MetaFilter posts tagged with drinks

Like everything else, cocktail menus have grown decadent...

The Whelk — Fri, 24 May 2013 11:13:14 -0800

Make way for the $21 Long Island Ice Tea: The trshy summer cocktail goes upscale (The Awl)

Like a beer? Find its family members.

shivohum — Wed, 15 May 2013 20:51:36 -0800

Put in your preferred beer style, and Beer Viz will tell you about similar beers using data collected from Beer Advocate.

I could really go for a blue blazer right about now

special-k — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:54:16 -0800

How to Mix [Old Timey] Drinks with David Wondrich (slyt)

Beer based puns are drunk puns, and drunk puns aren't good ones.

Grandysaur — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:45:14 -0800

There are cooler ways to keep your beer cold than your average promotional koozie. There's the Beeracuda, a "liquid lunch box", the Shakoolie for all your shower beer needs, Growler Koozies and the Doozy, the 40oz koozie that comes with a pocket for your lighter. There's also the classic brown paper bag print for your 40oz, to keep things classic. Other Beeracuda prints include a quiver of arrows, bullets and the "Tubesteak".

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Martini* (*and we're glad you asked)

gauche — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 06:11:54 -0800

Q: OK, I'm ready for the long answer now. A: A highly vocal minority of Martini drinkers, the Prescriptivists, insists that the short answer is in fact the only answer...

Warning: May become more difficult to read after use

quin — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:15:41 -0800

Constitutions of Classic Cocktails - A single image that charts the ingredients of many well loved drinks.

indecision + vulgarity + location-aware browsing = booze

grouse — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 01:08:49 -0800

Where the fuck should I go for drinks? Previously.

The durable Mike Malloy

reenum — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:46:27 -0800

In 1933, Anthony Marino, Joe Murphy, Frank Pasqua and Dan Kriesberg decided to make money by taking out life insurance on drunks and then letting the victims drink themselves to death. Then they encountered Mike Malloy...

You probably know what Snoop Dogg gets you

Diagonalize — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:22:24 -0800

What should you drink? Take your cues from the tunes. That's the premise behind Drinkify, a scrappy little webapp that recommends drinks based on what you're listening to. Their motto? "Never listen to music alone again." Drinkify was created in 24 hours as a collaborative project at Music Hack Day Boston 2011 (previously mentioned here), an event I am mostly ignorant of being neither a musician nor a hacker, but it sounds fascinating.

This is why you're fat.

zardoz — Tue, 18 May 2010 06:14:38 -0800

The Most Harmful Drinks in America. Warning: simply reading this article may cause weight gain.

Open Source Cocktails

AceRock — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:00:14 -0800

The Violet Hour, a speakeasy styled lounge in Chicago with no sign, has been pushing the envelope in creative drink mixing since it opened in 2005. Toby Maloney, the Violet Hour's "Head Intoxocologist", had no problem posting on a Chicago food forum and sharing some of the drink recipes that have made his bar one of the most exciting in the country.

This one recently won third place in GQ's 20 best cocktails: Juliet & Romeo * 2 oz Beefeater * .75 oz Fresh Lime Juice * .75 oz Simple Syrup * 3 drops Rose Water * 3 drops Angostura * 3 slices Cucumber * 3 sprigs Mint * Tiny pinch of salt Glass: Coupe Garnish: Mint leaf and 1 drop rose water/3 drops of Angostura Bitters. Ice: None Muddle cucumber, mint and pinch of salt. Add rest of ingredients. Let sit for 30 seconds (time allowing). Shake. Strain. Garnish with 1 floating mint leaf and 1 drop rose water on top of leaf, and 3 more drops of angostura on the surface of the drink. You can buy rose water at Sultans Market on North Ave. I would get an eye dropper at the container store as well as a couple of extra drops will make this drink way to much like the jewerly box of a very old southern belle. The pinch of salt is really, really small. It should be muddled with the cuke to bring out it's freshness.

