All the drinks have alchemical properties but I don't really envision most players wanting to actually drink these.  I created this more as a 'collectors mod' for those of use who want to outfit our homes / taverns with a wider selection.

If you use Tooltips Complete, Vintage Morrowind includes custom tooltips for most of the new drinks.  I reference The Lesser House Distillery, which I was going to build but realized I don't (yet) have the skills needed to pull that off. 

These are found in crates / containers (added via leveled lists) & to a few vendors.  Some of them are very, very rare.


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TEXTURES & MESHES USED:

Many of the textures come from Morrowind Enhanced Textures, Tamriel_Data, OAAB_Data, & the game itself.  Some of the textures I made entirely by hand using assets that I have been bouncing from hard-drive to hard-drive for nearly 30 years.   

The meshes are a mix of Tamriel_data, OAAB_Data, RR Better Meshes, & base-game.  

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THE FULL LIST OF BEVERAGES
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LICHEN BRANDY

I did a deep-dive into what can be used to make various types of alcohol.  In Iceland, they apparently make a brandy using lichen so I ran with it.   The 3 base-game lichens are covered along with 3 from Tamriel_Data / OAAB_Data

IRL:  Lichen brandy is made in Iceland.


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FLOWER LIQUEURS

While researching alcohol I learned flowers are often made into liqueurs (not liquors) or added to distilled alcohols like vodka.  They cannot be made, by themselves, into wines (for example) because wine & other fermented beverages require something with a high sugar content.  Flowers can be added for additional flavor later in the wine making process. 

IRL:  Heather Cream Liqueur is made in Scotland so in-game it's called the same (guars produce milk so that's my flimsy reasoning).  

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MORRETS (MUSHROOM WINE)

I love it when I find something in a game, or mod, that causes me to Google things like "can you make alcohol from mushrooms?"   In the real-world, I couldn't get much of an answer to any specific beverage name / type* BUT the 'worldbuilding' subreddit popped up as a top result on Google.  The OP had the same question & on commenter said (paraphrasing):  mushrooms can be made into a wine called morrets with is a dwarven technique.

I ran with that & the tooltip for these say the process for making the morret is an ancient, heavily guarded Dwemeri technique known only to The Lesser House Distillery (more on that below). 

* I did come across a mention of a tincture made with fly agaric & vodka, but the mushroom is poisonous & the tincture is tricky to make & has no value as an alcoholic drink & dubious value medicinally.


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ASHLANDER-MADE ALCOHOLS

From left-to-right:  Ashvavit, Pulque, Fire Fern Whiskey

• Ashvavit is a play on the real-world Askvavit or Aquavit which is distilled from potatoes or grain.  I used the name because I could twist it to fit the ash yams.
• Pulque is a real-world alcohol made from the fermented sap of the agave plant & dates back several millennia.  Since Hackle-lo is a succulent(ish?) plant, I ran with it.  I had zero creativity left for names by this point.
• Fire Fern whiskey is exactly what it sounds like.  Absolute zero creativity left by this point.
  

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(mostly) IMPORTED ALCOHOLS

The first is Dwemeri Demise, a whiskey made natively on Vvardenfel.  The other 3 are imports from Elsweyr & Black Marsh.  The names of the imports come from ESO.  The design of the Moon Sugar Rum is heavily inspired by ESO's version.  

From left-to-right:

• Dwemeri Demise (whiskey, not imported)
• Moon Sugar Rum, Elswyr
• Argonian Mud Nectar, Black Marsh
• Theilul, Black Marsh
  

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WHISKEY COLLECTION

These 7 drinks I consider whiskeys / hard alcohol.  These should be borderline rare finds.  All of them are bottled by the non-existent distillery I made up when I first envisioned this mod (more on that at the very bottom).  

From left-to-right:   Malacath's Hammer, Vaermina's Nightmare, Sanguine's Temptation, Wickwheat Whiskey, Spirits of Light & Magic, Khartag's Courage, Dagoth's Downfall.


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FINE WINES

The LFL mod include 'house wines' for the 3 joinable houses in Morrowind.  With permission from Danae, I expanded on that to include the other 2 houses.

In the game, pomegranates are mentioned as a rare fruit growing around Red Mountain.  These were added by by mods like OAAB Pomegranates & Momento Mori.  

IRL:  The Russians & one town in Japan make wine from cabbage. 

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PERMISSIONS:
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You can absolutely use the beverages in this mod in your Nexus mod. Permission not required as I'm granting it here.  Check the Permissions & Credits drop down at the top for more specifics.


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CREDITS

Many of the textures come from Morrowind Enhanced Textures, Tamriel_Data, OAAB_Data, Ket's Potions & Beverages Retextured, Intelligent Textures, Morrowind Enhanced Textures, Remiros' Volendrung HD, or made by me using assets I have on hand.

Meshes are a mix of of Tamriel_Data, OAAB_Data, and RR Mod Series - Better Meshes

Danae for her help, for Lore Friendly Libations (the inspiration for this mod), & permission to use the House Wine Idea.

The Morrowind Discord community & the r/TES3Mods subreddit.  I'm not exactly active but the info is pure gold.  The January modding event & it's classes were invaluable & helped to create this mod & many others.

If I have inadvertently used any asset without permission, please let me know and I will remove it with many apologies!
If I've forgotten to credit you, please let me know!


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SUPERFLUOUS BACKGROUND INFO:
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Back in 2015 I made a mod for Skyrim called Spirits of Skyrim (its still here on Nexus).  It was a reduced version of the full mod I was working on called Spirits of Nirn.  The immediate feedback was that many did not like my textures for the bottles.  It was really valid feedback but I couldn't figure out what was 'wrong' aside from a lack of skill (I'm still a shit texture artist btw).  It was a bit paralyzing so the mod was never finished. 

9 years later I returned to Morrowind & used a mod called Lore Friendly Libations (LFL) which adds 70+ beverages. I decided to retexture the bottles since they didn't quite fit with the graphic overhauls I used.  After retexturing nearly every drink, it finally hit me what I did wrong with Sprits...and was doing wrong again:  too many damn labels!  I had all the beverage bottles lined up in my bar but the LFL bottles still stuck out ---because most beverages do not have labels. Duh.

Vintage Morrowind definitely has bottles with labels but I limited those to the alcohol types where it made sense: wines & 3 of the beer options.

The alcohol making rabbit-hole....

Alcohol mods always start with researching alcohol.  I did this for Spirits of Nirn & now again for Morrowind.  Several drink names are historical or plays on historical names.  If I ever create The Lesser House Distillery, I may add a few more.

Future Plans...or not....

If you use Tooltips Complete, Vintage Morrowind includes custom tooltips which frequently mention The Lesser House Distillery.  It would have been a remotely located building that players could visit to not only buy some of the drinks but would have some of them locked until the player provided the ingredients.  I have zero confidence in my ability to create that at the moment but maybe I'll get over myself one day...


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My Other Mods:

Updates to the Art of Alchemy: Dusts - Powders - Mince Meats
Unique Potions for AOF's Potion Bottles
Updates to TealPanda's Alchemy Essentials
Elegant Hlaalu Updates for Project Atlas