
  4. Pour in the tonic and add the ice cubes.

that’s pretty awesome, though i’m a little worried what a necromancer might have lying around his wine cellar.

i need to reply others i’m going to forget to try them out

Oh wow, thank you so much, Rubi! Now I’m scared that these recipes aren’t good enough though, ack.

If anyone has tips for improving these recipes, please share them; I’m still definitely an amateur when it comes to this kind of thing. Or your own recipes, those would also be nice to see!

the true charr drink: find the strongest whiskey you can find, then pour some pure alcohol in it.

(please don’t follow my cooking advice)

If I still drank alcohol I’d have to try a few of these. I might have to find/make some non-alchoholic versions.

Khani, since Autumn Nectar in game is actually non-alcoholic (there were no alcoholic sylvari drinks so I had to go with that name) I had planned to make an alternate version that uses sparkling apple cider instead of champagne and maybe elderflower syrup instead of liqueur, but I haven’t had a chance to try it out yet. I could post the recipe here when I do, if you’re interested.

I do know that Elixir X tastes fine without the vodka, if you like those flavors, and I actually just made a modified version of Nature’s Renewal without the gin, but you’d probably want to sweeten it. Maybe replace the gin and lime juice with limeade?

Also, there’s my Sparkling Effervescence recipe I posted in another thread, which can be made alcoholic or non-alcoholic:

• 24 oz ginger ale
• 1 c orange juice
• 1 c peach schnapps (substitute with peach nectar for a non-alcoholic version)
• 1/2 c vodka (optional)
• simple syrup
• lots and lots of Pop Rocks (any flavor would work, but blue ones look best)

1. Put the syrup in a saucer or shallow bowl. Twist the rims of your glasses in it, then pour handfuls of Pop Rocks over the rims until they’re all coated. Beware of flying Pop Rocks! If any get inside the glasses, dump them out.
2. Mix everything else up in a large bowl and ladle it into glasses to serve.

RubiBayer.8134:

Visteri, I wanted to pop back in and let you know that we loved your drink ideas so much that we presented a few of them to the staff at Gordon Biersch for our PAX Meet and Greet Saturday night.

Hopefully you’ll enjoy hearing that Experimental Ooze Booze and Nature’s Renewal were on the menu Saturday night, and they were a big hit with those who attended! Toward the end of the evening, Ooze Booze was off the menu because so many Guild Wars 2 players wanted to try it that the ingredients ran out.

So from all of us: Thank you for the inspiration!

I was at said awesome party and had a delicious Ooze booze it was great!!

Wow…I’m speechless! But I’m really glad to hear people enjoyed them!