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A light blue tropical drink cartoon with a straw and a citrus wheel

“FAILURE… But it didn't work… nope… Absorbed… Don't worry about it… I'm lovin' it.” - Memoryhead, UNDERTALE



Inspiration

Undertale’s true pacifist ending reveals information regarding Dr. Alphys’ controversial determination experiments. If you don’t want spoilers, turn back now.


Within Alphys’ True Lab roam a collection of creatures known as Amalgamates, quite literally the fused bodies of deceased (fallen) monsters. To proceed through the true pacifist route, the fallen human must battle five such monsters. Seeing as each Amalgamate in the game is composed of many monsters, it felt fitting that my own Amalgamate (in drinkable form) should also be a composition of multiple monsters…


The five Amalgamates: Memoryhead, Lemon Bread, Reaper Bird, Endogeny, and Snowdrake’s Mother were combined together to create the concoction you see before you. Unlike Dr Alphys who decided to keep taking care of her Amalgamates and seal them in the True Lab, I consumed my creation and continue to keep their remaining pieces in cold storage.



Workshopping

Well that was a cryptic intro, wasn’t it? For this cocktail, the ingredients are in fact cocktails themselves. For example, instead of mixing two ounces of bourbon with one ounce of sweet vermouth and bitters, you mix three ounces of Manhattan. Get it?


The question then became, which cocktails should we mix as ingredients? For each one, I took their name and mapped it to a cocktail that I know of. I then batched those drinks and kept them in a freezer to see if they could be kept indefinitely. Some of them fared better in the freezer than others



Memoryhead

Instead of keeping memories in your head, why not boot them out? The cocktail called the Mind Eraser uses coffee liqueur, vodka, and club soda to do just that! The batched recipe I used for Memoryhead included:

  • 1 part Mr. Black Coffee Liqueur

  • 1 part Vodka

  • *Soda water, excluded


I excluded the club soda since I would be storing this batch in the freezer. This batch had no signs of freezing and stayed completely liquid.



Lemon Bread

Due to its smell, Lemon Bread is named as such. The Lemon Drop cocktail was used as the base for this Amalgamate. To make a freezer-door-ready lemon drop, combine:

  • 3 parts Vodka

  • 1 part Lemon Juice

  • 1 part Simple Syrup

  • 1 part Cointreau (or other orange liqueur)


You can keep this one in the freezer as well, however I found that the lemon pulp collected towards the center. It didn’t appear to be freezing, but it’s presence in the center seemed uncanny enough to comment on. After a few more months in cold storage, the pulp of this cocktail froze solid and separated from the rest of the alcohol, thereby freeze distilling it further. I’ve yet to taste the resulting separation.



Reaper Bird

I only know of two birds in the cocktail world, and one of them is the Jungle Bird. The batching recipe I used for this Amalgamate was:

  • 3 parts Myers’s Dark Rum

  • 3 parts Pineapple Juice

  • 1 part Campari

  • 1 part Simple Syrup

  • 1 part Lime Juice


This one became a solid, yet pliable mass when tested in the freezer, so I recommend keeping this one in a refrigerator unless you’d like to take time to dethaw it first before consuming.



Endogeny

Endogeny is quite literally a mass of various dog monsters in Undertale, and my favorite dog cocktail has to be a Salty Dog. This one in particular I was curious to batch with since some memory of mine from a science class once upon a time reminded me that salt affects the freezing/boiling points of water. I batched our salty dog with these proportions:

  • 1 part Vodka

  • 2 parts Grapefruit Juice

  • ⅛ tablespoon per 3 ounces of liquid


This batch too became a slushy block like the Reaper Bird, so I’d also recommend refrigerating this one. Of note too is how salty this particular ratio was. It was my first attempt at batching this and I think something about freezing everything made the salt not work super well in bulk. You can definitely get away with using less salt. If you do you can salt-adjust the final Amalgamate cocktail with a couple drops of saline solution.



Snowdrake’s Mother

This particular analog was a fun one. Nowhere in my brain could I come up with any other “mother” cocktail (that wasn’t some arbitrary drink for Mother’s Day) than the Adios Motherfucker. It’s essentially another Long Island iced tea but with blue curaçao and some other adjustments. Batch yours and store it as a slush in the freezer by combining:

  • 1 part Vodka

  • 1 part White Rum (Bacardi)

  • 1 part Tequila Blanco (Hornitos)

  • 1 part Gin (Banker’s Club)

  • 1 part Blue Curaçao (Bols)

  • 1 part Lime Juice

  • 1 part Lemon Juice

  • 2 parts Simple Syrup


As noted above, this one will turn into a slush when frozen, however it didn’t make it any less difficult to measure out, so I kept it in there. After a few more months in cold storage, the blue colored pulp of this cocktail froze solid and separated from the rest of the alcohol, thereby freeze distilling it further. I’ve yet to taste the resulting separation.



Amalgamates… Combined

Now, you technically don’t have to measure out all of these drinks and batch them like I did. If you want more for later, you totally should. You should also label them using Amalgamate stickers. In case you want ‘em, here’s a link to the sheet I used.

Due to the variation in temperature and densities of all the individual Amalgamate drinks, there’s a bit of a layering effect that can be achieved if you pour these over ice in a tall glass. At least in my own determination experiments, the layers tend to be darker towards the top and blue and light on the bottom.


In case you’d like to just skip straight to the point, then this is the spec that you would use to create a single serving of Amalgamate without any batching (because science is dead):


Note: Final amounts approximated for ease of reading. Want the full and honest calculation?

  • Spirits

    • 1.5 oz (44 ml) Vodka

    • 1 1/3 tsp (6.5 ml) Tequila Blanco

    • 1 1/3 tsp (6.5 ml) Gin

    • 1 1/3 tsp (6.5 ml) White Rum

    • 2 tsp (10 ml) Dark Rum

  • Liqueurs

    • 1/2 oz (15 ml) Coffee Liqueur

    • 1/4 oz (7 ml) Orange Liqueur

    • 1 1/3 tsp (6.5 ml) Blue Curaçao

    • 2/3 tsp (3 ml) Campari

  • Juices

    • 1/2 oz (15 ml) Lemon Juice

    • 2 tsp (10 ml) Lime Juice

    • 2 tsp (10 ml) Grapefruit Juice

    • 2 tsp (10 ml) Pineapple Juice

  • Adjusters

    • 3/4 oz (22 ml) Rich Simple Syrup (2:1 Ratio Sugar to Water by Weight)

    • 2 drops of Saline Solution (1:1 Ratio Salt to Water by Weght)

  • Shake & Strain over Ice in a Tall Glass



Flavor Analysis

When mixed all together the Amalgamate tastes most prominently of sweet spiced coffee and a citrus fruitiness. Tangy molasses flavors hide within the sweetness of the citrus ingredients. The citrus feels evenly split with a slight bias toward lemon. The entire experience leaves your mouth tasting like coffee that had too much sugar in it.

Amalgamate

Amalgamate

  • 2 oz (59 ml) Snowdrake's Mother
  • 1.5 oz (44 ml) Lemon Bread
  • 0.5 oz (15 ml) Endogeny
  • 1 oz (30 ml) Reaper Bird
  • 1 oz (30 ml) Memoryhead

Method: Layer over Each Other and Ice

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