Thank you 🙏 a lot of work, but totally worth it - just watched your Sweet Roll video! Let me know if you ever want to collab like I did with Talviel’s Kitchen on the Sujamma one, I’ve got a few projects in the works that I think would be a good fit!
I would say the closest real-world skooma would be something like opium. It's smoked and drank (as laudanum), is extremely addictive, has a strong mellowing effect, is derived from a natural source, and has been the root of severe inter-cultural problems. Also given that the TES world is roughly similar to the middle ages/renaissance, and opium is the world's oldest drug, it fits more as a fantasy analogue than just weird liquor or weed.
I like this assessment! Skooma's a tricky one with the simultaneous upper/downer representations, but those are some solid connections with poppy/moon sugar and their respective more potent processed forms. In terms of real-world recipes we can safely make/ingest, I'd say my final recipe got just about as close as legally possible...
Welcome to the channel! I try to make things interesting regardless of consumption with the lore explorations and the overall presentation, so I'm glad you're enjoying!
Absolutely love this video, along with everything else you're doing! I actually just bought the stuff to make water off life, but I'll use honeyshine instead of standard vodka. Can't wait!
Well done, Nic. I now want to go down Elder Scrolls lore rabbitholes while properly skooma zooted 🤣 Genuinely fantastic video. I don't know how you keep stepping it up with the last few! All the editing and lore knowledge adds such heart and polish to the finished video.
Thanks Alina! Think I gotta space out the more lore-heavy videos if I want to maintain a good release schedule though... it's been pretty nonstop these past couple months 😂💀
First of all I love your channel. I recently (about a year ago) got into home brew due to wanting to make Skyrim mead and you did just that. In addition, your production efforts are phenomenal. Stellar job. Second, what is the ratio of your Skyrim cookbook to knock off absinth ratio? I would love to recreate this and try it. Thanks a ton 🤩
Appreciate it! It's been an evolving process and I've enjoyed honing the craft over the years to the point where the videos are at now. I would say that for the ratio, just a drop of the absinthe would suffice - it's a potent flavor! There are also "atomizers" which are really just tiny spray bottles for alcohol and I think one spritz of absinthe on the top would do the trick. It's also really good over ice!
@@quenchquestdrinks Lemme guess, perma-silent treatment eh? Well worry not, cat’s are fickle and I’m sure her brother we’ll warm up to ya eventually. ^^
Skooma isn't the only drug in tamriel, you have the step before that, which is moon sugar (crack rock), sujamma, hist tree sap, and then your regular human ilicit drugs are also technically elder scrolls cannon.
Yep - exactly why I spent a solid chunk of the first half of the video talking about moon sugar and its historical, religious and cultural significances in the lore! The thumbnail text is a little facetious and more about the fact that they use Skooma as a stand-in in most quests where a drug would come up, regardless of whether it’s represented as an upper or downer (hist sap just doesn’t come up as much and you generally don’t see people treating it like they do Skooma, lore justification probably being that it’s harder to get for anyone but argonians and perhaps not as addicting). Recently also did a deep dive video on Sujamma, it’s a vaguely described alcohol with a number of different interpretations (that was a fun Dunmeri rabbit hole to dive down!)
I appreciate the production value man. It felt like I was really there in Skyrim doing crack.
I'll consider it a job well done then 😂
This one has high alchemy, speechcraft, and video editing skills.
This is the best documentary of Skooma I didn’t know I needed 😂
Everyone needs an unhinged documentary on fictional drugs from time to time 😂 Enjoy!
Nic Tracy: *Enjoys RedWater Skooma*
Dawnguard: VAMPIRE!
*dracula voice* no snitches... 🧛♂
My buddy ended up with a prosthetic hand from making skooma in the woods
All in the name of science... 🧪
There are tons of drugs in TES, they're just called potions when they're legal.
Now THIS is a big brain take 🧠👍🏼
The amount of sass reading the Jim and tonic description is more palpable than skooma
"sKoOmA iS a MyStiCaL dRiNk..."
dude this video is criminally underrated
Thank you 🙏 a lot of work, but totally worth it - just watched your Sweet Roll video! Let me know if you ever want to collab like I did with Talviel’s Kitchen on the Sujamma one, I’ve got a few projects in the works that I think would be a good fit!
I would say the closest real-world skooma would be something like opium. It's smoked and drank (as laudanum), is extremely addictive, has a strong mellowing effect, is derived from a natural source, and has been the root of severe inter-cultural problems.
Also given that the TES world is roughly similar to the middle ages/renaissance, and opium is the world's oldest drug, it fits more as a fantasy analogue than just weird liquor or weed.
