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This is geared to my people out there. You know who you are. Those of you too good for cocktails that involve Red Bull and/or vodka. Those of you who would prefer a $30 bottle of whiskey for the house than $30 worth of bottom shelf Long Islands at the local dive bar. Those of you who don’t want to bury the flavor of a good liquor under sugar water.

This is for you. The Old Fashioned. Balanced. Complex. Classic. Perfect.

WHAT YOU NEED

1) Old fashioned glass (aka rocks glass). Should hold 8-10 ounces. Notice the repetition of GLASS. No plastic Solo cups, plz.
2) Sugar. Regular old table sugar. Nothing fancy. You could use simple syrup, although I would think less of you if you did.
3) Cocktail bitters. I use Angostura because it is what I have on hand.
4) An orange. You will only be using the peel/zest, so make sure the outside is in tact.
5) Ice. Cubed, not crushed, unless you want a slushee, which you don’t.
6) Bourbon whiskey. I am using Woodford Reserve. Rye is traditional, but bourbon is more readily available. Use something good, people. And make sure it is bourbon. If I see you do this with Jack Daniels, we are no longer friends.
7) Maraschino cherries. You will only need one. Stem optional. It is just a garnish.
Muddler. This is for muddling. If you don’t know what muddling is, go buy some Red Bull and Smirnoff.
9) Cocktail stirrer. For garnish and stirring purposes.
10) Vegetable peeler. A zester would work as well, but I don’t have one so I use a peeler.

STEP ONE

Add 2 teaspoons of sugar to your rocks glass. Then add 1-2 ounces of water and 3 good hard dashes of the bitters. Use your muddler to muddle them for a few minutes until some of the sugar is dissolved. Make sure there is some sugar left undissolved, though. It will come in handy.

STEP TWO

Use your vegetable peeler to take a round off of the orange peel, about 1 inch in diameter. Stick to the surface. Don’t take too much of the pith (white layer below the peel) which is bitter and of no help to you. Add it to the glass and use your muddler to muddle the peel in with the mixture. The peel will not only absorb the leftover sugar, but the sugar will pierce the peel and release the delicious and sensuous essential oils that you want mingling with your other ingredients.

STEP THREE

Add ice to the glass. You want to go almost to the top. Leave just enough room to add your garnish and be able to stir without spilling.

STEP FOUR

Top off this bitch with your whiskey. Don’t be prissy about it. Once again, just leave enough room for you to stir and negotiate obstacles without spilling.

STEP FIVE

Assemble your garnish. The typical garnish for an Old Fashioned is called a flag, and it consists of (for this drink) a strip of orange peel and a maraschino cherry. Use your peeler to take about a 2 inch strip of orange peel. Thread one end onto your cocktail stirrer, pop your cherry’s cherry and then thread the other side of the orange peel strip on. Voila. Flag.

STEP SIX

Add your garnish to the drink and give it a few good stirs. Mix it up well so the drink doesn’t finish sweeter than it starts. After stirring comes my personal favorite part - imbibing. Imbibing is the part where your tastebuds thank you for something new and exciting.

Enjoy.

The car plowed about halfway through the store but nobody was injured. Rice got out of the car, walked over to the cooler and pulled out a six-pack of Budweiser beer, said the store owner.

“I don’t know how she managed to walk,” [The store owner] said, adding a cashier declined the sale and instead called police.

This Buds for you Lynne Rice! Keep up the good work!

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The deal should be complete by August 1st.

“We are pleased to acquire the U.S. rights to Grolsch, which is a terrific brand steeped in nearly 400 years of heritage,” said Miller CEO Tom Long. “With Peroni, Pilsner Urquell and now Grolsch, we will offer some of the best European beers to our customers and consumers.”

A-B and Miller are working to finalize and close the deal by August 1. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

Read more over at Brew Blog [Miller Gets U.S. Rights to Grolsch ]

Congratulations unknown Australian man! You are The Drunkist MVP!

DARWIN, Australia (AP) — An Australian driver who secured a carton of beer in his car with a seat belt but left a 5-year-old child unrestrained was fined 750 Australian dollars ($710; €460), police said Tuesday.

Constable Wayne Burnett said he was “shocked and appalled” when he pulled over the unregistered car on Friday in the central Australian town of Alice Springs.

