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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."
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
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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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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.
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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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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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.
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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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.
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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I find the best thing is to pour it straight down the toilet and avoid the middle man.
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.
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That's a variation of "Bar Skittles". "Skittles" is very similar to 10-pin bowling. So much so in fact, that in the UK there is an astonishing number of people who refer to 10-pin bowling as Skittles. The former being a fairly recent import.
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.
Actually the purest ethanol you will get from fermentation will be about 20% ethanol, coming from a pure mixture of sugar (glucose and/or fructose) and water. You would have to use a special high-alcohol yeast called turbo yeast.
So how is Everlear produced? They ferment grain (because it's a lot cheaper than grapes and easier to ferment than potatoes) to the highest percent alcohol and then distill it. It is distilled to 190 proof (95% ethanol). This is the highest proof you can get because the ethanol and water form an azeotropic mixture, there will always be a little water in the mixture no matter how much you distill it. Chemists can make a purer ethanol but not by a regular form of distillation.
By the way, the flavor of distilled beverages comes about in two ways. In making a distilled beverage you either pot distill it, a process in which you do a very impure distillation. This allows a lot of chemicals, including flavor and color, to come over into the ethanol and water mixture. Pot distillation is simple but it can keep some very dangerous chemicals (such as methanol) and off-flavors if not done properly. You often have to double or triple distill (repeat the process two or three times) in order to make a decent product.
The second way to make a distilled beverage is to fractionally distill (a special type of distillation) the mixture to produce "pure" alcohol (190 proof, 95% ethanol) and then water it down to the proper proof and add in flavors. This is the way most hard alcohols are made today because it is much more efficient and it produces a very consistent product.
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