Uncork your vials and get ready for a infusion of bourbon, sloe gin, vermouth and orange bitters.
You’ll need
- 1.50 oz (45ml) Wild Turkey bourbon
- .50 oz (15ml) Dolin sweet white vermouth
- .75 oz (20ml) sloe gin
- 2 dashes Angostura orange bitters
Add all ingredients to a shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously to chill. Strain into your vessel. Pray for strength against the coming dark. Serve!
“Once a patient has had their blood ministered, a unique but
– On the Blood Vial, Bloodborne
common treatment in Yharnam, successive infusions recall
the first, and are all the more invigorating for it.”
Bloodborne has a bit of of an obsession with blood—I mean, it’s right there in the title. The enemies are bloody, the weapons are bloody, the story is bloody; hell, even the healing items are made from the stuff. It’s pretty nasty: injecting a vial of anonymous plasma to get your health back? Yuck.
But I guess it’s thematically consistent at least, and certainly unique and memorable. Plus it’s nice to have SOME kind of healing item in a merciless game like Bloodborne, even if it is gross. You’ll need plenty of them to beat back the terrors of the Blood-Starved Beast and the Bloodlicker and the Bloodgel and the Bloody Crow of Cainhurst and…
You get the point.
Looking for more Bloodborne cocktails? Check out the Pungent Blood Cocktail!
Making drinks inspired by Bloodborne inevitably requires some kind of crimson ingredient: raspberry simple syrup, grenadine, cherry brandy, something like that. But I’ve used those to death in the past and wanted to try something new; enter the sloe gin.
Combined with the bourbon, vermouth and bitters, you get something vaguely akin to a Manhattan, though with far more distinct fruit notes and a dab of citrus-y goodness from the bitters, rather than the deep, savoury notes of a typical Manhattan.
Here’s to another careful exploration of Yharnam. Cheers!
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