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Bioshock Possession

We were lucky enough to get to sample the first 2 hours of Bioshock Infinite at the tail end of 2012 to gather data to use in creating real-world versions of the vigour’s consumed in the game.

The second of the creations was Possession, the main part might taste mellow with basil-infused gin but that absinthe foam isn’t to be taken lightly.

Ingredients

  • 1 bunch of Basil
  • 50 ml Tanqueray Gin
  • ½ Lemon
  • ½ Lime
  • 25 ml Sugar Syrup
  • Strainer
  • Blender
  • Ice
  • Tumbler Glass
  • Absinthe Froth recipe (Serves 4)
  • 25 ml Absinthe
  • 1 Egg White
  • 25 ml Water
  • 25ml Sugar Syrup

Method

Add a lot of Basil and Lemon half into a cocktail shaker and muddle the two heavily. Next, add a shot of sugar syrup to the mix, then add in the Tanqueray gin double measure, fill to the top with ice and shake vigorously. Finally, strain and use a small sieve forcing any remaining liquid out of the ingredients. The gin should have taken on a nice green tint. Serve in a rocks glass with fresh ice. Add some Absinthe froth to the top of the drink.

To make the froth, combine the ingredients in a blender and whisk until foam forms, skim some off and add to the top of the drink. Serve with a fresh basil leaf.

The Game

Released in 2013 BioShock Infinite is a first-person shooter video game developed by Irrational Games and published by 2K Games. 

The game is set in the year 1912 and follows its protagonist, former Pinkerton agent Booker DeWitt, who is sent to the airborne city of Columbia to find a young woman, Elizabeth, who has been held captive there for most of her life. Though Booker rescues Elizabeth, the two become involved with the city’s warring factions: the nativist and elite Founders that rule Columbia and strive to keep its privileges for White Americans, and the Vox Populi, underground rebels representing the underclass of the city. During this conflict, Booker learns that Elizabeth possesses strange powers to manipulate “Tears” in the space-time continuum that ravage Columbia, and soon discovers her to be central to the city’s dark secrets.

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Elder Scrolls Skyrim

What comes first, the drink or the pun? In this case, the name certainly came first. This was created as part of our Guardian Games of the Year 2011 recipes, this has been on the menu ever since and seen almost as many re-releases as Skyrim itself, here’s our current recipe for Elderflower Scrolls Skyyrum.

Ingredients

  • 30ml Skyy vanilla vodka
  • 25ml Spiced rum (Sailor Jerry)
  • Orange peel
  • 175ml Sparkling elderflower presse
  • Sugar
  • Saucer
  • Ice
  • High-ball Glass

Method

First, create a sugared rim by rubbing the lime wedge around the lip of your high ball glass, dip this into a saucer with 5ml of the vanilla vodka, and then into a plate of sugar. Now put ice into the glass and pour in the remaining vanilla vodka & 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.

The Game

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is an action role-playing video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. It is the fifth main instalment in The Elder Scrolls series, following The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, and was released worldwide on November 11, 2011.

The game’s main story revolves around the player’s character, the Dragonborn, on their quest to defeat Alduin the World-Eater, a dragon who is prophesied to destroy the world. The game is set 200 years after the events of Oblivion and takes place in Skyrim, the northernmost province of Tamriel. Over the course of the game, the player completes quests and develops the character by improving skills. The game continues the open-world tradition of its predecessors by allowing the player to travel anywhere in the game world at any time, and to ignore or postpone the main storyline indefinitely.

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Alien Isolation

We’ve got a bit of previous with Creative Assembly (Rum Total War) when we heard the studio had been working on an Alien title we decided it was about time we paid tribute to the franchise, this Alien Inebriation is a bit of a monster!

Ingredients

  • 30ml Patron XO Tequila
  • 30ml Vanilla Vodka
  • Kinder Egg
  • Strainer
  • Boston Shaker
  • Ice
  • Martini Glass
  • Shot Glass

Method

Put your glass in cryo by filling with ice and set aside to chill. Next, take your Patron and Vanilla vodka and add to the Boston shaker along with a lot of ice, shake heavily, bring back your chilled glass, throwing out the ice and place a shot glass in the middle. Top with the Kinder Egg, strain and slowly pour your cocktail mix around the Alien Egg and serve.

The Game

Alien: Isolation is a 2014 survival horror video game developed by Creative Assembly Based on the Alien science fiction horror film series, the game is set 15 years after the events of the original 1979 film Alien, and follows engineer Amanda Ripley, daughter of Alien protagonist Ellen Ripley, as she investigates the disappearance of her mother.

Unlike previous game adaptations of the Alien franchise, Alien: Isolation places an emphasis on stealth and survival horror gameplay, requiring the player to avoid and outsmart a single Alien creature with tools such as a motion tracker and flamethrower. It was designed to resemble the original film rather than its more action-oriented 1986 sequel Aliens, and features a similar lo-fi, 1970s vision of what the future would look like.

