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Port, Cointreau, brandy and chocolate bitters come together to provide a crafting recipe for an important potion component in Outward.

You’ll need

1oz (30ml) brandy

1.50oz (45ml) ruby port

.50oz (15ml) Cointreau

.50oz (15ml) rich simple syrup

Whole small egg

Chocolate bitters

Add all ingredients except the bitters to a shaker filled with ice. Shake thoroughly to chill. Strain and discard ice. Shake again, hard, for 30 seconds. Strain into your vessel. Dash with chocolate bitters. Serve!

“Mana cost -20%. Physical Resistance 15%. Impact Resistance -15%.” – In-game item description, Gaberry Wine

Outward is a game with a learning curve. There’s no tutorial, really, and no way to know whether the creature up ahead spells great loot or your doom.

The only way to find out is to fight, explore, and, eventually, die because you made a stupid mistake. You’ll know better for next time.

Gaberry Wine is one of those “mistakes”. With how common Gaberries are in the game world, and the fact you can craft Gaberry Jam, I was always under the impression it was an easily made resource – the fact it’s included in many potion recipes only reinforced that.

But the reality is quite different. And, in fact, during one particularly memorable early-game encounter, my lack of Gaberry Wine resulted in the death and imprisonment of my character.

I’ll not make that mistake again, so I made my own, real life version of a crafting recipe for Gaberry Wine.

Looking for other wine-based cocktails? Try the Cliff Racer from The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim.

This drink is based on a Port Flip, though with a couple of additions. Without the Cointreau and the bitters, the drink felt a little bland and boring; far from the apparently mystically enhancing beverage that is Gaberry Wine, the base of so many potent elixirs.

Adding these ingredients both increases the sweetness and introduces some deeper, darker notes to what is otherwise quite a simple drink. Definitely worth the effort of crafting. Cheers!

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