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diego001 writes "In the spirit of the T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. Project, and taking a cue from The Simpsons, someone has apparently come up with a real-life Skittlebrau project - various alcoholic beverages with Skittles inside them. Take a look."
I've got brauspittle all over my keyboard!
Geez, I wonder how many people are going to get so drunk and choke on the new idea.. Slashdot is afterall read by plenty of college students!
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http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:y_kcJKU-rtsJ: www.crazyengineer.net/projects/skittle.php+&hl=en& ie=UTF-8
The server seems to have taken a dive in record time....
I wish the would have determined its resistivity to radio waves, If the twinkie resists radio waves as well as it does electricity. Then I could replace my tin foil hat.
1) Stop by your local asian food market and get several packages of salted dried plums. There are different types, so try to find one that is both sweet and sour.
2) Swing by the liquor store on the way back, it's probably near the asian food market. Pick up a bottle of tequila.
3) At home, take three shots of tequila from the new bottle of liquor.
4) Stuff as many pickled plums as possible into the tequila bottle.
5) Put in the freezer for at least 3 hours or until pickled plums imbue their color to the tequila. Tequila should also be ice cold.
6) Drink tequila in shots until bottle is empty.
7) If possible, use a chopstick to pull the tequila-soaked plums out of the bottle for a refreshing after-binge snack.
Repeat as necessary.
Finally, a practical use for science!
Pour me up a frosty, cold glass of technology, barkeep.
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It's not very often that I come along something that makes me thankful for not being able to drink. But Skittlebrau is one of them...
For the curious (or morbid) http://www.pkdcure.org/aboutPkd.htm is why I can't drink.
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"The sugar cuts the bitter beer taste and and leaves you with a mellow sweetness that isn't bad drinking.
While i wont dissagree with these findings, its been my personal expirence that sour skittles do a far better job of cutting that beer flavor...of course for those of us that acutally LIKE beer, this is completely unnecessary.
haha looks like there were too many skittles in their server!
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As with most crazy ideas, the Simpsons thought of it first:
Homer: "I'm feelin' low, Apu. You got any of that beer that has candy floating in it, you know, Skittlebrau?"
Apu: "Such a product does not exist, sir! You must have dreamed it."
Homer: "Oh. Well then just gimme a six-pack and a couple of bags of Skittles."
And so with that, the Skittlebrau project was born. My years of drinking training had led up to this moment, the first scientific Skittlebrau investigation. I realized that for such a daring experiment, I would have to do the drink tasting myself. Crazy you say? Crazy like a fox (yeah, I don't know what that is supposed to mean either).
I had selected a wide variety of brew to mix with the skittles, from wussy-man malt beverages to dark beer. The resulting drinks were judged not only on taste, but also on appearance post-skittle induction. They would also be tasted immediately, and then allowed to sit for a few minutes so the skittles could dissolve.
Skoors Light
Coors Light is a relatively decent light beer, definitely needed to be served cold. This was the first skittle brew we tried, and the initial results were somewhat disappointing. There wasn't much of a reaction between the skittles and the beer.
The first taste was undiscernable from un-adulterated Coors. However, within minutes, the color coating of the skittles had dissolved off, giving the beer a deeper color from its normal paleness. But as the beer drained down, the skittle taste really started to kick in, and thats not a good thing. Part of the problem is that Coors Light really doesn't taste much like anything, so the skittles quickly became the only taste in the beer. And that last swig is a real face twister.
The interesting thing is whats left at the bottom of the glass, little white pebbles (because the cold beer froze the skittles). Hard and crunchy, and they wipe that beer aftertaste away.
Bacardi Skilver
Bacardi Silver it turns out is actually one of the nastier malt beverages I have ever tasted. So, it couldn't be much worse with skittles. Dropping the skittles into the drink caused a mountain a fizz from the repulsive drink.
The taste is hard to describe. I think its an actual improvement over the normal taste. The strange thing is it almost tastes like margarita mix. The color matches up pretty well with whatever skittle you put in. So either do red/purple or the green/yellow/orange to get a nice glow (putting them all in just makes it look brown). Probably the worst part is the floating white pieces of skittle at the top of the drink
Skitrona
Citrona isn't actually half bad. The only downside to it is that it is fairly cloudy. But with some skittles, it becomes a cornucopia of color. Skittle induction reaction was minimal, and the color quickly spread throughout the drink.
