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This is a fantastic post. You should probably post it up on the Discussion boards for further readage.

btw, i'll be optimistic and assume a lot of these drinks pop up once they install the elite-elite classes . And you thought grinding to master was rough!

Here is some information that I came across regarding beverages in the Star Wars Galaxy. This information is copied from Galaxy Guide 9: Fragments From The Rim, a sourcebook for the old Star Wars Role-Playing Game by West End Games. I think this can be used to help enhance the role-playing aspect of the Chef profession, as well as add some colorful descriptions to the items we sell. I particularly like the description of the Elshandruu Pica Thundercloud, but unfortunately only some of these beverages have been included in SWG. At any rate, enjoy.

Deste Freewave, Novice Chef - Starsider Galaxy.

No liability is accepted for injuries or illness resulting from sampling items on the following drinks list. Customers are advised to check for species compatibility before ordering.
-Sign at Margath's on Elshandruu Pica, Quence Sector.

The high technology of the Star Wars galaxy allows the production of some thoroughly weird and wonderful beverages.

Lum

A particularly powerful beverage, favored mainly in and around Corellian space, but known throughout the galaxy. It is often used in a drinking competition called "lumguzzling." A pitcher of lum is usually quite large, and in smaller quantities the drink tastes sweet and slightly soapy (but not unpleasantly so).

Lum has peculiar effects on a body - while the imbiber often feels the effects of more standard forms of alcohol, for some reason, a drinker cannot overdose on lum as he can with other types of beverages. Therefore, lumguzzling isn't nearly as dangerous for the participants as other types of drinking games are.

Renan Irongut

This drink is named simply enough after what you need to drink it. Tradition has it that the potion also makes a potent rust remover. However, as this drink costs around 3 to 5 credits (obviously, the old role-playing game had a much different economic model that SWG) a shot, it's much cheaper to buy real rust remover and use that; so far no one has gotten around to testing the brewer's claims.

Elshandruu Pica Thundercloud

This mixed drink has been likened to watching a starfighter flying towards you from the horizon: you can see it coming...you see it flash overhead...there is a brief pause...followed by an almighty and completely unexpected explosion of sound as the shockwave passes.

The name "thundercloud" arose because the active ingredients of the drink produce a "fizzy" effect which creates a miniature cloud of ionized gas above the mouth of the serving glass. Most establishments serve this drink in a container that fires tiny microshocks into the cloud, simulating an electrical storm.

Pink Lizard Thunderbolt

An interesting variant on the above. For added realism, the drinker can taste the mud from the ground after being knocked over by the sound wave.

The drink is named after its inventor - a small, scaly lizard of indeterminate species, gender and color (most people who have tried the drink had difficulty focusing their eyes afterwards) who popped up in one of Margath's bars off and on for a number of years. After inventing this potion, it never drank anything else, and the brew was eventually named in its honor.

Starshine Surprise

This drink is called the Starshine Surprise because, after you've drunk it, the next thing you notice will be the stars above you, probably because you are laying flat on your back in the street (which is quite a surprise if you're not expecting it). This drink is only for non-Humans and the most hardened of Human drinkers.

Tatooine Sunburn

Tatooine is a binary system; a Tatooine sunburn is two Starshine Surprises in the same glass. Don't ever try a Cassandra Sunrise (it is rumored that one of these makes excellent sunburn salve, but only if you have extremely thick skin).

Skannbult Likker

Skannbult Likker, a brew common to the planet Skann in Astal Sector, is possibly the most volatile fire-water in the galaxy. It is made from local surplus crops (Dust-Corn and Dry Gene Wheat), and distilled in rock basins by the local farmers. However, the Likker's quality is very variable, and the good stuff is only brewed by the smaller farmers way out of town. Traders rarely encounter anything but the quick-brewed rotgut on offer at the Skann spacers' bar. Margath's on Eishandruu Pica has recently laid in a small supply of the good stuff, but Kina Margath, the proprietress, is far too good a businesswoman to reveal where it comes from or her supplier.

Daranu

Another obscure drink, this time from Parein II 4 in Sarin Sector. Daranu is made from a local fruit called Terrberries and certain spicy nuts, and is fermented in drilled, scooped-out hardnut shells from Parein Sweetgreen Fruit. It is rich, refreshing, warming, and hits you like a well-aimed blaster shot about half an hour later.

The Reactor Core

Many hardened drinkers claim that this beverage should only be available by prescription, mainly because of the quantity of narcotic agents that are released by mixing Spice Liqueur and Blue Tonic. The people who drink it claim that this is complete nonsense, no narcotic agents are released and...by the way, did you know you've just turned into a lampstand?

The Meltdown

Supposedly a more sophisticated drink than the above, the presence of Lum and Spice Liqueur in close proximity means this drink doesn't need to release narcotic agents to have exactly the same effect as the more conservative brew just described. The drink is much more expensive, however.

Corellian Whiskey

The Corellians have, for all practical purposes, sewn up the galaxy's whiskey market, both on the manufacturing and consumption sides (anyone who has just seen how much whiskey the average Corellian consumes will agree with the sentiment). Not many other people buy the stuff, anyway. It may be good quality, but because of the cost of importing it from the Corellian System itself, most people consider it too expensive to drink on any but the most special occasions.

Savareen Brandy

There is a lot of snobbery associated with the consumption of quality brandy. Savareen and Cassandran brandy are probably the only types actually worthy of all the arcane procedures that dedicated brandy drinkers like to indulge themselves in. As far as anyone else is concerned - yes, they're "quite nice."

Cassandran Choholl

Their brandy may be good; their Choholl is better. Grada brand Cassandran Choholl is particularly sought after throughout most of the galaxy.

Other Drinks

Every inhabited planet in the galaxy produces intoxicating drinks of some kind. The ones described above are a small selection of the best-known. The dedicated may find Renan wines, KyLessian Fruit Distillate, Orryxian Catsblood, vintage Bespin Port, Spice Liquor, Ottegan Mead, even Narcolethe from the Mandalore system and Endrollian ground-apple juice (which isn't supposed to be alcoholic, but which often ferments during storage). There are drinks brewed from plants, drinks brewed from trees, even one brewed, with the help of some particularly powerful bacteria and an unusual planetary atmosphere, from solid rock!

If the delights of the galaxy's spirits pall, there is plenty of good honest beer to be quaffed. Fozbeer, Fox Beer (not as bad as it sounds), Ryll beer, spice beer, Thuris Stout, lagers, fortified beers, ciders, and so on. The only limit is your liver's ability to endure the search.

I'm still tickled by the fact that the two starshine slots in the Sunburn schematic is canon.

(well, kinda canon, the RPG sourcebooks were semi-official, right?)

The old RPG was officially licensed by Lucasarts, so one can only assume that the material there-in would be considered at least "semi-official." I've been a Star Wars buff for many years, and have never encountered anything in those materials that I would consider to "go against" what I consider to be official Star Wars material.

Now, once the existing Chef issues get resolved in SWG, we need to get the developers to add The Reactor Core!