Gotta get up, gotta get up, gotta get up

deusdiabolus — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:50:57 -0800

All hail the energy drink! Potentially dating back as far as early 1900s Scotland, the energy drink has evolved from a nasty-tasting "health tonic" into a brightly-colored and supercharged fuel for body and/or mind. The phenomena gained speed with the advent of "classics" such as Jolt Cola and later Red Bull - and many current formulas do not stray from the high caffeine and B-vitamin formula. (And, of course, there is the other appeal of the energy drink...) However, newer energy drinks are taking a more health-conscious and organic approach, such as the all natural Guru Energy and Brain Toniq (neither of which contain sugar, fructose or artificial sweeteners). I am personally hoping for a Piracetam-based drink...

Liquor. For free. (or cheap.)

shakespeherian — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:20:04 -0800

myopenbar.com (Chicago link) is a dandy little site that lets you know where to score free and/or cheap eats and/or drinks on any given night in your area (assuming 'your area' = NYC, SF, LA, Honolulu, Miami, or the aforementioned Chi-town). The places are rated, and visited personally by the website's bloggers, but who cares? It's free booze. The site's been given as the answer in a few AskMes, but I figured an FPP couldn't hurt.

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.

Lemon Ades You?

interrobang — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:56:49 -0800

Soviet Lemonade Labels

The hard shake, on the balls, and edible cocktails

madamjujujive — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:27:38 -0800

"In the U.S., they're mixing drinks with herbs and other weird ingredients, but in Ginza the best guys just polish their cocktails like jewels." And perhaps no Japanese mixology master has contributed more than Kauzo Ueda, who has perfected the art of the hard shake, a refinement over more traditional shake styles. He has a disciple in NYC's Eben Freeman, who now imparts the secrets of the hard shake via a video tutorial. * A review of the solid drinks pictured in the "weird ingredients" link. * The cocktails you eat * Cocktails enter the ice age * In Japan, giant ice balls are often hand carved (as in the videos in "polish" and "jewels") but if you don't want to carve your own, there is an easier way to make your own giant ice balls. * For some great cocktail recipes and a sidebar of kickass links to cocktail blogs and sites, you can't do better than Looka! The Gumbo Pages by Mefi's own, Chuq.

20 free drinks

AceRock — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 08:30:24 -0800

20 bar tricks for getting free drinks

Bloomin' tea!

Ogre Lawless — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:50:14 -0800

[PepsiBlue] Tired of your tea -- you know -- just lying there? Maybe you'd be interested in blooming tea...

Iced Out Water

SansPoint — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 22:41:36 -0800

Bling h2o is the invention of Hollywood producer Kevin G. Boyd. It;s water in a frosted glass bottle with a cork and emblazoned with Swarovski crystals. At $24 a 750ml bottle, it's targeted at the super-luxury market. Is water from Tennessee really worth that much? Apparently, for some celebs, it is: "A lot of times when you have some water, people are like, 'You're drinking water?' Instead, you say, 'Naw man, I'm blinging." -- Jamie Foxx

Steven Foster thoughts

trinarian — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 03:50:51 -0800

Steven Foster is the perfect bartender. He wants to share his ontology, his reflections on what it means to be happy, bird aquariums, how to make margarita mix from scratch, solutions to the world's five most pressing problems [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or just read the summary on every page towards the bottom], and more drink recipes than you can shake a stick at. This man delivers.

Tips from behind the counter

tellurian — Tue, 23 May 2006 18:21:26 -0800

The view (with humour) from two people who serve you drinks. One a cocktail waitress in Vegas, the other a bartender in Cincinnati.

"Bimbo Punch" sound better than its name would indicate

kenko — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 18:00:05 -0800

Jerry Thomas' Bar-Tender's Guide or How to Mix Drinks.

The Grapes of Wrath

Gyan — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 21:12:17 -0800

European Wine Fighting For Survival

The things you can find...

twiggy — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 11:12:28 -0800

I know there's always been a dearth of particularly strangely named or just altogether strange means of taking in caffeine. Seriously, geeks will apparently buy caffeinated anything! However, I don't think I've seen anything quite as awesome as Steven Seagal's lightning bolt energy drink!

Ted Allen talks

braun_richard — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:17:19 -0800

Ted Allen interview! The food and wine expert on Queer Eye has a new cookbook out, and he talks to Slashfood about...well, everything: favorite foods, music, books, beer, birds, and other things.