A twist on a classic adapted straight from the in-game recipe that’s just as pretty as a nuclear sunrise.
You’ll need
- 2oz silver tequila
- 0.75oz creme de cassis
- Orange juice
Add the silver tequila to a Collins glass filled with ice. Top it up with orange juice (but not quite all the way). Pour the creme de cassis over the back of a spoon to layer it to the bottom of the glass. Add a straw. Serve!
“Just don’t ask what it’s made from.”
– Duchess to recently
This drink originally debuted on The Fallout Hub videocast. Go check it out and tell them I said hi!
A Tequila Sunrise is probably one of the most popular tequila drinks in the world. If you have silver tequila, orange juice, some grenadine and a steady hand, you can make this simple, pretty layered drink with only a tiny bit of effort.
So it’s not a surprise that the Fallout 76 crew decided to include it as one of the handful of mixed drinks craftable ingame, the other tequila-based one being a margarita—what else?
Loving your time in Fallout 76? Try the Nukashine next – a cocktail that really glows.
In recreating the Tick Blood Tequila Sunrise, I took inspiration from both the real life original and the slight tweak they made to the recipe in the game in the form of removing the orange juice and adding “mutfruit juice”. What’s that? I’m glad you asked.
Mutfruit comes up a lot in Fallout recipes, but it’s never super clear what it is. Sometimes it looks like an apple, sometimes like a blackberry, sometimes like… well, nothing at all. In Fallout 76, however, I think it looks a lot like a messed up blackcurrant. So when my recreation called for “mutfruit juice”, I instead took the original Tequila Sunrise recipe and replaced the grenadine with blackcurrant liqueur, or ‘creme de cassis’.
With this one change, you get a significantly different drink. You can still layer it (as demonstrated in the video above), and it’s still sweet, but the darker berries notes provide a far more interesting base note than the typical grenadine does. Plus you get a far more dark red, gory sunrise – which only seems appropriate for a drink whose chief ingredient is made out of literal blood.
Hope you enjoy! Cheers!
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