Digging deeper into The Justice Society of America…

DR. MID-NITE

Bottom layer, green:

2 parts Midori

1 part Triple Sec

Middle layer, brown:

3 parts bourbon

1 part Grand Marnier

2 parts apple juice

Top layer, red:

2 parts vodka

1 part Aperol

Shake layers separately with ice and layer into the cocktail glass.

So, theme colours are there, but how is this Dr. Mid-Nite’s namesake cocktail? I tried to include “the mysterious feel” of the character in the drink’s many aromas; I personally like the smooth slide from bitter red to more full-bodied brown… transition in colour is also nice, but quite a nightmare to photograph.

About the brown layer… you’ll notice Grand Marnier among ingredients? Combination of apple juice and bourbon is pretty rough, but G-Marnier clips off the rough edge nicely. Yes, I’ve used that particular liqueur for same purpose earlier, last time in Stargirl and Floronic Man.

It’s a good remedy, eg. when you’ve done some experiments of your own and need to smooth the clashing of aromas… but I’ve gotta cut it down: otherwise every cocktail ends up having a small hint of G-Marnier.

But where’s Hooty/Charlie? Yep, ended up thinking it myself… my only redemption is to design another drink with owl-element 🙂

ICICLE

2 parts gin

1 part Malibu

1 part Cointreau

Blue Curacao for adjusting colour

Shake vigorously with ice and strain into the super-chilled shot glass.

What on earth is coconut-flavoured Malibu doing in the namesake drink of one of the coolest ;P villains in the world?

Harsh dude, harsh drink. Trying to depict “Icicle”: the actual icicle is kinda spike of frozen water – spike? This is going to be a shot; also thematic, considering Icicle’s attacks.

Harsh… Let’s go for the London dry gin. Let’s give the drinker some relief… some Cointreau, Triple Sec is too sharp (or sharp in the wrong way, in this case).

Okay, now I have a base but it’s dull… something that clashes, punches the drinker in the gut like supersonic icicle.

Test after test, horrible mistakes (and a few drafts for future use) but then I nailed it: Malibu. You can find the coconut somewhere in there while gulping the Icicle down… but its main role is to contradict other ingredients (as does Amaretto in The Punisher, for example).

Now I’ve published three posts just JSA characters… there are more to go, but maybe it’s time to check out something else for a change?

See you next time 🙂

Continuing our series of JSA characters… and introducing one of their adversaries.

BRAIN WAVE

4 parts reposado tequila

1 part De Kyuper Blueberry

2 to 3 parts extra dry vermouth

1 part Midori

Shake with ice and strain into an old fashioned glass with lots of ice in it… and since this cocktail depicts The Brain Wave, Henry King Sr., the ice should be in the shape of ice ball; no one can appreciate that huge bald dome enough 🙂

A while ago I had a surge of designing drinks utilizing reposado tequila, and as much as I personally enjoy that particular type of alcohol… enough is enough, with Blob and Radioactive Man I promised to give it a rest for a while…

…and here I am again with reposado. Can’t help it in this particular case: trying to depict The Massive Amounts Of Brain Energy just calls in reposado… with all the other ingredients that just seem to contradict each other, the resulting jumble is a real brain twister – a decent description of The Brain Wave.

HOURMAN

6 parts dry white wine

2 parts bourbon

2 parts kirschwasser

1 part sarsaparilla syrup

Stir with ice and strain into a highball glass with some ice in it.

I decided to design this drink to represent the general idea of Hourman; not especially just father/son Tyler or android version.

How to represent “time” in cocktail? Especially 1 hour – 60 minutes, 3600 seconds – the concept so essential with Hourman? Fans might hate me, but I decided to go with the idea that the drink should take quite a while to finish; not necessarily the whole hour (well, depends on the size of the glass used), but at least it’s supposed to offer challenge for longer than few minutes.

Challenge, indeed… kirschwasser is the main factor here – adding a harsh element which prevents a quick ingestion. Also it doubles as a nod for android version – I used it for the same purpose in Metallo. Somehow I link kirschwasser’s taste with “metallic”, sure hope other drinkers find that association also.

I hope you like my take on Hourman… and if you’re interested in android cocktails, please check out Red Tornado and Vision.

Next time: more JSA.

JSA is one bunch of superheroes I haven’t paid much attention… sure, there’s The Atom, Dr. Fate, Hawkman etc. but I didn’t design them JSA especially in mind.

So, next few posts are about JSA members and their adversaries. After that, they’ll end up as a handy compilation among the rest in recipes and downloads.