The 30-can carton was strapped in between the two adults sitting in the back seat of the car. The child was also in back, on the vehicle’s floor.

“The child was sitting in the lump in the center, unrestrained,” Burnett told reporters Tuesday.

“I haven’t ever seen something like this before,” he said. “This is the first time that the beer has taken priority over a child.”

The driver was fined for driving an unregistered and uninsured vehicle, and for failing to ensure a child was wearing a seat belt.

Alice Springs Police Superintendent Sean Parnell expressed shock at the incident in a statement released Tuesday.

“This serves as a timely reminder to all drivers to ensure they wear seat belts and ensure as is their responsibility that all passengers in their vehicle are secured in the appropriate manner,” he said.

Via CNN

This first one is Canada at its finest: Beer, Bears and Hockey

Next up: A bear bartender? HOW CRAZY!

And finally, my favorite beer commercial ever. How can you go wrong with beer, a bear, and Japanese karaoke? Answer: You cant.

Also, I once got kicked out of a club in Canada for quoting this commercial. CANADA! BRUE! CROSE ENOUGH!
They said I was too drunk.

Have a good Friday everyone. Drink some Labatt!

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Drink Up!

Shot Number 1: The Italian Job

• 1 oz. Amaretto
• 1/2 oz. Fresh Lemon Juice
• 1 Dash Campari
• Small amount of tonic water

Shake all of this up in a shaker and strain into a shot glass.

Shot Number 2: BMW

• 2/3 oz. Baileys
• 2/3 oz. Malibu
• 2/3 oz. Jack Daniel’s

This is a layered drink so layer the ingredients over a bar spoon when pouring.

Comedy Shot Number 3: Jägermeister

• Pour Jägermeister in a shot glass
• Drink.

Or you can just drink this straight out of the bottle. Because Jäger is delicious.

That’s all for now. Have good weekend everyone!

1. Beer strengthens cordial muscle.
There are lots of potassium, magnesium, phosphorus in beer and it is excellent prophylaxis of myocardial infarction (heart attack), hypertension and heart failure. And nonalcoholic beer and dark beer of some brands could decreases the possibility of blood coagulability and thus decreases the risk of clots formation.

2. Beer appeases and cheers up.

Hops bitterness renders drowse, and alkaloid isomorphine which is in hop by chemical characteristics is analogous to morphine.

3. Beer withdraws uric stones
Many sorts of beer withdraw uric stones. It happens like that: potassium intensifies natrium and chlorine segregation by kidneys, and urine formation deeply increases. Thus demineralization of organism happens and uric stones are being withdrawn.

4. Beer softens skin and enlarges breast.
In XVI century pharmaceutical chemists recommended women to wash themselves with beer in order to have soft skin. And Prussian Queen Louise who had flat breast was advised to drink beer and smear her breast with beer three times per day.

5. Beer strengthen bones
Beer is the main source of silicon. This mineral plays a large role in strength of bone and muscle system.

6. In 100 grams of beer are only 37 Kcal
To compare in 100 gram of kefir / 59 Kcal. That means that drinking beer after work is not so harmful for the figure. And so called “beer bellies” form not from beer but from sausages and beer.

7. Beer is good for mental work
There are lots of group B and P vitamins in malt and hop, and they improve mental activity.

8. Beer hastens hair growth
And vitamins B and P affect hair growth. It is recommended to make nourishing masks from beer for hair once a week. And if you wet your clean hair with beer and then use hair rollers – after that you will get tight and bright ringlets.

9. Beer is good while having cold
Beer has bactericidal behaviour, if you drink warm beer while having cold or flu, it is possible to recover faster. In Medieval times during plague and cholera epidemic brewery workers rarely were ill. And while having toothache before teeth were rinsed with beer.

10. Beer is good for male potency
Zinc which is in beer is good for male potency and it prevents prostate inflammation.

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New technology means that less glass is needed to create a bottle of suitable strength. A bottle created using the latest technology uses over 30% less glass than a traditionally created bottle. While that doesn’t translate to huge amounts of glass for each individual bottle, the cumulative effect is huge.

Check out the whole story at Environmental Graffiti [Saving the Planet One Drink at a Time].

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