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Bioshock Devils Kiss

We were lucky enough to get to sample the first 2 hours of Bioshock Infinite at the tail end of 2012 to gather data to use in creating real-world versions of the vigour’s consumed in the game.

Part of a set this is our Devils Kiss giving the drinker the power of flame and potentially a nasty hangover. The picture featured a glass-coated in latex to look like burning wrists, having still not fully cleaned up the mess we’d recommend skipping that part of the creation.

Ingredients

  • 25ml Spiced Rum
  • 25ml Chambord
  • 10ml Grenadine
  • 15ml Overproof Rum
  • 2 Dashes Angostura Bitters
  • 50ml Cloudy Lemonade (carbonated)
  • 50ml Ginger Beer
  • Lime
  • Cinnamon
  • Ice
  • Saucer
  • Lighter or matches
  • Highball Glass

Method

Fill a high ball glass with ice, pour in grenadine, Chambord and dashes of bitters to begin. Carefully pour in cloudy lemonade and ginger beer down the side of the glass leaving the grenadine sitting in the bottom, add the juice of a lime and finish the drink with a shot of Spiced Rum to the top. To serve place drink on a saucer and place the measure of overproof rum around the base, light with a match and begin to flick cinnamon onto the drink/flame, extinguish, add a straw and serve. Anyone looking to savour every last drop can drink the rum left in the saucer when it’s cooled.

The Game

Released in 2013 BioShock Infinite is a first-person shooter video game developed by Irrational Games and published by 2K Games. 

The game is set in the year 1912 and follows its protagonist, former Pinkerton agent Booker DeWitt, who is sent to the airborne city of Columbia to find a young woman, Elizabeth, who has been held captive there for most of her life. Though Booker rescues Elizabeth, the two become involved with the city’s warring factions: the nativist and elite Founders that rule Columbia and strive to keep its privileges for White Americans, and the Vox Populi, underground rebels representing the underclass of the city. During this conflict, Booker learns that Elizabeth possesses strange powers to manipulate “Tears” in the space-time continuum that ravage Columbia, and soon discovers her to be central to the city’s dark secrets.

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Destiny

For our Destiny tribute we took inspiration from the game with something incredibly polished and a taste of the “tipple-A” world of games development with a Prosecco Belini, enjoy Destini.

Ingredients

  • 15ml Passion Fruit Coulis
  • 15ml Chambord
  • Small Bottle of Prosecco
  • Bar Spoon
  • Ice
  • Champagne Flute

Method

Chill your glass down before crafting then start with the passion fruit coulis, next carefully add the Chambord so there’s a clear divide, you can use the base of a bar spoon to help with this, now the tense part, gently pour the prosecco so it adds a nice gradient and serve with the rest of the bottle on the side.

The Game

Destiny is an online-only multiplayer first-person shooter video game developed by Bungie and previously published by Activision. The game features a multiplayer “shared-world” environment with elements of role-playing games. Activities in Destiny are divided among player versus environment (PvE) and player versus player (PvP) game types. In addition to normal story missions, PvE features three-player “strikes” and six-player raids. A free roam patrol mode is also available for each planet and features public events. PvP features objective-based modes, as well as traditional deathmatch game modes.

Players take on the role of a Guardian, protectors of Earth’s last safe city as they wield a power called Light to protect the City from different alien races. Guardians are tasked with reviving a celestial being called the Traveller, while journeying to different planets to investigate and destroy the alien threats before humanity is completely wiped out. 

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Rome Total War 2

Created for a community event, this creative assembly, Rum Total War, was created using classic ingredients and certainly one you should take your time drinking.

Ingredients

  • 50ml Spiced Rum
  • 75ml Port
  • Dash of Orange Bitters
  • Grapes
  • Orange Wedge
  • Apple Slice
  • Lime Wedge
  • Lemon Wedge
  • Boston Shaker
  • Ice
  • Wine glass

Method

Chill wine glass with ice and add an Orange Wedge and the grapes for garnish, take all the remaining ingredients and shake over ice and strain into your glass and serve.

The Game

Total War: Rome II is a strategy video game developed by The Creative Assembly and published by Sega. It was released on September 3, 2013, as the eighth standalone game in the Total War series of video games and the successor to the 2004 game Rome: Total War.

Total War: Rome II is set in Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Near East in the Classical antiquity period. The grand single-player campaign begins in 272 BC and lasts for 300 years. However, the player also has the option to play further, as there are no timed victory conditions.

Like its predecessor, Rome II blends turn-based grand strategy and civilization management with real-time tactical battles. The Warscape engine powers the game’s visuals and new unit cameras allow players to focus on individual soldiers on the real-time battlefield, which may contain thousands of combatants at the same time. Creative Assembly has stated that it wished to bring out the more human side of war, with soldiers reacting as their comrades get killed around them, and officers inspiring men with heroic speeches

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What to Drink?