STARGIRL

6 parts white rum

4 parts Passoã

2 parts Luxardo Maraschino

6 parts pineapple juice

(small dash of Grand Marnier, see below)

Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass, add one ice cube. Garnish with red cherry.

Mary Pickford is one delightful cocktail, one of my Prohibition Era favourites: I decided to use it as a basis for delightful character, Stargirl. I restrained myself for not straying too far from the original, I wanted to preserve that pert taste; also reminded myself that the final cocktail should not be too complex to make.

Anyway, here is Stargirl The Cocktail. It’s brisk, perky… as lively as Courtney Whitmore would ever be.

About Grand Marnier… I personally love how pineapple, Maraschino and rum collide in Mary Pickford and I wanted to retain that feature… even though I know some don’t quite enjoy it. Small splash of Grand Marnier will soften up the clash… but beware: it also “dulls” the cocktail. So: just a small splash, if any.

WILDCAT

2 parts mezcal

2 parts gin

1 part Heering

1 part Kahlúa

dash of Tabasco sauce

(black food colouring, not pictured)

Shake with ice and strain into a shot glass.

Ted Grant is a tough guy, so I guess his namesake drink should be as like.

Mezcal and gin; nasty combo, balanced with Heering and Kahlúa… which, gentle liqueurs as they are, jumble up the drink to such a level it should be taken as a shot: larger glasses (original idea) are not recommended.

And to your surprise… Tabasco sauce actually makes this shot more manageable (as long as you don’t overdo it): vinegar and chili, while adding more “wild” into the Wildcat, also round up the overall taste.

You approve “mean feline drink idea” but can’t quite stomach Wildcat? Please check out eg. Hellcat.

Hope you enjoy these 🙂

In April 10th 2021 it’s been exactly 30 years from the unfortunate death of Kevin Peter Hall, the most iconic monster actor since the invention of cinema.

To commemorate him and his work I shall publish a cocktail, inspired by the movie monster he brought alive.

• 

PREDATOR (over here…)

Pour some Midori and kirschwasser into the highball glass, stir and add plenty of ice. Then…

2 parts vodka

3 parts dry white wine

2 parts Midori

1 parts Strega

Stir with ice and strain into the glass but don’t fill it. Top with dry white wine: you’re aiming for “green drink fading to transparent”-look.

So, movie begins… there’s tension, but not much action yet: that’s plain dry white wine. Then we get to the layer where wine and the actual drink start to mix: things get more interesting… and it’s getting more tense, since this is pretty ruthless for a highball-sized drink.

And finally there’s that kirschwasser-Midori-combo: Predator is defeated, sweet victory (Midori)… but it’s Pyrrhic victory because of the self-dectruction device (kirschwasser).

Rest in Peace, Kevin. We’ll miss you.

• 

ABBY ARCANE

Top layer:

Bayou Pink (see below)

Bottom layer:

4 parts cognac

2 parts Pisang Ambon

1 part absinth

Stir parts separately with ice and layer them into an old fashioned glass with plenty of ice in it.

Predator and jungle got me into thinking other characters from moist forests; if not from tropical rainforests, at least from the swamps of Louisiana.

This drink is named after Abby Arcane, but it’s more about unlikely love and how things are not always what they look like at the first glance… pink, sweet colour of fluffy love, is actually pretty harsh in this drink. And that muddy-green bottom part is suprisingly nice.

So, in the rotting Swamps of Louisiana… beautiful young woman falls in love with hideous Swamp Thing. Is it an abomination… or the most beautiful romance of the century?

Related drinks… Swamp Thing (two versions), Anton Arcane, Man-Thing.

About Bayou Pink… I ran into the booze by accident, of course I bought the bottle out of curiosity.

• 

I didn’t have a slightest idea what would mayhaw berries taste like (there’s not even a proper Finnish word for the plant)… now I know, I like to think the taste as “the rowanberries of US South”. Well, not as acrid as rowanberries, but I refuse to admit that I actually can’t describe the taste.

Problematic aroma, though… makes you wanna mix it with something, but as strong as the taste is, it disappears easily. So, I decided to use it as “a clashing layer”, but I’m not giving up so easily… so, maybe some mayhaw berry cocktails coming up in the future?

• 

FLORONIC MAN

2 parts gin

2 parts bourbon

4 parts grapefruit juice, squeezed by hand (leave the pulp in)

(few dashes, up to one part Grand Marnier; see below)

Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass, add one ice cube.

