Cannibal Reviver cocktail (inspired by The Forest)

Recipe

• 1 oz (30ml) gin (I used Lighthouse)
• .50 oz (15ml) lemon juice
• .50 oz (15ml) yellow Chartreuse
• .50 oz (15ml) Dolin sweet white vermouth
• 2 dashes Peychaud’s Bitters

Add all ingredients to a shaker filled with ice. Shake thoroughly until chilled. Fine strain into your chosen vessel. Serve!
Background
I can’t play The Forest. Not for long, anyway. Not because I don’t like it—I was a backer way back in the very early days of development, and I love how the full version has expanded on that initial foundation. No, I can’t play The Forest because I’m an enormous coward.
I can get through the first few hours, enjoying chopping down trees and building a treehouse, but as soon as I need to descend into the caves to actually progress the story… let’s just say it very quickly turns into brown trousers time.
That’s where the Cannibal Reviver comes in—it gives me the courage I need to continue. Rather than trying to recreate the useful but sadly non-unique in-game Molotov Cocktail, I instead decided to go a little more thematic with this Forest-inspired drink.
Modelled after the supposed “hangover cure” cocktail Corpse Reviver #2, the Cannibal Reviver is an Herbal Medicine+ for the mind. Drawing on the green-and-lush feel of the peninsula, it’s distinctly herbaceous with a touch of anise—perfect as a shot of sanity when the game starts to get a little too sp00ky or when cutting down yet another tree gets a little tedious.
Try swapping the yellow Chartreuse out for green for an even bigger herbal hit.
Hope you enjoy!
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