I like this assessment! Skooma's a tricky one with the simultaneous upper/downer representations, but those are some solid connections with poppy/moon sugar and their respective more potent processed forms.
In terms of real-world recipes we can safely make/ingest, I'd say my final recipe got just about as close as legally possible...
I think we all know that the reeeeeaaaalllll recipe requires copious amounts of the now illegal original blend of FOURLOKO, alas this should suffice.
Four Loko: Skooma Edition. Meet the gods!
…which ones? You’ll see!
This video was awesome!!! The quality is outstanding!
may your roads lead to warm sands for this video
This was brilliant
I have the cookbook, but hadn't gotten around to making this yet, but I'm glad to have learned way more from this than I should have about Skooma.
I'm nothing if not excessively thorough in delving down obscure lore rabbit holes
under 2k subscribers is crazy for a page like this
Thanks 🙌 I was around 600 at the beginning of April, so I'm just excited more people are finding the videos!
I love what you're doing with this channel, and I don't even drink. Looking forward to more!
Welcome to the channel! I try to make things interesting regardless of consumption with the lore explorations and the overall presentation, so I'm glad you're enjoying!
Consider me, a new subscriber and fan! I’m going to have to watch your other videos!
Welcome to the channel and enjoy! 🍻
Great video!
You put a lot of effort into this video, it was great!
Thank you! The trip at the end took an embarassingly long time to edit...
Absolutely love this video, along with everything else you're doing!
I actually just bought the stuff to make water off life, but I'll use honeyshine instead of standard vodka. Can't wait!
Oooh, now that sounds good - I'm incorporating the Water of Life into a video on another subject soon!
You, fine sir, are going places.
I sure hope so 😂 thanks!
Well done, Nic. I now want to go down Elder Scrolls lore rabbitholes while properly skooma zooted 🤣
Genuinely fantastic video. I don't know how you keep stepping it up with the last few! All the editing and lore knowledge adds such heart and polish to the finished video.
Thanks Alina! Think I gotta space out the more lore-heavy videos if I want to maintain a good release schedule though... it's been pretty nonstop these past couple months 😂💀
these editing skills are amazing!!
love this !
Smoke Skooma Everyday.
Thanks for the shoutout
Of course - thanks for the mod assistance!
First of all I love your channel. I recently (about a year ago) got into home brew due to wanting to make Skyrim mead and you did just that. In addition, your production efforts are phenomenal. Stellar job.
Second, what is the ratio of your Skyrim cookbook to knock off absinth ratio? I would love to recreate this and try it. Thanks a ton 🤩
Appreciate it! It's been an evolving process and I've enjoyed honing the craft over the years to the point where the videos are at now.
I would say that for the ratio, just a drop of the absinthe would suffice - it's a potent flavor! There are also "atomizers" which are really just tiny spray bottles for alcohol and I think one spritz of absinthe on the top would do the trick. It's also really good over ice!
I actually think skooma bottles are glass filled ones are a shade of purple and empty ones are a shade of green meaning the actual liquid has a colour
Now that's interesting! Think I may need to revisit it in the future and do some additional research...
I just found your channel and I love it ! I didn’t know I needed this much Skyrim 😂❤
Welcome! We got Skyrim for days around here 😂
Just be careful not to overindulge in skooma lest you end up like many elder scrolls npc
RIP to the ones we lost at Redwater Den 😪🪦🩸
So what does your Alfiq, Kyne, think of the final product? Bet she was dancing with the moons and the Skooma Cat eh? XD
Definitely! She's definitely more of a skooma-cat than her brother...
@@quenchquestdrinks Lemme guess, perma-silent treatment eh? Well worry not, cat’s are fickle and I’m sure her brother we’ll warm up to ya eventually. ^^
Skooma isn't the only drug in tamriel, you have the step before that, which is moon sugar (crack rock), sujamma, hist tree sap, and then your regular human ilicit drugs are also technically elder scrolls cannon.
Yep - exactly why I spent a solid chunk of the first half of the video talking about moon sugar and its historical, religious and cultural significances in the lore! The thumbnail text is a little facetious and more about the fact that they use Skooma as a stand-in in most quests where a drug would come up, regardless of whether it’s represented as an upper or downer (hist sap just doesn’t come up as much and you generally don’t see people treating it like they do Skooma, lore justification probably being that it’s harder to get for anyone but argonians and perhaps not as addicting). Recently also did a deep dive video on Sujamma, it’s a vaguely described alcohol with a number of different interpretations (that was a fun Dunmeri rabbit hole to dive down!)