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If you’ve ever spent time in an extraterrestrial prison hospital, you know that this is a pretty accurate description for some species. It’s made with peach schnapps, Bailey’s Irish Cream, blue curacao and grenadine syrup.
Link -via reddit | Photo: Martin Williams
If you drink enough of these, the physics will start to make sense. The Drunken Moogle, teacher of many geeky cocktail recipes, brings us the perfect Portal 2 drink. It was developed by James Dance. You’ll need blue curacao, vodka, lemonade, cointreau, rum and Orangina.
Link -via Technabob | Photo: James Dance
Make sure that your bartender knows what he’s doing, or else you’ll die. The hirezake is a mixture of warm rice wine and a fried fugu fish. That’s the same fish that is poisonous if not expertly prepared. So if your bartender looks a little sloshed, just ask for the Shirley Temple instead.
At the link, you can find many more strange, unusual, or possibly disgusting drinks from around the world. Among them is one that requires a severed human toe.
Link -via NotVentures | Photo: Flickr user Grilled Ahi
The folks over at ComicsAlliance have come up with a fun way to celebrate the coming of 2012-superhero inspired cocktails! So, if you’re looking for ways to spice up your New Years party, check out these delicious sounding recipes and decide who’s side you’re on.
Note: these cocktails will not give the drinker super powers, nor will they make you invulnerable in any way, so enjoy them in moderation and get home safely! Happy New Years Neatoramanauts!
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If a s’more cocktail isn’t, by itself, a sufficiently serious chocolate delivery system, then Spabettie has a recipe for you! She used a shot glass mold to make chocolate cups, filled them with chocolate-flavored vodka and then topped them off with rice whip.
Link -via Tasteologie
I don’t care what it tastes like. I just want to see this bartender in action! This video shows a man setting a Mexican coffee (a type of cocktail) on fire and then pouring the flaming liquid in and out of serving dishes.
-via reddit
I know I urged you all to support a switch to Bear Week yesterday, but that’s not to say I don’t enjoy Shark Week. I particularly enjoy festivities of any kind when they are paired with delicious themed drinks and snacks. If you feel the same way, then be sure to enjoy these great food and drink recipes on BuzzFeed.
Nothing hits the spot quite like a grilled cheese sandwich with a bowl of tomato soup. But it’s been hard to get sloshed on this combination…until now. Clive’s, a bar in Victoria, British Columbia, offers a cocktail called a “Cold Night In” that blends these flavors with alcohol. Here’s how bartender Shawn Sole makes one:
Soole starts with his own batch of “grilled cheese rum” — dark, viscous Mt. Gay “washed” overnight with a real-live grilled cheese sandwich, a seeping process to extract essential flavors and infuse them into the rum, before adding fresh-muddled tomato and basil, salt, Lillet Blanc and Glenfiddich Scotch whiskey. The effect is extraordinary: the grilled cheese rum leaps off the palate with flavors of cheddar, bread and butter, mingled with a dark sweetness, while the Lillet Blanc prevents the texture from veering into Bloody Mary territory. Topping the cocktail off with a drop of Glenfiddich adds a hint of off-the-grill smoke and evokes sipping, grilling and dunking.
Link via Althouse | Photo: Shawn Soole
Instructables user spookylean turned an Altoids mint box into a portable martini kit. This way, he’s prepared for a martini emergency. He writes:
All you will need to be prepared in any emergency is an Altoids or equivalent tin, some tiny bottles (the smallest one is from a miniature Tabasco sauce bottle), a tiny ziploc bag, a folding paper cup (about the easiest origami there is), and the stopper cannibalized from a dollar store water pistol. Oh, and of course gin (I favour Plymouth) and vermouth (Noilly Prat).
Link via Weer’d World
Some mixed drinks are designed to taste bad, others are given gross names. Why? That’s just what happens when people try to be funny in their mixology experiments. The result is something that you might not want to try unless you’ve already had a few drinks. Warning: the linked post may be considered NSFW or NSFLunch. Link
If you’re throwing a geek party, you’ve got to have geeky refreshments, like these ten Star Trek-themed drinks, with recipes included.
With names like “Beam Me Up Scotchie” and “Phasers on Stun Punch”, there’s no possible way to go wrong if you mix these at your next “Trekker” party… unless the borgs decide to show up of course. Then having a “successful” party is probably the last thing you’ll care about.
I don’t know which tastes best, but I love the name “Vulcan Death Grip” for a cocktail! Link
“Layering” is a when a bartender mixes drinks (or components thereof) on top of each other in a container without mixing them. Here’s a video of one skilled bartender layering and pouring nine cocktails.
via Geekologie
Hey, don’t eat that tarantula just yet! Apparently, when mixed with rice wine, these spiders make a good cocktail:
The arachnophobe’s nightmare is made using rice wine, jack fruit and a tarantula – which many Cambodians believe can help your heart and work as an aphrodisiac.[...]
The trade for spiders as food has been in effect since the 1970′s in Cambodia – but only very recently have tourists been finding a way to see where the spiders are hunted in the nearby countryside.
Link via Glenn Reynolds | Photo: Tom Whitby/Getty
Here is a video of chef Ferran Adria preparing an alcoholic sorbet using liquid nitrogen. This is an experimental food preparation technique also used by American chef and Food Network star Richard Blais, who recommends it as a way of impressing a date:
“You don’t need to know any fancy techniques to make a dish with liquid nitrogen. This is the ultimate science-guy-who-wants-to-impress-someone-but-is-fudging-it recipe:
1. Buy your favorite ice cream at the store.
2. Let it melt (in its container) on the counter.
3. Pour the melted base into a stand mixer.
4. Let it whip, and while it’s doing that, slowly add in the nitrogen.
5. When is it ready? When it’s ready! Look for the same consistency as regular ice cream.“You can even use liquid nitrogen to clean up after the meal. Sprinkle some on the floor and it collects all of the particles. It’s easier than a vacuum.
“Will the goggles kill the mood? Not if your girl is into the sexy-nerd look. Hey, while you’re at it, throw on a lab coat with nothing underneath.
Apparently the key to creating “brain tissue” is to mix acidic lime juice with the vodka. Then when you add the Bailey’s Irish Cream via a straw, it curdles into cortical gyri. A splash of grenadine provides the blood. The ingredient list and instructions are at Folkinz. Via Found Here.
You will need a couple of these if you plan to eat any of Jill’s brain cake…
The Art of Manliness has a wonderful post on 5 classic cocktails that all men should be familiar with and how to mix them for maximum effect.
There’s been a trend lately to get back to the old way of doing things, especially when it comes to things we ingest. This trend has also entered the world of libations. Drink menus around the country are starting to have more of the old classics included on them. Many mixologists are using these cocktails as starting points for newer versions that take advantage of the plethora of products out there today. Recipe books from classic bars such as the Old Waldorf-Astoria, The Savoy, and the Stork Club are available in reprint editions for the new generation to use. And who can forget Old Mr. Boston? They’ve been printings those books since 1935 and still do to this day.
But you don’t need a recipe book to get started mixing up some of the classic cocktails men have been drinking for decades (and in some cases, more than a century). Here’s how to create the 5 classic cocktails every man should know.
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