Another character inspired by Alan Moore’s “The Swamp Thing”… Jason Woodrue might be a villain whose name is forgotten quickly, but Floronic Man inspires me: what would sentient plant life feel like? What would it taste like, as a cocktail?

Somewhat boring, plain… but there would be “violent” streaks of more powerful aromas: think about all the spices and tastes, all the extracts we got out of plants. I think sharp gin and bourbon fulfill this role nicely.

If you feel the ingredients clash too violently, add a splash of Grand Marnier; it “ties up” the whole. Be warned, though: too much Marnier turns the cocktail dull and plain, in the wrong way.

Okay, today’sdrinks: technically about characters from the pages of superhero comics (and from the great movie), but actually they’re trying to describe some feeling cocktail-wise.

Next time: more straightforward superhero cocktails 🙂

Last time I introduced some cocktails utilizing reposado tequila and I kinda couldn’t let that bottle off my hand… so: more reposado cocktails!

BLOB

1 part reposado tequila

1 part Advocaat

1 part pineapple juice

Shake with ice and strain into an old fashioned glass with plenty of ice in it. If you want to represent Blob in more thematic fashion, use A HUGE glass – and prepare to get drunk 🙂

Blob The Cocktail… It has to have a “thick” feel, naturally; that’s Advocaat. Fred Dukes is a mean man; that’s represented with the acridity of tequila – blanco tequila would be too sharp for this purpose, reposado gives that sting but it’s somehow more mean because the taste creeps in slowly and it has more substance.

Mixing Advocaat and reposado results in a drink which is “almost there, but not quite”: adding pineapple juice “lubricates” two conflicting aromas together nicely.

RADIOACTIVE MAN

Green layer, top:

3 parts reposado tequila

1 part Pisang Ambon

couple dashes (up to 1 part) vodka

(few dashes of hand-squeezed grapefruit juice, see below)

Red part, bottom:

1 part reposado tequila

1 part Passoã

(few dashes of hand-squeezed grapefruit juice, see below)

Shake layers separately with ice and layer into an old fashioned glass with plenty of ice in it: red bottom, green on top.

This drink is about Marvel Comics’ Chen Lu, not about Simpsons character.

Let’s take a look at Radioactive man… radiation has given him all kind of powers: pure strength, but also “softer” abilities, eg. hypnosis. Okay, maybe drink with two layers: one smoother, another more “raw”? But they would still share the same main ingredient since all powers derive from radiation?

Well, radiation is represented with reposado, its lingering acridity. And since we’re going for two layers we might as well add in Radioactive Man’s colour theme: red oufit and the face glowing green behind the visor.

The green layer is sharper, although it contains oh so sweet Pisang Ambon… you can try it without vodka, but you’ll notice why I decided to add some: Pisang and reposado clash too violently – in Blob The Cocktail I used pineapple for “lubrication”, here the vodka does the trick.

The red layer is “softer” layer, hypnosis powers etc. if you will. Kinda boring if the whole drink would taste like this, but fine “dessert” for green layer.

Grapefruit juice… it doesn’t actually affect the taste, but the pulp of the juice looks great in the drink: it looks more “radioactive”, I think .

No reposado tequila next time, I promise 🙂

I’m floored. It looked the winter started to retreat… then it come back with the bang!

“Inspired” by this feeling I searched comfort from the bottle… Olmeca Altos Reposado, to be exact; it’s been ages since I tasted it, I’ve forgotten how good tequila it is!

So…let’s combine the late winter gloom and reposado 🙂 The reposado used doesn’t have to be Olmeca Altos; I tried same drinks with Sauza Hornitos Reposado and they tasted okay as well.

ABSORBING MAN

1 part gin

1 part creme de cassis

1 to 1,5 parts reposado tequila

couple dashes of lemon juice

Shake with ice and strain into an old fashioned glass with plenty of ice in it.

Carl Creel has been waiting for his namesake drink for way too long, it’s time to fix that: when I started to experiment with “Gloom & Reposado”-set, I decided to go for Absorbing Man The Cocktail. I had just the right feeling for it.

No one can’t deny the similaritites with A-Man and Parasite…with latter I decided to for nasty look but great taste; so this time I’ll do it another way around.

Of course this drink is not meant to taste repulsive, just… hmm, “challenging”. C’mon, the dude who sucks abilities of things around him sounds as charming as a leech… hence the taste.

Reposado tequila does the bitter part, gin adds sharp kick, lemon brings sour zest… the only thing balancing this trio is creme de cassis, and it’s barely holding them back… but still I dare to say this drink is a good choice for slow sipping. Say, when you’ve got The Late Winter Blues.