Since 2010 there’s been a whole bunch of drinks served up over the different bars over the years, some have been around since the beginning and covering everything from Assassin’s Mead to Zelda we’ve put together a whole host of our recipes for you to recreate.


The template for which drinks we create tend to be around established titles and cocktails/spirits, so Earthworm Gin, Assassins Mead this isn’t always the case but is why you don’t see us making drinks around items/in game events.

Ingredients

  • Terrible Puns
  • Approval from publishers
  • Will Edgecombe photography

Method

Most things can be switched up so if you don’t have Absolut, for example, no problem, another vodka is great.
If you end up creating any of these yourself let us know how it went or tag the finished results with #LoadingBarFromAfar
You can use the drinks however you fancy but please don’t monetize or remove any credits attached.

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Crash Bandicoot

With each menu we try to make sure there’s a decent spread of publishers and platforms represented, needing something for Sony we thought a splash of Crash was a nice choice and so Crash Brandyfruit was born.

Ingredients

  • 30ml Martell Brandy
  • 20ml Creme de Cacao
  • 15ml Baileys
  • 50ml Double Cream
  • Dusting Cinnamon
  • Wumpa Fruit//Apple
  • Boston Shaker
  • Ice
  • Martini glass

Method

In a Boston shaker, add the double cream, Baileys, Brandy and Creme de Cacao, shake well with ice and double strain into your martini glass, to garnish cut slices of Wumpa Fruit/Apple and dust with cinnamon before serving up.

The Game

Crash Bandicoot is a platform video game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation released in 1996.

Crash Bandicoot is the first instalment in the Crash Bandicoot series, chronicling the creation of the title character at the hands of series antagonist Doctor Neo Cortex and henchman Doctor Nitrus Brio. The story follows Crash as he aims to prevent Brio and Cortex’s plans for world domination, and rescue his girlfriend Tawna, a female bandicoot also evolved by Brio and Cortex.

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Assassins Creed

This is another of our classics after Pokemon Sloe and Skyyrum this is our next biggest seller, like the Assassins Creed franchise our Assassins Mead cocktail has seen a few iterations over the years, choose whether you use the chocolate coins to distract guards or snack.

Ingredients

  • 50ml Mead
  • 25ml Spiced Rum
  • 25ml Dark Rum
  • Juice Half Lime
  • 50ml Cloudy Pineapple Juice
  • 50ml Ginger Beer
  • Chocolate Coins
  • Boston Shaker
  • Ice
  • Half-pint tankard

Method

In a shaker mix, mead, spiced rum, dark rum, lime juice and the cloudy pineapple, shake heavily and strain into the tumbler, top up with ginger beer and serve with the chocolate coins on the side.

The Game

Assassin’s Creed is an action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It is the first installment in the Assassin’s Creed series. 

The plot is set in a fictional history of real-world events and follows the centuries-old struggle between the Assassins, who fight for peace with free will, and the Templars, who desire peace through control. The game primarily takes place during the Third Crusade in the Holy Land in 1191, with the plot revolving around the Secret Order of Assassins, based upon the Hashshashin sect. The player is, in reality, playing as a modern-day man named Desmond Miles, who, through the use of a machine named the “Animus”, is allowed the viewing and controlling of the protagonist’s genetic memories of his ancestors, in this case, Altaïr Ibn-La’Ahad, a member of the Assassins.

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Pokémon Go

Our version of the classic Bramble, inspired by Pokémon Go this Pokémon Sloe has berry sweets on the side which help catch pokemon in the game and should help you impress whoever this drink is being made for.

Ingredients

  • 30ml Sloe Gin
  • 15ml Chambord
  • 50ml Gin
  • 10ml Grenadine
  • Juice of half a lemon
  • Juice of half a lime
  • 50ml Lemonade
  • Berry Sweets or Blackberrys
  • Boston Shaker
  • Cocktail picks
  • Ice
  • Tumbler

Method

Like a Pokeball this is made in two parts, first up the red half, shake the Sloe gin, Chambord and grenadine and pour into the tumbler, next shake together gin, the lemon and lime juice, strain and slowly add the mixture and top with lemonade. Garnish with sweets either on picks balanced on the glass or to the side.

The Game

Pokémon Go is a 2016 augmented reality (AR) mobile game developed and published by Niantic in collaboration with The Pokémon Company for iOS and Android devices. A part of the Pokémon franchise, the game is the result of a collaboration between Niantic, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company. It uses the mobile device GPS to locate, capture, battle, and train virtual creatures, called Pokémon, which appear as if they are in the player’s real-world location. The game is free-to-play; it uses a freemium business model and supports in-app purchases for additional in-game items. The game launched with around 150 species of Pokémon, which had increased to around 600 by 2020.