Abandon Ship! Children and drink menus first!
Abandon Ship! Children and drink menus first!
Jul 03
So, as mentioned previously, The Star Trek Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton is coming to an end, leaving a less nerdy world in its wake. According to their website, this was as planned – being Vegas, the experience was only intended to be 10 years long. I would have to see something from 1998 to believe that, but for now, I shall defer to the PR blurbing on their site.
No more Star Trek weddings. No more themed dinner missions. No more heavily costumed wait staff.
And no more themed drinks. BELAY THAT ORDER!
The drinks must live, and to that end, I’m on a mission to retro-engineer them as best I can. I say retro, instead of reverse, because I’ve never had any of them. But if you can mix booze, fruit juice, ice, and Star Trek, I’m in. And based on their website, I think there’s a good shot at recreating their, well, shots.
Warp Core Breach
10 oz (1 and 1/4 cups) of 5 rums
Razzmatazz (Americans, please explain)
Fruit juices (this will be the tricky part – was it citrusy or smooth?)
Ice from Exo III (or in a pinch, dry ice from the grocery store, planet Earth)
Risa Colada
(Lt. Commander Rupert Holmes approved)
Coconut Rum
Blue Curacao
Pina Colada (mix, presumably)
Ice cream (vanilla or coconut?)
– blend, whip cream on top
Systems Overload
(hint – tastes like an Astropop)
Blavod Black Vodka (or vodka with all the colours in the food colour box)
99 Apples (a liqueur. If you get 99 actual apples, you’re doing it wrong)
Melon Liqueur
Grenadine
Sour Mix
– Layer grenadine, green stuff in the middle (melon and 99 apples? with or without sour mix), black vodka on top. Rim of martini glass covered in crystals – sour mix? green coloured sugar?
Cardassian Cooler
Melon Liqueur
Citrus Vodka
Triple Sec
Sour Mix
– All I know about mixed drinks is that Triple Sec should be used lightly compared to the straight booze.
If anyone would like to pick one and experiment along with me, I wouldn’t say no – let me know which one you pick, for organizational purposes.
[UPDATE!] – I’ve found a supposed recreation of the ST: Experience recipe for a Warp Core Breach, which will take the guess work out of the rum balance – still, we need someone who’s tried one to confirm the taste (and yes, the dry ice is important, as it carbonates the mix.)
I’m so in. I’ll try whatever everyone else wants to. I think Razzmatazz is an unfortunately-named liquer.
I know for a fact that you guys have far easier access to dry ice than we do up here – I don’t know why, but you guys can get it at any major grocery store. Here, we have to hunt a bit. So, I vote Matt does the Warp Core Breach.
I found a quote from a former bartender form Quark’s who gave the following recipe:
Warp Core Breach
Here is the recipe for the Warp Core Breach. We usually made ours in large batches, but it can be easily broken down. Here we go:
* 6 parts Bacardi Superior (or any white, clear, cheap rum out there)
* 4 parts Bacardi Limon (or any lemon rum you can find)
* 2 Parts Bacardi Select (Meyers Dark rum also works, or whatever dark rum your store has)
* 2 parts Bacardi Spice (Captain Morgans also works, but any spice rum will do)
* 2 parts Dekuyper Lucious Raspberry Rush (formerly known as Razzmatazz, this is the most important part, other Raspberry liqueurs don’t seem to work)
* 1 part Bacardi 151 (any 151 proof rum will do, since they all seem to taste like gasoline by themselves)
* 30 oz (1.5 bottles) Sobe Power (finding Aceorla/passion berry juice is too hard to find so just use Sobe Power, besides, the caffeine in the Sobe Power ads an extra kick to the drink)
Mix the alcohol, pour out 10 oz into a bowl, add the 30 oz of Sobe Power, and food-grade dry ice and there you have it, the Warp Core Breach.
Oh, and Barry brought up an interesting thing about the Warp Core. A long time ago, they used to use a mix of equal parts cranberry juice, pineapple juice, and orange juice in the Warp Core instead of Sobe Power. Some prefer this juice mix and some prefer the Sobe. I say, use whichever you like best.