Archive for the ‘Beer’ Category

The following are some of the more interesting links I've come across in the past week. Enjoy

What would you do if your beer can walked away? (Yeah, probably stop drinking altogether, right?) Well, someone has actually created a robot beer can.

Will the robot beer can please stand up? Seriously. Go ahead and stand up.

Robot beer cans. Check. Biomechanical cocktail-making dress? Yep, they've made that one, too. Check out the DareDroid 2.0.

Enjoy 12 fun facts about the history of the cocktail over at the Rum Mixology blog.

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For those of you who are already fans of McSweeney's, you know something good is coming. For the rest of you, prepare for a treat. If Nietzsche was a chain restaurant bartender...

I took part in my first ever Mixology Monday this month, which is sort of like an online cocktail party. This month's theme was floral cocktails. Here's the roundup post that includes all the participants contributions, including mine! Loads of fun!

The garnish in my Mixology Monday entry (Bourbon Bloom).

For those of you who imbibe with purpose, none of the following info will be new to you. However with the successful release of The Hangover 2, a little reminder can't hurt, so here it is: 6 hangover cures guys should know.

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To celebrate the Memorial Day long weekend, the folks at Bohemia beer, along with celebrity chef Rick Bayless, have come up with a trio of recipes featuring beer.

And no, I didn't get any salsa, guac mix or other products. Or beer. Not a drop of beer. More's the pity.

Tropical Bohemia Cocktail

Tropical Bohemia Cocktail

Makes 8 drinks.

Ingredients:
1/2 cup pure pomegranate juice
1/2 cup pureed fresh ripe or frozen mango chunks
1/4 cup pureed fresh ripe or frozen pineapple chunks
1/4 cup freshly squeezed lime juice
1/4 cup superfine sugar
3 to 4 bottles chilled Bohemia beer

1. Mix pomegranate juice, pineapple puree, mango puree, lime juice and sugar in a glass pitcher until sugar is dissolved. Refrigerate up to several hours.

2. Divide the juice mixture evenly between 8 large wine glasses. Top each glass with 4 to 6 ounces of beer and serve.

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Here are some cool links I've stumbled across in the last little while.

Two Australian entrepreneurs are working on a beer that people can drink in space. Seriously.

Beer in space? I'll drink to that.

Crazy or crazy good? I don't know yet, but Imbibe's Avocado Daiquiri is making my weekend Drinks to Try list. Doesn't seem right on the surface, but I admit I'm intrigued by the idea. And hell, God hates a coward.

Over at Cask Strength, Andrew gets his nationwide bartender re-education program underway. For this month, he'd like us all to help bartenders learn to make a proper Daiquiri. It's a noble cause. (But I'm still going to try the previously mentioned Avocado Daiquiri. At home, of course. In the dark. Alone. No witnesses.) More to Andrew's point though, I gave up trying to find a generic Daiquiri photo in the online database I use. It's all pics of frozen strawberry slushies and Margaritas. Ridiculous.

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I live in Ontario. For those of you unfamiliar with the province, it's in Canada. For those of you unfamiliar with Canada and it's people: we love our beer.

That said, the number of beer choices available to Canadians (including beers created abroad) are astronomical. And as much as I hate to be overly negative, I occasionally run in to a truly rancid beer.

Such was the case the other day when my neighbours introduced me to a light beer that I will not name here, an unfortunate concoction they clearly purchased because of the low, low price. Sadly, it was accompanied by low, low flavour. And yes, I'm being kind.

Instead of ranting uncontrollably about my experience, I thought I'd share a link to The Amazingly Bad Beer Experiment, where Luke McKinney, a self-appointed "alcoholologist" tries to drink the cheapest, most terrible-tasting beers he can find, determining which are the worst ones, so we don't have to.

It's cruel. It's mean. It's funny.

What's the worst beer you've ever had?