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New App Mixes New Drinks With What You Have
Pickens writes "The magic of a new app called 'Top Shelf' is that if you want to mix a new drink, the app thinks the way most of us do — instead of going out to buy the ingredients, it shows you how to build a new drink with the ingredients you have available. Feeling indecisive? Let Top Shelf pick a random recipe for you. You can get a random drink from the entire database, a specific category, your favorites, search results, or the liquor cabinet."
All I have is my wife and a bottle of bourbon?
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I have been using Top Shelf for at least 3 years. It's one of the first apps I ever installed on my 1st gen iPod Touch.
Doesn't everyone just throw whatever they have in a glass to see if it's good? Why stick to established recipes?
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Put booze in glass, drink.
Do you really need a recipe for that?
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There is no Android version! This is Slashdot after all, we like to have customization on our mobile devices, not just one man's way.
Two or more fluids in a cocktail glass, at least one of them alcoholic. Brake fluid and Everclear, for example. Or single-malt and drain cleaner.
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Be nice to mention what platform it's for.
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This app is awesome and extremely handy, but new? This was one of the first apps I downloaded for my iPhone 3G, well over two years ago, when it was free in an "introductory" special and had a different name (which has long escaped me).
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Now, what website does this for food? I'd probably even be willing to scan stuff if it would help. I don't have any secrets in my pantry.
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Is this really news? I mean even for idle it seems a bit low. FWIW Top Shelf is not the only app that does this, there's at least one other one.
FYI, the program cost 99 cents USD from the apple store. In additional it has more bad reviews then good ones.
No, you can't.
As to what is the difference - try it and see for yourself. The key difference is that Everclear and water tastes like watered-down Everclear, and good vodka is delicious.
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The real thing comes in a fancy bottle, with a fancy hard to pronounce name, like Pabst
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Vodka, even "good" vodka, is lifeless. Water and ethanol at it's best, where even the best companies' claim to fame is just how many times they've filtered it to get any and all taste out of it.
Try a good whiskey. I prefer bourbon, but any higher tier whiskey will do. I don't see how anyone would drink vodka except as random alcohol to pour into a juice when other spirits are available. If you don't like the whiskey, try a spiced rum instead. Don't like it as much as whiskey, but they're still enjoyable too.
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Isn't there a rule about not mixing your drinks. To prevent having the trots the day after, for example.
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Not in the US: Vodka'' is neutral spirits so distilled, or so treated after distillation with charcoal or other materials, as to be without distinctive character, aroma, taste, or color. (Code of Federal Regulations, title 27, volume 1)
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These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Unless it’s flavoured vodka, I guess.
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That's incredibly depressing.
If by delicious, you mean as little taste as possible, then you are correct. Good vodka should be pretty much tasteless.
Most of what passes as "good" vodka, at least here in Canada, is pretty bad. It's not supposed to mean filtered a billion times, it's supposed to mean it tastes good. I didn't really get what vodka was about until I was given a bottle of Luksusowa, which is delicious on the rocks or even just as a straight sipping drink.
I'm with you about whiskey though. I have a hard time finding good bourbon (though had the pleasure of drinking some good ones over Christmas) so I mostly stick to scotch. Mmmmmmm....
All I have is my wife and a bottle of bourbon?
All *I* have is tap water and no wife
Vodka, even "good" vodka, is lifeless.
There's a hint of taste corresponding to what the vodka was made of. But, yeah, most people do not perceive that.
Water and ethanol at it's best, where even the best companies' claim to fame is just how many times they've filtered it to get any and all taste out of it.
Try a good whiskey. I prefer bourbon, but any higher tier whiskey will do. I don't see how anyone would drink vodka except as random alcohol to pour into a juice when other spirits are available. If you don't like the whiskey, try a spiced rum instead. Don't like it as much as whiskey, but they're still enjoyable too.
To me whiskey tastes like alcohol which had a piece of old rotten wood immersed in it for months.
Taken literally that would mean only Everclear is a 'real' vodka, which is of course ludicrous. Many Vodka's are known for the trace mineral left in them from either the source water or from the distilling process (copper kettles mostly). Anyone who thinks trace minerals don't affect taste is an idiot.
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Are driving me crazy. The drinks turn out good though, I just read it as a squirt of this, two thumbs of that and mouthful of that other stuff. Plant a cocktail berry and an umbrella somewhere in there and drink up.
Luckily, I RTFA and it says they have metric units as well. The first time I've seen a (decent) drink recipe app that has centiliters. Just in time for new year's eve!
Many Vodka's are known for the trace mineral left in them from either the source water or from the distilling process (copper kettles mostly)
No, the residual taste comes mostly from fusel oils
then again, for some people booze is dinner.
It's also important to note that most (possibly all, but I'm certain of "most") Scandinavian countries have the same laws. Unless it's flavoured vodka, stick to Polish and Russian brands actually manufactured in Poland and Russia. A lot of American vodkas have Russian names, there's a reason why most of them are on the bottom shelf. Stolichnaya's cheap enough that you shouldn't be saving money by buying Kentucky "Kamchatka" or "Crystal Palace" swill.
Drink your liquor straight. If you want to be a little more wimpy you can add some pure rainwater. Don't allow anything to sap and impurify your precious bodily fluids.
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Call me old fashioned, but this is not a problem. Usually, I just pour whatever I have !
Scotch and water caught on that way!!
Green Creme de Mint and OJ, we tried it at my frat! We could not give it away except the serious alcis
Most of what passes as "good" vodka, at least here in Canada, is pretty bad.
Especially if it comes in a skull.
http://crystalheadvodka.com
most generic vodkas (plastic jug, cheap price) are essentially watered down everclear. But the people who buy it (students and drunks) aren't buying it for the flavor.
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These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Wow.
If you're goign to mix your liquor, why do you need a guide? It's fucking trivial.
* pick something sweet, citrus, or salty ... or you could just drink your liquor straight, like most adults.
* pick a liquor
* maybe some ice
* liquor
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Wow! Someone else with good taste! I found that brand through a friend of mine. I really don't care for vodka's in general, But Luksusowa is really quite good. I found I don't care for Grain Alcohols at all. Potato (like Luksusowa) and Grape, (NOT GRAPE FLAVORED) like Ciroc are pretty good. they're excellent in gimlets, lemon drops, and screwdrivers, but the best part is they stand very well on their own.
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It is the way of tech. Declare something ancient is new and that the ancient ways of doing the same thing are all obsolete.
Never mind if the old way is vastly superior.
I downloaded some food versions of this same sort of thing when I first got my iDevice. They just made me appreciate Google more.
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