MetaFilter posts tagged with booze

The first glass goes down like a post...

TheWhiteSkull — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:57:17 -0800

Russian food porn. Gorgeous photography of Russian snacks and the alcohol they accompany.

Ice Ice Baby

HumuloneRanger — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:02:45 -0800

It's no secret that classic cocktails are back. Fresh fruit and house-made bitters and infusions are de rigueur, but no less important is the quality of the ice. Good ice and the right shake ensure that spirits are properly chilled and diluted and improve the cocktail's flavor profile.

Hard Drinks for Hard Times

mrzarquon — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:37:40 -0800

Mixology Monday is blog dedicated to hosting a monthly cocktail party. Contestants are given a theme and week to submit their best creations. February's competition was Hard Drinks for Hard Times. If your 401(k) has taken a beating, or if you or a spouse or friend have been laid off, or if you’re simply hanging on to your wallet for dear life, you’ve probably given some thought to how the economy is affecting your basic expenditures—such as those you make for booze. Here’s a chance to share how you’re drinking during the downturn; whether it’s affordable booze, ways you’re cutting corners, or things you’ve figured out how to mix or make on the cheap, we need to hear it. Some notable creations: $1.76 Unwelcome House Guest $0.83 G&T $1.25 Old Fashioned A collection of four beer based cocktail recipes. And here is March's competition (which has yet to make it to the main page yet).

"You meet a better class of people in pubs"

fearfulsymmetry — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:10:59 -0800

Oliver Reed. Movie star or hellraiser? Actor or alcoholic? But it was probably not as simple as that... The Real Oliver Reed (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) (Poss. NSFW Brief nudity) Oliver Reed: The original hellraiser 15 Things You Genuinely Didn’t Know About Oliver Reed The infamous Aspel appearance , More on that and other chat show appearances Oliver Reed - Resurrecting Proximo (1, 2, 3) Uncut interview from 1992 (1, 2) Johnny Carson interview (1, 2, 3) At the Oliver! reunion (Poss. NSFW some swearing) Reed on The Word Spitting Image ... and finally the last pub. RIP

The Dude abides

Artw — Thu, 29 May 2008 23:50:56 -0800

How to make the worst White Russian ever. That's what you get for asking for cocktail at some super square looking business hotel adjacent to an exhibition center. Ok, ok, here's how to make a nice one. Ooh it looks like Jupiter. Try one hot. Teeny tiny Kahlua drinks. Do NOT cook pork in it. Oh, okay, go ahead. Make you own kahlua. It won't be as pretty as this. While we're adding coffee to booze why not add booze to coffee.

Drinking songs

cog_nate — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:30:46 -0800

Drinking Songs & Barroom-lore is an unbelievable collection of audio , textual and other materials related to "traditional drinking songs (many bawdy), toasts, recitations and other bar-room folklore." If that's not enough, check out ARRR!!!'s sea shanties and drinking songs and/or Barstool Mountain's Top 100 Drinking Songs. Still not enough? Well, OK. Collections of songs:
A select collection of English songs (Volume 2) (1783)
The stag's hornbook (1918)
A tankard of ale, an anthology of drinking songs (1919)
Wine of Endless Life: Taoist Drinking Songs from the Yuan Dynasty (Google Books preview)

Texts about drinking songs:
'Beve, beve con me': An Operatic Brindisi-For and to Gian-Paolo Biasin (PDF)
Carven from the laurel tree; essays (p. 29 - 35)

Audio:
Banter/Drinking songs (Javier Trejo, MP3)
Drink Friends Drink (Unkindness of Ravens, OGG or MP3)
California Drinking Song (Cal Band, MOV)
Drinking Song (Bob Schneider, FLAC)
La canción de bebiendo (José Suarez, MP3)
El borracho celebra la Semana Santa (José Suarez, MP3)
Steven Taylor class on [Greek drinking] songs, July, 1987 (Steven Taylor, big MP3)