RA’S AL GHUL (LAZARUS PIT)

3 parts reposado tequila

1 part Campari

2 parts sweet red vermouth

Stir with ice and strain into an old fashioned glass with plenty of ice in it. Garnish with orange peel (yup, forgot it from the pic).

This drink was discovered/created in a whim… “Hmm… I wonder what would Negroni taste like if I substitute gin with reposado?” Well, little adjustment to the ratios and it’s pretty nice drink.

Since my Ra’s Al Ghul The Cocktail was simple Negroni variation, I decided to publish this as The Head of the Demon v.2.

Let’s see if spring finally gets a chokehold, I’m pretty tired of this lingering late winter… something more delightful next time, I hope 🙂

Third and final (for now) part of the Alpha Flight series. All A-Flight drinks are compiled into a one handy pdf: you can find it in recipes and downloads, among the rest.

GUARDIAN

2 parts Canadian whisky (or bourbon)

4 parts Passoã

2 parts Aperol OR dash or two (all the way up to 1 part) Campari

2 parts cranberry juice

dash of lemon juice

dash of maple syrup

(one tiny dash of cognac, see below)

Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass, add one small ice cube.

As usual… for cranberry juice, please use high quality concentrate without additives, diluted with water 1-1 ratio instead of recommendation (usually 1-3 or 1-4).

I didn’t want to design just another version of Captain Canuck, so I decided to drop the white layer from the start; choosed the red colour theme and try to come up with something totally different than Captain C.

Cold, harsh winters; chilling but beautiful autumn forests; the feel of the huge landscape – these were the things I tried to contain in the drink. Well, I fell somewhat short of my goal (as I usually do), but still I think Guardian The Cocktail is a decent drink.

The harshness of winter is represented by, you guessed it, by Campari or, if you prefer a bit less bitterness, Aperol. The tiny splash of cognac I mentioned among ingredients… Let’s say you try the Campari version and find it too bitter for your taste: the only option is to flush it in the sink? NO! Even few drops of cognac will “mellow down” the drink…

…and cognac can be used even for its own, not just to “save” the drink from Campari. I couldn’t decide: is cognac drop making the drink better or worse? Is it “rounding up” the different aromas together, or is it “cutting down” the parade of tastes?

I couldn’t decide, so I added it as an option; you decide.

The northern autumn forest…Cranberry juice and lemon juice will describe these.

What Passoã has to do with Canada? Well, adding it to the ingredients above creates “a broad taste”; the feel of the vast country…suitable for the second largest country in the world.

Finally… maple syrup is not there just for The Canadian Thing: cocktail needs a tiny bit of added sweetness to work out properly – maple syrup’s taste is gentler than simple syrup’s, works better in this drink.

If you yearn for more cranberry cocktails with kinda similar feel, please check out eg. Robin and/or Man-Bat.

MARRINA

3 parts reposado tequila

3 parts Advocaat

1 part Cointreau

2 parts lemon juice

Create a half rim of sea salt 🙂 in the suitable glass, add a quite a lot of ice. Shake ingredients vigorously with ice and strain into the glass.

Well… it’s been a while since my last ocean-dwelling character cocktails, Marrina Smallwood offered a great chance to explore that kingdom again: for more Sea Cocktails please check out Aquaman and Namor, Mera and Ocean Master and Black Manta. Okay, Hydro-Man isn’t actually “an ocean dude”, but definitively a water-related character.

Okay, I’ve designed quite a few of those… how do I approach one more? How do I offer my readers something new about the subject “superhero from the waves”?

I started thinking about salty sea…”salt? – what relates to salt? – uncivilized peasant drink the cheapest tequila available, and they shoot it with a lick of salt – Hmm, maybe I got something here…”

I tried quite a lot of combinations, traded a sharper blanco tequila for more gentle reposado; realized that Advocaat not just binds everything together nicely but also matches with Marrina’s skin colour; “the additional liqueur” changed from Luxardo Marascino to Triple Sec, I battled with ratios until I realized soft Cointreau rhymes well with soft reposado; salt and tequila cry out for lemon, but what is the right amount etc…

But here it is, Marrina The Cocktail. I’m first to admit that this drink doesn’t particularly well shout out “marine Plodex”, but I think it has a certain ocean feel… of course lemon juice describes the rough seas; tequila, supported by Cointreau, finally fell into a supporting cast, their main role is to act as a connecting bridge between lemon and salt… and the salt: only rim half the glass, and try sipping the drink with or without the salt – the sea can be either rough or gentle.