Strangely enough, the skittles really didn't have any effect on the taste, so perhaps Citrona is made from skittles. A very unimpressive showing.
Old Skilwaukee
"Don't do it!!!"
"For science!!!" GLUG GLUG GLUG
"Dear God, what have I done. I have dabbled in things Man was not meant to."
Folks, this one is pretty bad. Not that Old Milwaukee is that great to begin with (I believe "ass" is the term most commonly used), but skittles just make it downright foul. The skittles dissolve very fast, so almost immediately you have a massive influx of sugar into the mixture. The early sips are bad, but it gets worse the longer you put off drinking it.
Chug it down, move on to the last one.
Skittlebrau
The one, the only, the original, Skittlebrau.
I personally am not a big dark beer fan. But the Crazy Engineer household would be remiss if w
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ingredients:
2oz. vodka
1 bunch wheatgrass
instructions:
place wheatgrass in a juicer to yield 6oz.
mix wheatgrass juice with 2oz. vodka
makes 1 8oz. serving
Now your gonna have a drunk thats gonna try to eat every rainbow in sight
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It would be interesting to try the beers out with just single colours (or controlled combinations) of skittles, and see how that varies the taste. I half suspect, though, that it would be difficult to determine the difference with your eyes closed (it's actually somtimes tricky to tell the difference between, say, lemon squash and orange soda. Even stranger is that if if you use food colouring to make lemonade green and lemon squash orange, then (with your eyes open!) many people think they taste like lime and orange respectively.) I wonder if this could be adapted to other drinks, and other lollies? You'd probably need a fizzy drink, but what about barley sugar or boiled lollies in beer? What about an orange Chuppa-chup, vodka and lemonade cocktail? Yum yum! Later! Bifurcati
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One of the clubs at my university beat this guy by a year. I remember them having a special Skittlebrau night about a year and a week ago.
http://anthony.is.dreaming.org/skittle-brau.htm
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As with most crazy ideas, the Simpsons thought of it first:
Homer: "I'm feelin' low, Apu. You got any of that beer that has candy floating in it, you know, Skittlebrau?"
Apu: "Such a product does not exist, sir! You must have dreamed it."
Homer: "Oh. Well then just gimme a six-pack and a couple of bags of Skittles."
And so with that, the Skittlebrau project was born. My years of drinking training had led up to this moment, the first scientific Skittlebrau investigation. I realized that for such a daring experiment, I would have to do the drink tasting myself. Crazy you say? Crazy like a fox (yeah, I don't know what that is supposed to mean either).
I had selected a wide variety of brew to mix with the skittles, from wussy-man malt beverages to dark beer. The resulting drinks were judged not only on taste, but also on appearance post-skittle induction. They would also be tasted immediately, and then allowed to sit for a few minutes so the skittles could dissolve.
Skoors Light
Coors Light is a relatively decent light beer, definitely needed to be served cold. This was the first skittle brew we tried, and the initial results were somewhat disappointing. There wasn't much of a reaction between the skittles and the beer.
The first taste was undiscernable from un-adulterated Coors. However, within minutes, the color coating of the skittles had dissolved off, giving the beer a deeper color from its normal paleness. But as the beer drained down, the skittle taste really started to kick in, and thats not a good thing. Part of the problem is that Coors Light really doesn't taste much like anything, so the skittles quickly became the only taste in the beer. And that last swig is a real face twister.
The interesting thing is whats left at the bottom of the glass, little white pebbles (because the cold beer froze the skittles). Hard and crunchy, and they wipe that beer aftertaste away.
Bacardi Skilver
Bacardi Silver it turns out is actually one of the nastier malt beverages I have ever tasted. So, it couldn't be much worse with skittles. Dropping the skittles into the drink caused a mountain a fizz from the repulsive drink.
