Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Skittlebrau

Posted by michael on from the in-the-name-of-science dept.

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."

4 of 275 comments (clear)

  1. thats not it... by RTPMatt · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "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.

  2. Origin (Horatio Hornblower) by Schezar · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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?

    --
    GeekNights!
    Late Night Radio for Geeks!
  3. I've done this... by xRizen · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

  4. Re:hmmm idea by iq+in+binary · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You, my friend, are an idiot.

    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 ;)

    --
    Of all the Universal Constants, here's one I know: Nice guys finish last ;)