Mixing alcohol and coffee is a time-honored tradition, but isn’t it time we take the next step? What if our booze could actually be coffee, and our coffee actually booze? Scientists have been hard at work on exactly that problem, and their new concoction is a 80 proof, hard liquor literally made from coffee grounds.
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It’s known by many names. White whiskey, new make, white lightning, unaged whiskey, "straight from the still." Some even call it moonshine. To us, it’s white dog, a unique spirit with a lot of diversity and character. It’s time we got to know it and talked about what you can do with it.
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The (figurative) craft beer explosion has provided no end of delights, be it cornucopian variety or xxxtreme hops or increasingly creative labels. But its greatest gift of all might turn out to be this ingenious Tumblr that GIFs all of the things.
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You’re going to have some friends over for a cocktail housewarming party. No problem, you think to yourself, I’ll just pick up some glassware at Crate & Barrel. You get there, and panic sets in. It’s an absurd, transparent cornucopia of tumblers and flutes and who knows what else, in every conceivable shape and size. You weren’t prepared. Pay attention now, and you will be.
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Over the last decade many of the principals of molecular gastronomy have carried over to mixology, but generally speaking you have to take out a second mortgage if you want to try them. Here’s a kit that lets you be a cocktail chemist in the comfort of your home. No mortgage required.
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We are officially in the dog days of summer. Here in New York it’s brutally hot, and the air has the consistency of bath water. You need something refreshing. The Greenhound is that something.
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Jack Sparrow has his rum, Ron Burgundy has his scotch, and you probably have your own favorite liquor, too. But how much do you know about your beverage of choice from that magical shelf behind the bar?
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You drink martinis and manhattans and mint juleps and pina coladas and tom collins and hell, so much more. Have you ever stepped back and wonder how these cocktails were named? Mental Floss’ resident genius John Green shares the origin stories of 26 different cocktails so you can learn some. Warning: he’s really good at this rapid fire brain melting session
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When you said someone was “social” fifty years ago, they were probably friendly, outgoing people who would talk up a storm and go out of their way to get to know everyone in the room. When you describe someone as being “social” nowadays, you probably mean they have accounts on social media networks like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Foursquare.
This is one change brought about by technology that isn’t all good. Sure, it’s great that you can talk to people and connect with them through the Internet, but people often take it a bit too far, choosing to go on their online networks when they’re out and about, ignoring the people they’re actually with instead.
Brazil’s Salve Jorge Bar, for instance, wasn’t too pleased with this anti-social social phenomenon, so they had design firm Fischer & Friends create the “Offline Glass”, which was meant to “rescue people from the online world” and bring them “back to the bar tables.”
At first glance, the Offline Glass looks just like any other glass, except for the smartphone-shaped notch at the bottom. Turns out this little notch makes all the difference, because the glass is highly unstable because of it. The only way to make the glass stand up straight is if the patron inserts his or her smartphone into the notch, stabilizing the glass and forcing people to keep their hands off their phone sat the same time.
So the glass design is more of a novelty, because I doubt people would regularly put their phones at risk of spillage or breakage on a regular basis.
The Offline Glass kind of makes you think about how “social” we’ve all become, which was the main purpose of creating the glass in the first place.
[The Telegraph via TAXI via Food Beast]
Drunk driving is obviously super dumb, but it can sometimes be difficult to tell what kind of effect a beer has had on your body. Fortunately, Tokyoflash’s latest watch straps a breathalyzer to your wrist so you can keep a check on things.
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