Of course the Advocaat acts as a soft all-covering blanket which makes the drink deep and kinda “suffocating” (in the right way); without it this might be a namesake drink of a bad guy – now this is Marrina The Cocktail.

Okay, that’s Alpha Flight. The weather is getting warmer here in Finland, so next time there is something more suitable for the spring… see ya 🙂

So it’s Alpha Flight again, and today I’m gonna take a look on its characters who dabble in magic and/or supernatural.

It’s not the first time I’ve designed drinks for wizards and such… usually their drinks end up with very, very strong aromas; well, I guess it’s fine since The Winds of Magic are strong… but hey, let’s try something milder for a change, shall we?

Last wizard to have his namesake drink was Mordru; that cocktail still had quite a twist (although not as “twisty” as, say, my 2nd version of Dr. Strange)… let’s cut down a little, still trying to keep that Magic Touch.

The weapon of choice is vanilla vodka, as I warned you last time; Smirnoff, Stolichnaya… both taste the same to me, no significant difference there.

SHAMAN

1 to 2 parts vanilla vodka

1 to 2 parts extra dry vermouth

1 to 2 parts apple juice

Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Add one small ice cube.

Apple and vanilla go well together, everyone knows that and it’s so simple combo it’s not “a cocktail” worth publishing… but hey, adding the dry spiciness of vermouth changes the game; there’s the fruitfulness of the apple, with a slight hint of sour – there’s sweet mellow vanilla, with a kick of vodka – and the herbs and spices of vermouth.

Maybe this drink doesn’t create a “tornado of magic” in your taste buds, but at least some small breeze, I hope.

So what’s with the ratios, everything is “1 to 2 parts”? Sorry folks, every Test Subject had an opinion about the perfect Shaman The Cocktail… so I thought not to publish one definitive version, but instead courage you to do some exploring 🙂

My personal favourite is 2 vodka, 1,5 vermouth and 1 juice, but some Test Subjects loathed that much vermouth. Your call.

SNOWBIRD

White layer:

2 parts Bols Natural Yoghurt liqueur

1 part vanilla vodka

Light blue layer:

as above, but add some Tabasco sauce and Blue Curacao

Shake layers separately with ice and layer into a small glass with some ice in it, white layer on top (see below). Serve with a straw.

Okay folks, I have an official announcement to make: I’m done with Bols Yoghurt. It has some potential (or so I thought), but I must confess that pretty much the best thing I can do with it is, well, White/Life Lantern.

Trying to mix it with other liqueurs: its taste vanishes completely. Trying to mix it with some hard booze: it instantly starts to separate, no matter the ratio of the mixture. It’s incredible, the liqueur reacts way more than actual dairy products.

So, Snowbird is my last cocktail ever using Yoghurt.

Anyway, about Snowbird The cocktail… let’s just put aside the fact that unpleasant separation starts at the same second vodka and Yoghurt make contact… vanilla and the cool cream work together fine; use just a few drops of Tabasco – the idea is to create just enough “diversion” to make the taste interesting.

Blue Curacao doesn’t actually change the taste at all, just half a spoon will turn the colour right… blue layer’s density is almost the same as white’s, so when you layer the white atop of the blue, the white doesn’t “float” – instead they kinda swirl among each other.

It doesn’t take any inhuman caution to drink Snowbird with a straw without mixing two colours… so maybe the taste of Snowbird The Cocktail doesn’t spell out “magic” as much, but the visual side does – sideways layering, without any molecule gastronomy gimmicks.

Next time… Alpha Flight, part 3. And I think it’s time for Guardian 🙂

Last time I got inspired by freezing weather. Well, The cold weather front is hanging around and I have no other choice but to get more inspired.

Captain Canuck was one of the characters features in the previous post… and I decided to focus on Canada. Aurora and Northstar are published already, but today and in the posts to come I’ll take a closer look on Alpha Flight.

PUCK

2 parts gin

1 part vanilla vodka (Stoli, Smirnoff, what have you)

1 part Strega

1,5 parts Luxardo Maraschino

up to 0,5 part Creme de Cassis

2 parts lemon juice

Shake with ice and strain into an old fashioned glass with some ice in it. Serve with a stirrer… which, I noticed now, is missing from the picture 😐

He might be small, but he’s mighty; so is the drink.

Can’t put it any better way… small and mighty. I didn’t want to settle with a shot glass; I wanted to create a mixture that could be enjoyed longer than a shot, so a bit bigger glass.

