Posts Tagged ‘Weird & wacky & wrong’

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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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?

The LCBO has banned the selling of Smashbomb Atomic IPA from the Flying Monkeys Craft Brewery, claiming the beer's name and label (which depicts a cartoon explosion) are violent and inappropriate.

My personal opinion, and mine alone: I don't like censorship. I do not support the notion that a small group should make moral or ethical decisions for the majority.

The LCBO is a business, agreed. But it is also a government-run provincial monopoly, so it cannot be held to the same owner-centric standards as that of a privately run business.

I tried getting an image of the label to plug into this post but couldn't get a hold of someone in time. But here is a photo of Smashbomb Atomic IPA packaging on the Flying Monkeys Facebook page. Check it out. I'll wait.

Does anyone believe a cartoon explosion on a beer bottle makes it unfit for sale at the LCBO? Honestly, I can barely make it out anyway.

For the sake of fairness, you can find a response from the LCBO regarding its decision to ban the selling of Smashbomb Atomic IPA on its website.

What I learned today:

1. The Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) has a social responsibility division.

2. The label "social responsibility division" is unfit for consumption.

What's your opinion? Is the LCBO right to ban Smashbomb Atomic IPA? Or have they made a censorship blunder?

If you're interested in mixology and spend a significant portion of your time online reading about all things drink-related, you've no doubt heard about this unfortunate concoction, named after the young, teenaged pop phenom.

For the record, I have nothing against Justin Bieber, I wish him well. It's not my fault I can't sing and be rich. But naming a drink after him? One that's a convertible mocktail no less? (You can add some vodka to it for the of-age crowd.)

I don't know. It just doesn't seem right.

In protest, I'm not going to post the recipe. If you want to take a look at the Biebertini recipe, please visit the Cocktail Deeva at Everything Mom. Be warned though, the Deeva is pretty shaken up over the whole thing.