Red Potion (The Legend of Zelda cocktail)

Ingredients:
8 oz Cran-Apple juice
1.5 oz Kraken Black Spiced Rum
0.5 oz blanco tequila

Directions: Combine all ingredients in a glass/bottle on ice. Eddie recommends starting with the tequila first, so that the smell doesn’t overpower the drink.

Drink created and photographed by Eddie Strickland.

Yoko Kanno (Cowboy Bebop cocktail)

Ingredients:
1.5 oz Rye Whiskey
1 oz Sake
.5 oz Cointreau
1 dash of Peychaud’s bitters

Directions: Combine all ingredients in a shaker, add ice, shake, and strain.

Yoko Kanno is the composer behind legendary soundtracks such as Cowboy Bebop, Wolf’s Rain, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, and others. This drink was created with the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack in mind, as explained by Eddie, the creator:

I had the idea for this drink after listening to the soundtrack to Cowboy Bebop. It’s easy to do drinks based on a character, location, or a series, but no one has done a drink based on an abstract concept like music. I figured it was high time to have a truly jazzy drink and you can’t get much more jazzy than Rye Whiskey. The name for the drink comes from the composer of the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack, Yoko Kanno. 

See you, Space Cowboy.

Drink created and photographed by Eddie Strickland.

Lavender Town Syndrome (Pokemon cocktail)

Ingredients:
2 oz Hpnotiq
1 oz Vodka (Regular or 100 proof for an extra kick)
.25 oz Grenadine
6 oz Sprite

Directions: Mix all ingredients in a tall glass over ice. Serve and tell ghost stories.

A note from the creator: This drink was inspired by the Lavender Town Syndrom urban legends that have become popularized on the internet.

It is said that during the earliest run of the original Pokemon games, many children reported interesting symptoms. After playing for many hours and prolonged listening to the original music played in Lavender Town, some children reported having severe headaches, feeling very depressed and even some suicidal tendencies. Upon investigation, it was found that there was a hidden undertone in the original music for Lavender Town. It is believed that it was these hidden undertones that caused “Lavender Town Syndrome”. The music was modified slightly for further releases, the undertones were removed, and the syndrome seemed vanish. 

Drink created and photographed by Eddie Strickland.

[Video - Lavender Town Music]

Space Pirate (Metroid cocktail)

Ingredients:
3/4 oz. Dark Rum
3/4 oz. Wray and Nephew 151 White Overproof Rum 
3/4 oz. Bacardi Oakhart Spiced Rum
1 oz. Blue Curacao
1/2 oz. simple syrup
1/2 oz. lime juice
1/4 oz. Blackberry Brandy
1/4 oz. grenadine
1/4 oz. Fee Brothers Falernum
1 dash of Angustora Bitters

Directions: Mix everything except the Spiced Rum in a tall glass. Fill it with Ice cubes (the bigger available the better, crushed ice melts too quickly). Layer the Spiced Rum on top. Lightly palm the sprig of Mint over top of the drink and slowly plunge it into the glass. With the straw, gently push the spiced rum into the drink, sip and enjoy!

Drink created and photographed by Eddie Strickland.

Vera (Firefly cocktail)

Ingredients:
2 oz. Bourbon whiskey
1/2 oz. Bacardi 151
1/2 oz. Sake
3/4 oz ginger syrup
3-4 dashes Angostura Bitters

Instructions for Ginger Syrup:
1 cup of water
1 cup of sugar
1/2 cup fresh diced Ginger
In a pot or large pan, add the water, sugar, and half of the ginger in the beginning.  Boil for 1-2 minutes while mixing. Then add the other half once the first batch gets mushy. This makes it nice and spicy.  Let sit until everything is nice and syrupy, then remove from the stove and let cool. 

Directions: Add ginger syrup and bitters to an Old Fashioned Glass.  Next add the rum and whiskey. Fill with cubed ice then float the Sake on top. Before drinking, give the glass a quick swirl to lightly distribute Sake.

Note from the creator:

I figured if Jane would drink a cocktail, it would be one of the original and manliest of cocktails, and Old-Fashion. But in the Firefly universe, American and Chinese cultures have mixed, so I felt it needed an Asian twist. This is where the ginger syrup and Sake comes in. The Bacardi 151 bumps the manliness factor of this drink up by giving a much higher alcohol content, plus the Bacardi gives an extra spicy, smokey flavor. Enjoy yourself a Vera.

“This is my very favorite gun… I call it Vera” -Jayne Cobb 

Drink created and photographed by Eddie Strickland.