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."

Comments

That was hilarious

[Dancin_Santa]

I've got brauspittle all over my keyboard!

choking..

[qewl]

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!

Mirror

[BrianGa]

http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:y_kcJKU-rtsJ: www.crazyengineer.net/projects/skittle.php+&hl=en& ie=UTF-8

thats not it...

[RTPMatt]

"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.

Skittle colour effects

[Bifurcati]

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

A haiku...

[Hobart]

four comments posted
the tcp syn times out
slashdotted so soon

Origin (Horatio Hornblower)

[Schezar]

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?

Re:Origin (Horatio Hornblower)

[zimage]

From bartleby.com

Life is not all beer and skittles, i.e. not all eating, drinking, and play; not all pleasure; not all harmony and love.

"Sport like life, and life like sport,
Isn't all skittles and beer."

As others have said, "skittles" is an old game similar to lawn-bowling

Mat Groening, in his genious, took this expression and showed what happens when Homer takes it literaly.

Gummi Beers

[SolubleFrank]

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.

What's next...

[TimeForGuinness]

I hope its the Flaming Homer

Re:What's next...

[Captain Large Face]

A Flaming Moe (ne Homer) can be made with the following ingredients (in equal parts) if you fancy it:

• Tequila
• Schnapps
• Creme De Menthe
• Krusty's Non Narkotik Kough Syrup For Kids*

* It is advisable to substitute this ingredient with a non-fictional cough syrup.

I've done this...

[xRizen]

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.

NO NO NO!

[azav]

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.

For American Beer

[16K Ram Pack]

I find the best thing is to pour it straight down the toilet and avoid the middle man.

Re:For American Beer

[Penguinshit]

I take umbrage to that statement. There is plenty of good American beer. It just happens to come from the Pacific Northwest.

Take, for instance, Anchor Steam (brewed in San Francisco, CA). Or anything from the Mendocino Brewing Company a little further north (Red Tail, Blue Heron, etc.). If you like something with that full flavor and a little less body, try one of the fine Oregonian brews from Full Sail.

Not all American beer is that Anheiser/Busch pisswater.

Give me hops, or give me death..!

Re:hmmm idea

[iq in binary]

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 ;)