VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action BTC Lore

Ingredients And Techniques

Ingredients

In the future, real alcohol has become a luxury that your clients can not afford. These compounds are mixed to create your drinks.

Some Ingredients have expiration dates. (Purely lore, this does not affect gameplay.)

Adelhyde - Red - Possibly related to aldehydes, which relate to fragrance.

Bronson Extract - Yellow - Extract from the root of a Bronson Plant

Powdered Delta - Blue - A powder of some sort.

Flanergide - Green - ???

Karmotrine - Cyan - Karmotrine is the tasteless alcohol factor, which determines alcohol content. Drinks without Karmotrine are non-alcoholic.

Techniques

Mixing - To mix a drink mix it for a short period of time. Most drinks are mixed.

Blending - To blend a drink mix it untill it shakes a lot.

Ice - If a client wants a cool drink they usually mean they want one with Ice. If a drink is served "On the Rocks" it means with ice. Ice is hard to get out of your mixning machine.

Age - I'm unsure of what this refers to. Since drinks are made on the spot, they can not be old. Possibly related to the timing of shaking or the age of the ingredients?

Drink Properties And Histories

Drink Properties

There are more properties then these, but these are the primary ones.

Girly - Drinks for feminine clients. These tend to be Sweet and are often a safe bet.

Manly - Drinks for masuline clients. These tend to be disgusting or spicy.

Classic - Classic drinks. These drinks tend to be older style.

Classy - Not to be confused with Classic. Monied clients will tend to prefer these.

Promo Drinks - Gimmick drinks. These drinks exist for odd reasons such as movie pomotions. These are usually disgusting.

Drink List

Drinks with lore outside of their menu description will be hidden with a spoiler tag. I recommend avoiding spoilers until after your first play through. There are some very light spoilers for Read Only Memories as well. To view a spoilered section, hover your mouse over it.

You get a cut of each sale you make and tips, so always select the most expensive drink that makes the customer happiest. If you can't do both, make the customer happy first.

Regular Drinks

Bad Touch

$250

Sour, Classy, Vintage, Cool, Alcoholic

A fairly popular drink.

Many clients like this drink for the name

Beer

$200

Bubbly, Classic, Vintage, Warm, Alcoholic

The beers your serve are fake approximations of real beer.

The favorite drink of Donovan (Big).

This drink appears in Read Only Memories. Brewed locally in Neo SanFransico this beer was wheaty and served ice cold.

Bleeding Jane

$200

Spicy, Classic, Sobering, Warm, Non-Alcoholic

One of the few sobering drinks.

Bloom Light

$230

Spicy, Promo, Bland, Cool, Alcoholic

A fairly expensive bland drink.

Blue Fairy

$170

Sweet, Girly, Soft, Warm, Optionally Alcoholic

Makes your clients teeth blue.

This drink also appeared in Read Only Memories. In ROM it used 4 Adelhyde and 1 Flanergide with optional Karmotrine. It was aged and mixed. Like in VA-11 Hall-A it makes teeth turn blue.

Brandtini

$250

Sweet, Classy, Happy, Warm, Alcoholic

One of the more popular classy drinks.

Alma's favorite drink

Originally a Martini clone, BTC acquired a vermouth brand that was branded around an Automobile company

Cobalt Velvet

$280

Bubbly, Classy, Burning, Cool, Alcoholic

Another popular classy drink.

Crevice Spike

$140

Sour, Manly, Sobering, Warm, Optionally Alcoholic

This drink is interesting because it can be used as a non-alcoholic drink or a very alcoholic drink, making it very versatile.

An under appreciated drink. Good for when a client wants something non-alcoholic.

Fluffy Dream

$170

Sour, Girly, Soft, Warm, Optionally Alcoholic

A versatile girly drink.

In Read Only Memories Fluffy Dreams use 3 Adelhyde and 3 Powdeed Delta with optional karmotrine, aged and mixed. Made tounges feel velvetly, and many made drinkers pass out. A sweet and sour drink in ROM.

Fringe Weaver

$260

Bubbly, Classy, Strong, Warm, Alcoholic

This drink has a very high alcohol content. A big fringe weaver will have 18 Karmotrines!

Frothy Water

$150

Bubbly, Classic, Bland, Warm, Non-Alcoholic

This drink has existed since at least 2040 and is featured in PG TV shows as a stand in for Beer.

Grizzly Temple

$220

Bitter, Promo, Bland, Warm, Alcoholic

A disgusting drink notable for being featured in a movie.

Gut Punch

$80

Bitter, Manly, Strong, Warm, Optionally Alcoholic

The cheapest drink. Unless you are asked for one specifically you should serve something more expensive.