Lemon juice doesn’t implicate anything about Puck as a character, it just goes well with the whole… unfortunately the juice starts to separate the drink, hence the stirrer. It might look unpleasant (and that actually bothers me) but the taste is really nice, I dare to say.

By the way… hang onto that vanilla vodka bottle, I’m working on some ideas.

SASQUATCH

around 2 parts Advocaat

around 2 parts the strongest coffee you can create

up to 1 part simple syrup

Shake vigorously with ice and strain into a suitable glass with some crushed ice in it.

What is “strong” coffee? Well, Vietnamese robusta inspired me to design Karma; even without Green Chartreuse, I’ve become a regular robusta slurper.

Let’s take it up a notch… There is also an egg coffee and I started to wonder if someone has tried robusta with Advocaat instead of egg yolk? I’m sure of that, and tried it myself… this might be the best way to enjoy coffee. Period.

Sasquatch The Cocktail might be served in the same sized glass as Puck but personally I think the taste is even mightier: infernally strong coffee, mellowed down by egg liqueur and sugar… I think it describes Walter Langkowski’s demeanor satisfyingly.

Next time… part 2!

It’s frrreezing in Finland now, even here in the Southern part of the country. The weather inspired me to think about heroes/villains from the northern hemisphere… so it’s time to check out Canadian comic book characters again!

You can find the first “O Canada” post here.

CAPTAIN CANUCK

Top layer, white:

Bols Natural Yoghurt

Bottom layer, red:

3 parts De Kyuper Sour Rhubarb

1 part sambuca

couple of dashes of lemon juice

couple of dashes of orange juice

gentle dash of Tabasco sauce

(few drops of sarsaparilla syrup)

red grenadine, should you desire to adjust the colour

Shake layers separately with ice and layer into an old fashioned glass with plenty of ice in it, white on top. Serve with a straw.

I don’t know about you guys, buy I’m kinda fed up with the idea that every single cocktail with Canadian theme should contain maple syrup. Nothing wrong with that, but could we pleeeez have at least one drink without it?

So… Nothing “strikingly Canadian” here (besides the colour theme). I just wanted to create a nice drink with many nuances, maybe with “some brisk Northern breeze” in it.

No, not “outright freezing”, as in Captain Cold, Iceman, Killer Frost or Mr. Freeze… not a blizzard, but a delightfully chilly autumn morning; you know, when air smells fresh – the sun is shining warmly, but occasionally the Northern wind brings its greetings from the Ice Sea.

Wow, poetic… but I feel I kinda fell short of what I had in mind… but nevertheless, it’s a pretty enjoyable drink. Alternate between the layers with a straw: in languid American jokes Canada and its residents are always lame and meek… No, I say; I admire Canada, and this drink proves that it is a big country with lots of features – it sure is more than a safe haven for American draft dodgers (or whatever lame joke you had in mind). I hope I can visit British Columbia one day, as I ranted in my first “O Canada”-post.

And moving on to the next drink…

WENDIGO

1 part De Kyuper Blueberry

1 part Triple Sec

1 part kirschwasser

2 to 3 parts coconut cream

Shake furiously with ice and strain into an old fashioned glass with plenty of ice in it.

I still remember reading this when I was 12 years old…

Jeez, it scared the hell outta me! But still Wendigo fascinated me, and that fascination has carried to this very day. That particular issue has a special place in my memories.

So there is a lot of design philosophy behind Wendigo The Cocktail: when you gaze the ingredients of the drink, you’ll think “Whaaat?!? This looks more like a tropical cocktail than a namesake drink of a monster in the Northern wilderness?!?”

Normal human transforms into an unfathomable beast – “tropical” ingredients turn into a savage cocktail.

You can taste all the “sweet and gentle” aromas: blueberry, coconut… but it’s not just the harsh kirschwasser which turns the whole into something threatening, it’s the sum of them all.

I’m pretty pleased with Wendigo The Cocktail… well, I’m biased since the white hairy beast was one of my favourite comic book abominations as a kid. Anyway, I hope you like it.

By the way… briefly I was pondering if I should try to create something carnal or “meaty” (is it a proper word?), cannibalism being a central theme with Wendigo… but then I remembered my first take on Sabretooth: I liked it, but it turned out I was pretty much the only one 😐

So no bouillon, no “meatiness”… just transforming ingredients into something surprising and mean.

What’s next? Hmm, maybe I should try gathering all the inspiration from this cold weather…?