The taste is hard to describe. I think its an actual improvement over the normal taste. The strange thing is it almost tastes like margarita mix. The color matches up pretty well with whatever skittle you put in. So either do red/purple or the green/yellow/orange to get a nice glow (putting them all in just makes it look brown). Probably the worst part is the floating white pieces of skittle at the top of the drink
Skitrona
Citrona isn't actually half bad. The only downside to it is that it is fairly cloudy. But with some skittles, it becomes a cornucopia of color. Skittle induction reaction was minimal, and the color quickly spread throughout the drink.
Strangely enough, the skittles really didn't have any effect on the taste, so perhaps Citrona is made from skittles. A very unimpressive showing.
Old Skilwaukee
"Don't do it!!!"
"For science!!!" GLUG GLUG GLUG
"Dear God, what have I done. I have dabbled in things Man was not meant to."
Folks, this one is pretty bad. Not that Old Milwaukee is that great to begin with (I believe "ass" is the term most commonly used), but skittles just make it downright foul. The skittles dissolve very fast, so almost immediately you have a massive influx of sugar into the mixture. The early sips are bad, but it gets worse the longer you put off drinking it.
Chug it down, move on to the last one.
Skittlebrau
The one, the only, the original, Skittlebrau.
I personally am not a big dark beer fan. But the Crazy Engineer household would be remiss if we
What's next? Nuts & Gum? (Together at last!)
:P)
Maple syrup soda perhaps? (I actually had this idea years before The Simpsons did it, so they stole it from me.
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I never even considered that Skittlebrau was actually anything... real? That is, until I read CS Forester's "Horatio Hornblower" series. Nauticle pulp fiction of the worst (best) sort.
Anyway, in one scene Horatio mentions that "life is not always beer and skittles." Now, these are old books, so the reference is, well, old.
Does anyone know the actual, non-Horatio reference?
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I'm underaged, so I used the next best thing. Best way to describe it: A gut bomb of sugar.
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Use Everclear and Skittles. Course be very carefull since everclear is Grain alchol.
Method:
Put gummi bears in alcohol (vodka apparently works best).
Over a few hours, they will soak up the alcohol and grow about twice their size.
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wow american beer that must have tasted amazing then. not at all like piss.
I hope its the Flaming Homer
First I can't have jello shots and now that Skittlebrau exists I can't have that too. Damn vegetarianism.
In the absence of any real news Slashdot now considers the Pledge of Allegiance and Skittles to be nerdsworthy tech news (while rejecting legitimate stories as usual).
But not with beer. It actually goes really well with
Smirnoff Ice. Does that color fizzy thing. You also get the white pebbles. They aren't crunchy though. Just really, really non-chewy. Hard. Me and my buddies used to get a six-pack (or a case, in some cases) and a bag of skittles, then pick our color.
And in other news... on this day in 1974, man with chocolate bar runs into man with bottle of peanut butter. A new taste sensation is born.
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How many people here have drank Sprite Remix? It IS liquid skittles.
I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
This seems somewhat like a dupe. This topic was discussed indepthly on the made up drinks poll.
With pictures of a variety of skittlebrau drinks.
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Actually, this might not be too bad if you tried mixing some Gin, ginger-ale, and skittles or perhaps something not too sweet. Currently, I find Gin and Ginger ale somewhat unpleasant tasting. However if you add a little fruit syrop (natural is best, go for blackberry) to flavour it, you suddenly have a very nice drink.
:-)
Not sure if the same would apply to skittles, but they seem similar in principle. Perhaps less syrop to offset the additional skittle sweetness? I think I'll give that a go this weekend
One must inject the brau into the skittle! First one must remove a small amount of skittle or inflate the hard candy shell. 5 seconds in a microwave will make it pliable.
Then one must carefully inject 3 skittles witl alcohol untill failure is achieved.
Failure = leakage.
Heat a spoon or knife on the stove and inject skittles with less alcoholic vitriol. With a heat resistant glove, place the knife or spoon on the edge of the skittle where you removed the needle, thereby sealing the skittle.
Repeat 10 times per guest. You can't eat just one.
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On the same vein, I've found that chewing Winterfresh gum while drinking Coors Lite or similar beers is actually very pleasant. The bitter of the beer and the sweetness of the gum go well together, and the gum covers the bitter after-beer taste.
