Common Beverages

Winterjuice

Winterjuice is a beverage that is usually drank during the colder months. The drink is created by mixing dried mint leaves and mashed cold-resistant wild berries (often frostels or winterfruits). Winterjuice is commonly served in the northern provinces as the ingredients are easily found. Winterjuice is the official drink of several cities within Northport, Jeresia, and Aelisia.

Muskmint

Muskmint is a drink deriving from Winterjuice. Sailors found that the berries necessary to make the drink did not survive well on their voyages. The sweetness of the beverage also attracted bugs which caused many sailors to grow sick. The recipe for Winterjuice was tweaked and the berries were replaced with a sweeter variety of mint called sugar-mint. Nowadays, Muskmint is more similar to the teas of the South than to Winterjuice, with sugar-mint leaves being boiled in water with honey or spices being added as it sits.

Melonia

Popular in some Romasti provinces while illegal in others, Melonia is created by mashing and pulping the fruit of the Melodana plant. The legality of Melonia is often brought into question as the beverage is toxic to some extent. Melonia abusers often die of liver failure when the poisons in the fruits become too concentrated in the body. Melonia is still kept legal in several nations because of its importance in culture and the large sums of money that can be made selling the drink to travelers from places where it is banned.