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Skittlebrau
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."
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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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.
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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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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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.
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.
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Z
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.
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All forms of leisurely (sp?) enjoyable alcohol contain ethanol. Every single one. The difference is in the fermentation.
Speaking from experience, Everclear is the purest form of ethanol available at your local Beverage Plus. It is strong enough to knock you on your ass and is that way for one reason: it was fermented from grains specifically for that purpose. Look at all your favorite alcoholic beverages, less than %15 of them are made from grain. Grains are an extremely good way to produce alcohol, but definitely not good for taste; hence the awful flavor of most grain-fermented beverages.
Everclear means business, so should you when you drink it
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