Sheet Music:
Down, down in the cellar
Sons of temperance
I'm all broke up to day!
Down deep within the cellar - Im tiefen keller sitz'ich hier
Little more cider
Drinking song, brindisi, in the opera Macbeth
The land we live in
Here's how
Trim the lamp, a favorite ballad
Here's a health to thee Tom Moore
Johnny Darling!
Brandy and water, ballad
Here's a health to thee Tom Breese
Catawba waltz
Beviamo, cheour favori d'Ernani
Libiamo ne lieti calici = Gaily thro' this life
We won't go home till morning, a favorite glee
Way-side flowers
La brindisi, drinking song from Lucrezia Borgia, with brilliant variations
A Drinking song
Drinking song - Le punch scintille, Girofle girofla
Drinking song - Trinklied
Drinking song
Drinking song
Drinking song
Here's to you, my sparkling wine (PDF)
I drink from my heart to you (PDF)
If e'er I be Lord God of all; Comic drinking song
Rolling home in the morning
Drinking song (PDF, pages 3-4)
The song of the cider (The flagon) (Goixian on), Basque drinking song (Canción humoristica)
The toast, a drinking song
All the boy's love Mary (PDF)
Down where the Wurzburger flows (PDF)
Good old German beer (PDF)
Hello Mr. Stein (PDF)
How do you like your oysters (PDF)
Here's to the nut brown ale
Mum's the word (PDF)
On the banks of the Rhine with a stein (PDF)
Schooners that pass in the night (PDF)
Song to the foaming stein (PDF)
Under the Anheuser Bush (PDF)
Burton Ale: a song

Drinking 'till you burst.

fearfulsymmetry — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:12:33 -0800

You might have thought a six month hangover was bad enough but now in 'binge-drink Britain' there's a reported rise in 'exploding bladders'... safe for work but you might want to read it with your legs crossed. Or a least spend a penny first.

Cheap booze!

pompomtom — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:46:34 -0800

When happy hour's over, and it's time to cruise back to trash someone's loungeroom, continue the tight-arse tradition with Boozle!

Sniff Swig Puff

mr_crash_davis — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:44:57 -0800

Sniff, Swig, Puff and your cares are temporarily gone. [youtube]

Now that the shoe phone is obsolete...

kosem — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:56:21 -0800

"Let your house be a meetinghouse for the sages and sit amid the dust of their feet and drink in the whiskey that comes out of their flip -flops with thirst."

Boozing Broadway Style

mr_crash_davis — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:52:44 -0800

[Joe] Namath learned to drink as a youngster, back home in Beaver Falls. You could say he developed a taste for hooch as an infant— when he got fussy while teething his mother rubbed his gums with a rag soaked in grain alcohol. (via SpoFi, another story of a great athlete/drunkard)

Like juice boxes, for grownups.

pieoverdone — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 07:34:54 -0800

Pocketshot. For when you really need to slug some rum on a long bike ride.

He drinks a whiskey drink, he drinks a vodka drink...

beaucoupkevin — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:30:34 -0800

How Not To Get Drunk is a newish blog that takes a quasi-scientific approach to the fine art of imbibing without embarassment. Maybe Ben Affleck (YouTube) should take some lessons.

Black Vodka

ObscureReferenceMan — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 11:47:35 -0800

Black Vodka. Perfect for Halloween! (A separate search yielded direct links to mixing and drink tips.) The coloring is from the Indian/Burmese catechu, a wood extract, but it won't stain. After doing a little research, it seems UK company Blavod merged with US Extreme Beverages, maker of Red Bull. So... is it a novelty, or niche filler? Reviews seem pretty favorable. I'll be picking up a botle for my Halloween party.

Happy New Year!

CunningLinguist — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 10:56:49 -0800

"Champagne" in a can. An offer you can refuse?

bushieaboozinagain?

slogger — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 14:36:48 -0800

Is Bush back on the bottle? A few not-so-credible sources have been running this story, and people are starting to are starting to talk.

Although you may sneer at the National Enquirer, it actually has a track record for factual accuracy, which even the CJR acknowledges. Hey, enquiring minds want to know…

People who drink to excess also tend to be chronic smokers

Blake — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 10:35:59 -0800

Speaking Of weight loss and exercise... Those who like their booze also like their nicotine. People who drink to excess also tend to be chronic smokers, and a new report suggests the combination of the two might prove more toxic than either one alone. a small study found chronic smoking + alcohol dependence = increased severity of brain damage. The frontal lobes (short-term storage sites) turn out to be the most damaged. A separate study used rats to show that alcoholism and excessive food intake may share the same chemical pathways in the brain. Forbes has the HealthDayNews report that focuses mainly on the smokes, MSNBC looks more at the eats. They also have an interesting Addictions Sections. Could it be that some folks are just prone to addictions and everyone settles on something different?

