Here’s a way to numb the pain of not fulfilling your astronautical dreams and do you one better in the process: Drink this beer actually made from moon dust. You’ll get to gulp down real, honest-to-god, beer-soaked moon bits and become one with the moon in the most literal sense possible.
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Designing a robot that can mix and pour the perfect martini isn’t terribly difficult—once you get the portions and motions nailed down, it’s good to go. But designing a robot bartender that’s also able to discern who at a noisy crowded bar is looking for a drink—based on subtle gestures or posture—is a whole other level of complexity that researchers at Bielefeld University in Germany are trying to crack.
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You’re out on a date. You’re hoping to impress your companion and come off as a worldly gentleman or gentlewoman, but the bar menu is chock-full of alien ingredients. Your choice is simple: Get the one with fernet.
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You’ve mastered opening your guest’s beers with your bare hands, but what about when a dinner party calls for something a little more sophisticated? You can try you hand as an amateur mixologist, hoping you’ve got the proportions right for the perfect cocktail. Or wait for Brookstone’s new Perfect Drink system that guarantees precise pours.
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After a bartender incorrectly poured him a Half and Half, Louisville-based glassblower Matthew Cummings was inspired to make this custom creation. The handmade Dual Beer Glass features two side-by-side chambers that keeps ales separated until the drinker takes a sip. Think of it as the alcoholic equivalent of those Nerds candies, but not quite as cheap.
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This colorful tiny shirt that will impress a lot of cool tenth graders came for me in the mail today, and I had totally forgotten about it until now. Surprise! Am I alone here, or does anyone else order random things online and erase them from your memory until they arrive?
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Non-alcoholic beers take a lot of flack, and rightly so. The great majority of them taste like swampwater (and give you less of a buzz). But are any of them actually good? We tried 14 different non-alcoholic beers to find out. And the answer is a definitive yes.
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Are you tired of being told when and where you can and cannot drink? Taking advantage of the fact that everyone carries around reusable water bottles these days, the BottleCamo blends right in. But instead of filling it with water, you unscrew the bottle, stash a brewskie inside, and don’t let any silly laws prevent you from downing a cold one when you want to.
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Do you want a beer, or do you want a cocktail? The answer is yes. You want both. Right now. Simultaneously. In a single glass.
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As the name suggests, there are really only two components to a gin and tonic (unless you count the lime), which means only two ways to screw it up. It’s easy enough to avoid a bad gin. Bad tonic water, though, is the rule, not the exception. Look at a label and you’ll see cheap high-fructose corn syrup is the first ingredient in almost all of them. There’s a better way.
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