But Skittles might be a little more accessible than Krusty's Non Narkotik Kough Syrup For Kids
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3192762.stm ...
reading this, I think this sort of thing is the basis on which terrorism grows
I'd rather alternate my cheap beers with skittles. drink. chew. drink more. Much more satisfying IMHO. Besides, how can you trust someone who thinks Coors Light is a decent light beer. That just makes me want to bang my head against the wall.
A way better treat is a Guinness float. Ice cream in your beer kicks ass, try it with you favorite stout.
Have fun,
chris
1) Swing by the liquor store on the way home from work. It's probably near work anyway.
2) Pick up a bottle of tequila and a bottle of Sweet & Sour.
3) At home, mix tequila with Sweet & Sour.
4) Drink tequila in shots until bottle is empty.
Steps 5-7 can be reserved for "???" and "Profit" wherever you like.
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I mean, really
a forty of old english. Try it. Nine out of ten punk rockers with cirrhosis of the liver swear by it.
A local brewer (Dominion Breweries) launched a range of fruit beers to attract women and young people to beer. At some of the launches at bars, they had cheap stuff, so a table of us bought a few bottles and tried it.
It tasted like someone had put chuppa chupp lollipops into a blender and added some vodka (couldn't taste the alcohol, but it sure wasn't beer tasting) to bring it up to 5%. I couldn't bring myself to abuse my tastebuds (there was other beer on offer) and liver with the stuff, so left it after a couple of mouthfuls.
beer is meant to have a bitterness to it. Deal with it, or drink something else.
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NO real beer has harmed by this experiment...
Eh, nothing new. I did this last year with a red cup of ice house and a handful of Skittles. They imparted a bit of flavor to the beer, which was not necessarily a bad thing. I can confirm that the skittles do turn to round white blobs in the beer. Unfortunately, (and perhaps obviously) it was not my first drink of the evening, and I forgot about it just as I was getting to the bottom of the glass. Something they failed to mention is that by morning, the skittles completely dissolve, leaving a gooey white layer on top of the flat, warm, beer. I can not comment on the flavor of the skittles at that point, since I had sobered up and was wondering what the hell I had been thinking.
I can't get to the article so Im guessing it has something to do with my favorite candy -- Skittles!
Am I the only one that will take one of every color and put it in my 20oz bottle of Dew?
Seriously, TRY THIS -- especially if you want to become diabetic!
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I usually pay about $8 for 1.5 liters of vodka, and about $7 per case of beer.
I'm on a budget yet I live like a king!
The sugar cuts the bitter beer taste and and leaves you with a mellow sweetness that isn't bad drinking. Now, letting it sit for 30 minutes isn't advised, but some leisurely drinking is ok. There is a slight odd aftertaste, but no odder than after sucking CmdrTaco's cock for several hours and eating shit out of CowboiKneel's asshole.
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Boy, does this guy have some learning to do when it comes to beer!
In reference to Lowenbrau he states... 'I personally am not a big dark beer fan'
If he think's Lowenbrau is a dark beer, god only knows what he would make of a decent bitter or a stout.
SkittleBrau
[5F03] Bart Star
ingredients:
2 pkg. Skittles
1 6pk. Duffenbrau
instructions:
add Skittles candies evenly to 6 12oz. cans of Duffenbrau
chill briefly
makes 6 servings
NOTE: You may want to use caution when preparing Skittlebrau. When Skittles are added to beer -- though I have not, of course, tried Duff -- it creates a scary sort of chemical reaction, causing the beer to foam uncontrollably.
Check out the other foods, including the recipe for skittlebrau here You have to scroll down a ways, or just search for skittlebrau on the page.
Must be a slow news day.
His lab is much less messed than mine, but I never had the idea to mix beer and skittles. Does it mean that I'm not enough crazy or not enough engineer?
skittles + beer tastes like shit.
of course we already knew that because OTHERS HAVE TRIED AND HAVE FAILED IT!
The setup fits on a tabletop.
It's not like lawn bowling since you don't use a lawn.
IIRC, you use some small "pins" and a top (the type you spin).