Bukowski: Born Into This

matteo — Fri, 28 May 2004 12:02:59 -0800

"Whadyawant, motherf*ck?" These are the first words Charles Bukowski speaks in John Dullaghan's documentary about the poet and novelist, famous for his writing and infamous for his drinking and brawling and screwing. The audience member might respond, "To hear your story, Hank, that's what I want." The movie opens with friends (Sean Penn, Harry Dean Stanton, Bono) and colleagues and lovers and fans recounting the myth; theirs are stories of blades pulled on the maitre d' of the swanky Polo Lounge in Beverly Hills, of dangling dicks revealed in public, of a drunk who'd just as soon crack his bottle over your head than share its contents. (more inside)

It canna be!

languagehat — Tue, 25 Nov 2003 14:13:29 -0800

Scotland shamed: Japan wins whisky challenge. The Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre hosted a tasting in Toronto, and a 20-year-old Nikka Yoichi, distilled in Hokkaido, beat out a 16-year-old Lagavulin (my own favorite) and 12-year-old whiskies from Cragganmore and Balvenie (also excellent). This is reminiscent of the 1976 tasting in which California wines beat out French ones and put California on the map; can America someday produce a world-class scotch-type whisky (the preferred spelling in Scotland), or shall we simply continue to take pride in our bourbon and rye?

The Benefits Of Booze

MiguelCardoso — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 18:07:10 -0800

Poor, Much-Maligned Alcohol Gets A Good Word: It's quarter to three, there's no one in the place/Except you and me,/So set 'em' up Joe, I got a little story/ I think you should know... And the story is something, if you're a drinker, you probably already know. (I was so surprised by this article I wondered if it was sponsored by the booze industry. But then I mixed myself another drink; read the wonderfully-named, probably Guinness - and poteen-fuelled - Dublin Principles and drank its health anyway!)

Man Drinks And Woman Drinks

MiguelCardoso — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 08:10:16 -0800

The Last Bastion Of Serious Sexual Discrimination: Booze! Do men and women really have different tastes when it comes to drinking? What does it all mean? Do girls really like girly cocktails? Do men hate sweet, fruity drinks? Are rye and malt whiskeys, cognac, red wine and beer resolutely masculine? Are gin, cocktails, liqueurs, white wine and champagne eternally feminine? Is vodka neutral? Is a gin and tonic always truly gay? Is tequila bisexual? Too neat? Perhaps. I wonder whether guy booze, girl booze and gay booze can ever be satisfactorily mapped out...

The Old-Fashioned Cocktail

MiguelCardoso — Wed, 21 May 2003 15:09:44 -0800

You've Come A Long Way, Baby: Unfortunately, you picked the wrong one, dear old Old-Fashioned, dean of cocktails. Robert Hess's definitive essay on the ever-changing ways of making one shows just how contentious a cocktail recipe can be. It also bears sad testimony to how the great classics are being fruited up, iced up, fizzed up, shaken till obliteration and generally girlied, dumbed and boozed down. So how do you stand on the cherry, the pineapple and the orange? And don't even bother commenting if you're a seltzer fan! ;)

mathowie — Tue, 22 Oct 2002 12:52:59 -0800

Finally, a holiday we can all get behind. Saturday, November 2 is the American Homebrewers Association’s 4th Annual Teach a Friend to Homebrew Day. Find a location near you to help you create the nectar of the gods. "To alcohol! The cause of – and solution to – all of life’s problems."

laz-e-boy — Mon, 10 Jun 2002 00:17:13 -0800

Nineteen die after drinking cologne in Saudi Arabia. Apparently this is seen as a alcohol substitute. Geez, if you want it that bad, there's plenty of booze in Bahrain, just next door...

mathowie — Sat, 13 Nov 1999 23:20:23 -0800

I don't know why I find this so funny, but I do. It's the Star Wars liquor store.