This drink appears in Read Only Memories! It contains 5 Bronson Extract and 1 Karmotrine with optional Karmotrine. It was aged and mixed. According to Gus the name describes what you feel when you drink it. In ROM Gut Punches were Bitter, Sour, and Spicy. At some point Gut Punches lost their spice, because they are not spicy drinks in VA-11 Hall-A

Marsblast

$170

Spicy, Manly Strong, Warm, Alcoholic

Part of the blast series. A popular manly drink.

Mercury Blast

$250

Sour, Classy, Burning, Cold, Alcoholic

Part of the blast series. A rare but useful drink.

Moonblast

$180

Sweet, Girly, Happy, Cold, Alcoholic

Part of the blast series. A popular girly drink.

Dorthy doesn't actually like this drink, but orders them anway.

Piano Man

$320

Sour, Promo, Strong, Cold, Alcoholic

One of the most expensive regular drinks. Serve these whenever you can. The drink is of no relation to the Bar Pianists Union.

Created in honor of a dead pianist who liked the flavors included in the drink.

Kim likes this drink

Despite the BTC index number of 17 this drink doesn't count as having anything to do with the number 17.

Piano Woman

$320

Sweet, Promo, Happy, Warm, Alcoholic

One of the most expensive regular drinks. Serve these whenever you can. It's name used to be "Pretty Woman" but was changed after people protested the name.

Dorthy's favorite drink. Dorthy orders this when she is particuarly happy, or sad.

Piledriver

$160

Bitter, Manly, Burning, Warm, Alcoholic

More alcoholic then the Suplex. Piledrivers are throat burning.

Named after a wrestling move.

It has better name recognition then the suplex too.

Sparkle Star

$150

Sweet, Girly, Happy, Warm, Optionally Alcoholic

This drink used to sparkle, but it caused skin problems so the drink was changed to not include them.

Sugar Rush

$150

Sweet, Girly, Happy, Warm, Optionally Alcoholic

This drink is very popular and versatile.

The easiest drink to make and the first drink BTC employees are trained to make.

Sunshine Cloud

$150

Bitter, Girly, Soft, Cool, Optionally Alcoholic

A unique and useful drink.

This drink appears in Read Only Memories. In ROM it was made with 2 Adelhyde and 2 Bronson Extract with optional Karmotrine. In ROM it was served on the rocks and blended. Gus described it as an adult version of Chocolate Milk, with a hint of caramel taste. Gus describes it as being "Super Sweet".

Suplex

$160

Bitter, Manly, Burning, Cool, Alcoholic

Less alcoholic then a piledriver. Suplex burns the tongue, not the throat.

Named after a wrestling move.

This drink was invented by Gil at VA-11 Hall-A making it a local specialty.

Zen Star

$210

Sour, Promo, Bland, Cold, Alcoholic

Zen Star is a perfect balance of all ingredients, yet is a disgusting drink.

The Zen Star is the only drink with a 20 ingredient minimum. (All drinks have a maximum limit of 20.

A promotional drink for a movie

Bottled Sets

All Bottled drinks cost $500, so whenever you can, serve them.

A Fedora

$500

This drink comes with perfume and a plum.

A certian mysterious client will ask for this once.

Mulan Tea

$500

This spiced tea must be purchased with your funds from J.C. Eltons (The Store).

A certian musical client will want this.

In Read Only Memories a close drink exists in Tokyo Tea. Tokyo Tea is Mealon Liqueur with vodka, rum, tequila, gin, and tripple sec. Gus described it as being like a Long Island and warned against having two due to it's strength.

BTC

This section contains unmarked spoilers.

BTC is the franchise that runs VA11-Hall A, and many other bars.

BTC offers many benefits to it's employees, such as company housing and implants.

BTC likes to crack down on corrupt stores and corrupt employees.

BTC takes a while to acomplish anything

"Time to mix drinks and change lives" is a phrase drilled into employees at orientation.

Va11-Hall-AVa11-Hall-A has thin walls internally, but good security systems.

Va11-Hall-A was originally going to be Va1-Hall-A, but someone else registered it frist. Thus Dana had to wait several months to get the name Va11-Hall-A.

Hassy

What is Hassy?Hassy appears in VA-11 Hall-A as a possible television ad in the bar (Tune in to Channel 9).

Hassy originates from Read Only Memories, where it plays a bigger role.

This section contains unmarked minor spoilers for Read Only Memories.

Hassy Varieties Hassy Zero

Featured on Channel 9 on the TV in VA-11 Hall-A

Hassy Infinity

Contains all of a person's daily required calories, with no nutritional value.

You can get a message about this hassy early on in ROM.

Source: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=721345915

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