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to google something up, misinterpret it badly, post about it and remove all doubt.
Looks like another major advance in the serious field of "What if I mix this with acohol?"
I'm sure everyone, at least those that enjoy a brew or two, has performed experiments of this nature.
My stomach churns just thinking of some of the concoctions tasted in the past, the most amazing would have to have been this mix that had a serious metalic grey tinge to it. Kinda like a bottle of mercury, but alcoholic. Toxicity levels are yet to be determined due to an inability to reproduce said drink.
Sticking a lump of chocolate in the bottom of a glass and testing the flavour of vaious spirits is an interesting experience as well. Even more so if youu leave the same piece of chocolate through the entire evening.
Cheers
Z
A friend of mine, quite experienced in the skittlebrau phenomenon held a Christmas party in February. In light of the proximity to Valentine's day, he, of course, had a bucket of cinnamon hearts hanging from his living room ceiling. His girlfriend dumped out a bunch of cinnamon hearts at some point in the evening, and distributed them to those present. I added five or six to my bottle of beer. It was a rather interesting and pleasant experience. The rather boring bottle of Keith's India Pale Ale (which I prefer to think of as a lager) acquired some bite, while still introducing a certain sweet element. Good stuff. I recommend you try it.
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Take two boxes of blue vicks mints...
Put in a vodka bottle and let the mints dissolve completely (they will...)
Do not forget to put the bottle in the freezer... and you will get something really refreshing...
I find the best thing is to pour it straight down the toilet and avoid the middle man.
Been there, done that.
It's a belgian beer called kwak.
Got little floaties of chocolate flakes in there.
On the other hand there's skittlekwak...
A friend of mine recently experimented with haribo and vodka.
Place 1 bag of Haribo cola bottles* in 70cl of vodka and leave in the fridge for 3-4 weeks.
The result is a pleasant sweet tasting liquid that makes it really hard to walk the 200 yards to my house.
If you are unfamiliar with Haribo any gelatinous cola flavoured sweet\candy will do fine.
Paul Gogarty
This was a drink we made over the 1999->2000 new years eve/new years day night.
The ingredients?
Red Bull
Coke
Milk
Beer (probably fosters)
Skittles
and i think there was some Cayenne pepper in there too, although don't quote me on that!
results?
Impressive.
I mixed my semen with my beer and it tasted yum!!!
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that's the old skool candy treat.
watermelon and vodka
"Coors Light is a relatively decent light beer,"
Coors is not a beer, it is a lager. How can I trust anyone to offer an objective tasting of Skittlebrau if he can't tell the difference between beer and lager.
I think these things should be taken more seriously. Otherwise great nations have been destroyed for serving lousty beer.
Lowenbrau? "Dark Beer"? Surely some mistake.
It's not exactly Guinness. It's probably lighter than a decent pale ale.
I mean *hic* Eureka!
Fizzies!
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I am surprised he did not try the American favorite watered down beer. Skittles and budweiser....well at least there would be SOME taste!
You know what they say about having sex in a canoe and Budweiser.....
Gorkman
Bisto (Gravy) + Vodka. The worst thing I have ever tasted!
Michael, why not devote your time to maintaining a personal blog instead of this slashdot nonsense. I would hate to think that Slashdot was taking time out of your mission to inform the masses of all the worthwhile news that is out there on the web. This is obviously much more important than the chinese putting a man into orbit.
Iron City is supposed to be pretty good (I've never had it).
I've had good brew in Rochester, MN.
Carolina Pale Ale is my current fav, it's made right down the road a ways.
I doubt any beer snob in America has to go very far to find a good microbrew. As for the mainstream "beers", well... this IS the land of iced tea.
John.
A couple of weeks ago I think me my mates found how to make a proper pan-galatic-gargle-blaster.
;)
For full effect it is best doing this towards the end of night when there is fair bit of alcohol in the blood stream. Doing this early is not a good idea because being sober you will look on the thought of doing this as nothing short of spectualy stupid.
The recipe is as follows. Find a bar that serves all 3 colours of Aftershock. Thats the red, green and blue.
