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Balok’s Best of Both Worlds: Non-Traditional Tranya

As mentioned earlier, there’s been a bit of controversy about the contents of the prop tranya back in 1966—Clint Howard swears it was grapefruit juice while William Shatner insists that it was apricot juice. Since tranya was a symbol of diplomacy and interplanetary understanding, my version has an equal amount of both. Since it’s sort of tiki-ish, I wanted it to be rum-based—particularly rhum agricole. I also wanted to include something distilled from Iowa grain, as a nod to everyone’s favorite Iowan, a man by the name of James Tiberius Kirk. That’s where the Iowa unaged corn or rye whiskey (a.k.a. moonshine, but it’s legal) comes in.

•2 ounces white rhum agricole (Rhum Clément and Rhum Barbancourt are accessible options)

•1 ounce Iowa white dog/moonshine/unaged corn whiskey (Country Gal Moonshine from Iowa Distilling Co., Two Jay’s Iowa Corn Whiskey from Broadbent Distillery, River Baron Artisan Spirit from Mississippi River Distilling Co., and Iowa Legendary White Rye are some good examples; if you can’t find anything from Iowa, any unaged whiskey will do)

•2 ounces grapefruit juice

•2 ounces apricot juice

•2 dashes orange bitters

Pour all ingredients in a shaker full of ice. Stir well. Strain and serve up in a stemless Cosmo glass because it most closely resembles the glassware in which Balok served tranya to his guests. (If you don’t have this, a rocks glass is fine.) If you really want to go full Balok, scale it up and serve it out of a punch bowl.