Need some good refreshments to serve your guests at a Ghostbusters-themed birthday party, or movie night? We’re going to go over the various beverages that appear in various Ghostbusters movies and animated series. I’m going to keep adding to this list as I watch through everything again and again.
Hi-C Ecto-Cooler
Ecto-Cooler gets its’ own category here because it isn’t technically from any Ghostbusters media, and was more of a tie-in product to The Real Ghostbusters. Because Ecto-Cooler is not currently being produced (something we just don’t understand), we’re going to provide links to recipes as well as simple ways to make your own Ecto-Cooler at home. These recipes were all acquired from following the trail through GhostbustersNews, which also has its own recipe here.
Chicago Ghostbusters Ecto-Cooler Recipe – Video
I’ve made this one before, and wow… if you’re looking for the flavor of Ecto-Cooler, this is pretty much it. If I am not mistaken, the fellow who put this recipe together worked for a food company and knew how to calculate the percentages of each ingredient from the list on the Ecto-Cooler box. I’ve always known that the order of ingredients is important, listing them with the largest amount of an ingredient needed, all the way down to the lowest. I didn’t know that there was a science to figuring out the percentages of each ingredient, though.
So, here’s what you need, according to the Chicago Ghostbusters.
This will make 1 Gallon (US)
- 1 Packet Kool-Aid/Flavor Aid Orange
- 1 Packet Kool-Aid/Flavor Aid Tangerine
- 3/4 Cup Orange Juice (No Pulp)
- 3/4 Cup Tangerine Juice/1 can mashed Mandarin Oranges
- 1/3 scoop Countrytime Lemonade (Reg or Pink)
- 1 1/2 Cups Sugar
- Green and blue food coloring for color.
Most of these items are easy to find. To find the Kool-Aid, visit Kraft’s Product Locator and search for both the orange and tangerine flavors.
For the Tangerine Juice (If you don’t wanna mash the tangerines yourself) Check Natalie’s Orchid Island Juice Co‘s locator site to find the juice in your area: Where to Find Natalie’s Tangerine juice.
- In a 1 Gallon pitcher, start by putting in your orange juice and tangerine juice. If you happen to be using the Mandarin oranges as a juice source, be sure to strain the pulp out unless you so wish it.
- After your juices are in, put in the packets of Flavor Aid and the 1/3 scoop of Lemonade mix and mix up the concentrate. The Lemonade is used to make the mixture slightly more bitter to give it the zing the original Ecto-Cooler had. You may have to adjust to get it to your taste.
- Add water, put in your sugar, and stir until dissolved. Again, if you’re using Countrytime Lemonade, sugar is already added to the mixture so you might have to adjust for your personal taste by adding more sugar than the stated 1 1/2 cups.
- Add your food coloring. The red in the Flavor Aid is deep enough to skew the color of the green, but with enough drops, you can make it green. It won’t be that happy bright green we remember, but at least it’ll be green. You also want to add a few drops of the blue in the mix to get it a more even green.
- Chill in the refrigerator. Not necessary before taste testing though. Give it a taste. You know you want to.
Alberta Ghostbusters Ecto-Cooler Recipe – Video
- 2 1/2 cups Orange Juice
- 2 1/2 cups Tangerine Juice or Tangerine Orange
- 2 tablespoons Tang
- 1 tablespoon lemonade mix
- 1 1/2 cup sugar
- Water
- Neon blue food coloring
I don’t know how much this recipe is for, because the video doesn’t say. I’ll see if I can find out from them.
Juicy Juice Orange Tangerine Ecto-Cooler Recipe
This one is really simple.
- Acquire a bottle of Orange Tangerine flavored Juice Juice. Where to buy Juicy Juice.
- Add some green food coloring to the bottle. A few drops will do.
- Shake it up, and then serve!
Coca-Cola
The original Ghostbusters film has Coca-Cola in multiple scenes. A can here, a cup there. If you’re trying to be authentic to the original film, Coca-Cola Classic is the way to go.