The EA Drinks: From The Cachaca Left 4 Dead to the Mass Effect Lotus Vodka
When Electronic Arts takes over a bar, they don't just throw up a bunch of gaming kiosks and a couple of Communist slogan-themed logos, they also come up with their very own list of game-themed drinks.
Here's the breakdown:
Battlefield: Bad Company: Herradura silver tequila, cointreau and fresh squeezed lime served on the rocks.
Battlefield: Heroes: Hendrick's gin, fresh rasberry, cucumber, shaken and strained, served up with a splash of kumquat dry soda.
Left 4 Dead: Fresh muddled lime wedges, mango puree, cachaca, shaken and poured over rocks.
Warhammer Online: Oronoco rum, freshly squeezed lime, simple syrup and muddled cucumbers, shaken hard poured over ice.
Dead Space: Maker's Mark, carpano antica sweet vermouth, disaronno amaretto, served up with a cherry.
Rock Band: Drink like a rockstar, Skyy citrus, fresh lemon and lime, served sparkling in a tall glass.
Skate It: Jameson, fresh lemon, ginger beer, a touch of blood orange bitters and pomegranate.
Mass Effect: Fresh basil, Lotus vodka and fresh lime juice served straight up.
9:40 AM on Wed May 14 2008
by Brian Crecente
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I am so trying a mass effect on friday after work...
demonspawn2578
Haha I think this was quite funny.
TearsandScreams
@108:
That's NOT FAIR. that was low hanging fruit!
Parapraxis
@108:
Assuming "Too Human" will be a bottle of piss, then yes.
Riotpoll
@108: nominating myself for comment of the week again
108
What was "Too Human"? A bottle of Budweiser and a shotgun?
108
@obonicus: I was going to say that :)
Pentex
Peter Moore
The point of this drink is for it to show the color of whatever is behind it, so... straight up vodka.
calnick0
this event was at the supperclub in San Francisco and was full of wankers. Super lame...
shaneone5000
Ooh! Lemme try! Lemme try!
The Madden: Wild Turkey, Cold Duck, and Chicken Broth
The Sims: A shot of Everclear, and a gallon of water
boopadoo
@Solarion: and the ping pong paddle they were going to use to scoop out the bills?
sirsonik
That is quite the line up
AqueousBeef
I have a hard time believing the picture...the drinks I can handle...that picture though. Really, EA?
Mecharine
@Eyerox:
THIS
The Mass Effect sounds pretty inteteresting, tho. Never considered using fresh basil in a drink. But it just so happens that I have it growing on my window sill. I'm tipping one back for Commander Sheppard.
BlackdogGT
@Atheist Jew:
As someone who likes to drink but who isn't keen on throwing up, believe me when I say it's more than possible to drink and enjoy yourself and not regret it in the morning.
There's a big difference between social drinking and getting drunk off your ass. But hey, teetotaler's are cool with me, someone needs to be designated driver :p)
skullivan
EA just went up a few notches, in my book. That's awesome.
Daiden
While I love a good cachaça, I really don't think lemon+mango would work that great together...
solar_tf
The 'Left 4 Dead' cocktail sounds like a pain in the ass to make. Every time I have to make an old fashioned and muddle all that shit, its a giant pain in the ass.
ThisCharmingMan
I guess I'm a little disappointed that these drinks have nothing to do with the games they represent, unlike the drinks presented to us by Mansteak, Parapraxis, Polterg3ist, and Eyerox. See now, all those make sense to me.
peAr_nectAr
Man, I'd take a Jack and Coke over every single one of those drinks any day.
RonCey
Condemed 2 smoothie:
Buttermik, Wild Turkey, Black Tar Heroin, stirred with a rusty nail and served in a highball filled with ice chips.
Eyerox
The Sims Special:
Your first purchase goes toward a glass and some vodka. Ice now available for 3.99! Lime slices coming next month!
Polterg3ist
Inner pedant: cachaça is spelled like so. There's an 's' sound for the last c (and a 'sh' sound for the ch).
obonicus
Sonic Speedball:
Red Bull, Rockstar, Monster, and crystal Meth served in a gold rimmed glass. garnish with emeralds and two tails.
Parapraxis
Mushroom Kingdom Cocktail:
Aged Vodka distilled from turtle shells, served in a lead pipe, with a Psilocyban mushroom as garnish.
Parapraxis
@Atheist Jew:
Honestly, I agree. I hate to drink. Except for Jack Daniels and Chocolate Schnapps, of all things. Basically, I won't drink something if it doesn't taste good, no matter what it'll do to me. I hate cough syrup, too. Same reason.
tzaketh
How about some drinks that don't involve us drowning ourselves in alcohol? I will never understand the compulsion of social drinking. It seems like one of the most stupid things a person can do, and yet getting drunk off your ass is somehow socially acceptable.
Atheist Jew
If you look close enough at that EA logo you can tell that those fists belong to the EA executive management team, but what you can't see is that the EA marketing folks actually air-brushed out what was their original idea and that is to have those fists going up the asses of their customers and pulling out $60.00 dollar bills.
Solarion
My only point of contention is the Rock Band beverage. The actual rock star instructions are so:
Open cheap whisky.
Pour into mouth in large gulps.
Repeat until bottle is empty.
Mansteak
Hmmm, sounds quite delicious. Saved for a later date when I have more cash and a hankering for some hard liquor.
SpishackCola
So next time you see a glowing review for an EA product here on Kotaku, it was probably because the 'journalist' was drunk off his ass.
Remember that.
Cloral
@SlowDeath420:"You know,the fact they bothered to spend the time and money on this makes me feel ill:
It actually kind of makes me feel thirsty ;)
homernoy
My god... some of those sound really good. *heads to fridge and liquor cabinet... rummage rummage rummage* Sweet! Cucumbers!
TheMagnificen7
If only we could get full recipes for these drinks...I could definitely go for a Dead Space right about now. I do love me some Maker's Mark...
kongamaniac
@Eirias:
very much so.
Lot Krotan
Wow. Lotus makes an "energy" vodka. That disturbs me for some reason.
Eirias
Cucumbers are a vastly underutilized drink resource.
Eirias
So... EA is actually playing up the Iron Curtain descending across the continent of gaming and stifling originality and creativity, somehow inducing the fundamental nature of communism using the most fundamental nature of capitalism?
Maybe they've got this figured out. If one of the Presidential Candidates would just come out and say "Yeah, I'm going to run the country into the fucking ground, and there's nothing you can do about it because the only candidates left will too!", he'd get votes for being honest.
tzaketh
Can't I just get a regular coke...or perhaps even Hi-C.
Mikey G
You know,the fact they bothered to spend the time and money on this makes me feel ill.
SlowDeath420
holy crap im impressed!
djbrandon
That pic is...wrong.
yashichi8bit