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."

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That was hilarious

[Dancin_Santa]

I've got brauspittle all over my keyboard!

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.

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.

What's next...

[TimeForGuinness]

I hope its the Flaming Homer

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: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 ;)