Uncharted 3: Drinks Deception (Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception cocktail)
Ingredients:
Ginger beer (You could use Crabbies alcoholic ginger beer if you fancy more of a kick)
Goldschlager
Overproof rum (“we use Wray and Nephew,” says James)
Cinnamon
A box of matchesDirections: “Like the Uncharted games, this drink is one big action set-piece. Grab a highball glass and rub lime juice around the rim before dunking it onto a plate of sugar, then pour in 175ml ginger beer. Next, get a shot glass and pour in 10ml of Goldschlager, followed by 15ml of overproof rum, poured over the back of a spoon. You can now carefully light the shot and sprinkle cinnamon over the top from about 40cms to get an impressive flame. Then blow it out and drop the shot glass into the ginger beer.”
Seeking adventure? Ignite this Goldschlager and overproof rum depth charge then plunge it into a ginger beer ocean.
Drink created by James Dance of Loading for an article in The Guardian. Check out the article for the rest of the drinks and check out Loading for a great gaming bar and cafe.
Elderflower Scrolls: Skyyrum (The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim cocktail)
Ingredients:
Skyy vanilla vodka
Sparkling elderflower presse
Spiced rum (Sailor Jerry)
Orange peelDirections: “We’ve based this whole drink entirely around a series of highly amusing Skyrim puns – but luckily, it’s also delicious. First, create a sugared rim by dipping your high ball glass into the vanilla vodka, and then into a plate of sugar. Now put ice into the glass and pour in 175ml of the presse down the side (the inside, of course). Add a measure of spiced rum on top of that, and garnish with an orange peel dragon’s tongue.”
I used to make cocktails, but then…
Loading, the gaming cafe and bar in Falmouth, England, has created six new brilliant gaming drinks that were recently published in an article on The Guardian. Each drink is themed after a hit game of 2011. It should be noted that this Skyrim drink is also supported by Bethesda! To see the others, visit the article previously linked. If you’re around the Falmouth area, don’t forget to stop by Loading for a drink and some good times.
Drink created by James Dance of Loading.
The Portal Two (Portal 2 cocktails)
Ingredients:
Blue Curacao
Vodka
Lemonade
Cointreau
Rum
Orangina
Small tumblersDirections: “This drink is, of course, designed to resemble the two coloured portals from the excellent sci-fi puzzle game. For the blue version, get a small tumbler and pour in 10ml of Blue Curacao, 10ml of vodka and top up with lemonade. For orange you’ll need another tumbler, this time filled with 10ml of Cointreau, 10ml of rum and Orangina. If you fancy, you can jazz the glasses up with coloured sugar rims. Simply pour some sugar into a sandwich bag with the relevant food colouring, shake them up, pour the resulting mix into a dish and dip your tumbler in. “You can mix the portals together if you like,” says James. “It’s a very orangey flavour, which we thought tied in with The Orange Box, the compilation in which the original Portal appeared.”
The finest beverage breakthroughs from the Aperture alcohol research labs. Drink them in the name of science. You monster.
Drink created by James Dance of Loading for an article in The Guardian. Check out the article for the rest of the drinks and check out Loading for a great gaming bar and cafe.
Keep an eye on this ;)
A new section of our site has been added to the navigation sidebar, titled “Bars”. The goal of this section is to, over time, create a complete list of bars around the world that are of the geeky variety. Console gaming lounges, retro arcade bars, themed bars- if two of the main attractions are that it’s nerdy and serves alcohol, it belongs on the list. We hope that in creating this list we can help expose these magical places to other geeks, helping to expand geek bar culture.
The list will be added to constantly as new bars are discovered or open up. If you know of any bars that are missing from the list, please send them to The Drunken Moogle’s email.
Photo from Mana Bar, Brisbane.