Then ask for a round consisting of a shot of red and a shot of gin. So in effect a double shot of gin and aftershock mixed together.
This has earned it the approriate name *Gin-Shock*.
Take the red Gin-Shock and down it 1.
Next proceed to order a green Gin-Shock and down it 1.
Next proceed to order a blue Gin-Shock and again down this in 1.
I would recommend a 3-5 minute break between Gin-Shock rounds. This provides the optimimal time for the drink to be absorbed into the blood. (It also provides time for the screaming, cries of pain and cursing to die down).
Anyone who throws up during this most sacried of drinking rituals should be wisely given the boot and referred to as, well as we say in Scotland "A big jessy" or "A big girls blouse".
Now 10 minutes after performing this ritual the effect of the drink on your brain should kick in and to quote Douglas Adams it "is like getting your brain smashed out by a golden brick with a slice of lemon rapped round it".
The hangover from it is rather spectacular with you promising things like you will never ever do that again while lieing in hospital. (Stomach pumps have no effect on this drink as it melts through your stomach). But off course you will
If this is not enough proof for it to claim its place as the REAL pan-galatic-gargle-blaster then consider this.
Remembering the lore of the wisest phrase in the universe "Never drink more than 2 pan-galatic-gargle-blasters unless you are a 6-tonne Aruoterian Mega-Donkey with bronchail pneumonia". Now Aftershock is more or less 40% proof cough-medicine hence it acts to clear the lungs of a 6-tonne Aruoterian Mega-Donkey.
Enjoy!
I like to pour liquor into my girlfriend's ass and then have her shit it out into a glass and then drink it myself. She doesn't let me do it too often, cause it kinda burns her butthole.
She likes to do something similar, except with me cumming in her ass, shitting out the cum, and she drinks it. I've actually got a video of this that is shared on Kazaa.
Delicious.
We didn't have any limes for the Corona, so we used a couple of lime Skittles instead. Later, we tried some other flavors. Wasn't too bad.
Mostly, we were just disappointed that the Skittles didn't actually float.
"No fair, you changed the outcome by measuring it!" - Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth
Are they gonna be original, wild berry, or that one blue bagged kind? Man this is big news!
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I drink Saranac; and Labatt's, Molsons, Moosehead, Grizzly, etc are all a step down for me, I happen to like tasty all-malt (no corn, no rice) beers.
To me, Molson Ale, Molson Lager and Molson Canadian taste like watered down beer.
and Old Speckled Hen. Flat and tasteless, what do you do to remove the body and yeast taste? Heh, I generalize, I do like the cans of Ruddles, and the cask conditioned Ruddles county ale I had was quite good.
I agree with you about mass market American beers, the only Budweiser to pass my lips in the last few years was the Czech kind. So, I buy kegs of all malt beer, usually Saranac Pale Ale. I don't think Saranac is big enough to export to England, but you can look for Sam Adams, they're almost as good.
Why Skittles when they could've used Smarties? Smarties are by far more tasty!
By Smarties, I mean these Canadian Smarties, the same ones found in Dairy Queen Blizzards, not these silly American Smarties (Rockets in Canada). Yum, imagine an alcohol based Smartie Blizzard!
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Atleast that was first time I ever heard of Skittles & Beer....
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beer is meant to have a bitterness to it. Deal with it, or drink something else.
Like cider. Cider's good. Really good.
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8 Jolly Ranchers (Green apple, peach, and raspberry are my favorites) per ounce of cheap vodka. Takes a day or so to dissolve.
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why not try Skittlebrau with a fine cider beverage, like k or woodchuck. or am i the only cider drinker in the place.
When will Mars, the maker of Skittles, attack this with a "cease and desist". They are VERY touchy about their image, and won't like the "unwholesome" elements of this.
I actually had some last night. The guy put two lemon skittles in each bottle during the bottling process. The remaining yeast in the bottle eats all the skittle so there are no pieces left.
It really is quite tasty. But it's not much different than any other type of flavored beer, it just uses skittles instead of rasberry juice or something like that.
Gotta love the name though.
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Drinking (in reference to alcolic beverages) has always been subject to much debate. Most people say that drinking is bad for your health. There are some who even claims that it is good for you. Then there's also those who said that there's good and there's bad of it. These people promotes drinking in 'morderation'. Don't ask me what, I mean, what the hell is 'in morderation'. How much is morderate?
;-)
Personally, I don't drink.. At all.. Period! Never had! Not in my entire life.. But I've seen what happens to those who did, in excess!
I was hospitalised few months ago for acute infection of the lymphonode. Bad enough with high-fever, two days later, SARs hits asia and the doctors has been asking me whether I got coughing and sneezing too. Luckily I did not, otherwise I would have been isolated with the rest of the SARs cases, but I digress
Anyway, I was placed in a two bed room. The other patient in the bed next to me was there for kidney failure or something. His urine has turned blue in colour! Excessive drinking!
Two doctors attended to him, a physician and a psychytrist. I can stand the physician. Normally he'll just examine the guy and give comments and such on how to get better. It's the other doctor, he came and starts lecturing about the evilness of drinking and what he should do in order to wean off his drinking problem.
Okay-okay... That not too bad, it's when his favourite (my emphasis) uncle came and starts lecturing him on his problems, telling him to think about his family, his wife, himself, kids, father, mother and host lot more responsibilities. I mean, I'm the one who got depressed after hearing all these. Well, he is sitting on the other bed and you can hear everything!
This link "Is Alcohol Good or Bad for Your Health?" the Pros and Cons. Sort of objective though.
This one talks about Kids and Alcohol, a short article but quite okay for those who wants a quick look.
And finally, this one explains why hundreds of millions of people never drinks at all throughout their whole life. Me included...
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The oldest brewery in America. Unfortunately, I can not find in around Boston, but I get it when I am down in Pennsylvania. It is one of the better non-microbrew bears from America.
Beer Floats
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moonshine + skittles.
My friends and I call popular American beers canoe beer.
Why?
What do having sex in a canoe and American beer have in common?
They're both fucking close to water.
Of course, there is plenty of good micro-brewery beer made in the US, including that which orignates from my basement.
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OBTW, Rogue Ales were brewed in Newport, OR the last time I checked.
There's good beer to the south too.
"Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries!"
I wonder if Mr Groening was using KDE when he thought up this episode...?
It's not a bug, it's a feature.
Tastes like lime Froot Loops.
the result is vigorous fizzing, and a curious skin develops on the surface.
the drink tastes vile, and is flat. i recommend this to no-one.
...the Official Skittles Vodka website!
That stuff is baaaaaaad.
A.
Ah, computer dating -- it's like pimping, but you rarely have to use the phrase "upside your head" -- Bender
Anchor Steam is fine, but most micros from the northwest are overhopped, usually with foul tasting cascade and cluster(fuck) hops. IMHO, A good beer has balance between the hop bitterness and malt sweetness; bonus points to barley wines with an alcohol "heat" flavor. An excessively bitter beer is no better than the Budmillors sex-in-a-canoe beer.
Also, not all good american beer comes from the Pacific Northwest. Sierra Nevada makes alot of good beers (they're in Colorado, I think) and Goose Island in Chicago makes a large variety of good beers including cask conditioned ales on hand pump. Also, I highly recommend "Big Shoulders" porter from the Chicago Brewing company -- it's the definitive porter.
It's not hard to try all sorts of different beers in the US. My grocery store, in addition to a few local microbrews, usually has Guiness, Bass, Boddies and Stella for sale.
I can get Guinness and Stella at the corner on tap, half a mile way is a "English" pub, two miles away there's a pub with 150 beers on tap, and 15 minutes away is Beers of the World, with probably 40 different English beers, 20 different Scottish, and hundreds of beers from around the world (no Fat Tire, sadly).
How about Pete's Wicked, they're pretty big and all over the US?
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um... Mr. Guy says:
What The Fuck?
It's in the Northeast. Maybe you've heard of it.
If you haven't, I hereby offer you an opportunity to gracefully stand down your exclusive claim on regional beer quality and save some face.
There are some fine brews made in the Pacific Northwest, but to propose that beer of equal or greater quality doesn't exist elsewhere in the USA is simply ignorant.
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