Cocktails

Software

Speakeasy Cocktails For iPad: Learn How To Make A Real Drink

9:15AM August 12, 2011 | Casey Chan

I’ve been on a cocktail tip lately where all I want to drink is these fancy (and expensive!) cocktails that take a whole lotta ingredients, meticulous management, violent shaking and some tender love and care to make. I never imagined myself making them at home but with Speakeasy Cocktails teaching me, I just might. More »

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Emergency Cocktail Case Will Get You Drunk In Times Of Trouble

1:20AM August 7, 2011 | Kwame Opam

You’ve just woken up. It’s 3 in the afternoon after your all-night bender, and you feel like death’s shit. There’s only one solution for the modern lush: hair of the dog. Luckily, the emergency cocktail case has you covered. More »

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A Cocktail Dress That Dispenses Cocktails

11:20AM June 23, 2011 | Kyle Wagner

What has Lady Gaga done to the world? It seems all anyone wants to wear is meat clothes or bubble dresses. Now there’s this admittedly kind of flattering dress that dispenses milk and alcohol for playing truth or dare. More »

Gadgets

I Swear One-Handed Cocktail Juicing Is Not An Innuendo

10:40AM June 3, 2011 | Kyle Wagner

Look, I know how this sounds. But if you make a lot of cocktails, it’s easy to get overwhelmed with ingredients everywhere, and before you know it, everything’s sticky and you have to wipe down the whole counter. More »

Gadgets

This Is Your Brain On Cocktails

7:20AM April 30, 2011 | Matt Buchanan

Marcos Luytens’ FlavourCollider is a hell of a party trick: Using a Neurosky MindWave EEG headset to measure brain activity, it translates the subconscious experience of tasting an intense cocktail into a kaleidoscopic spray of real-time visuals. [Marcos Luytens, Future Everything via Underwire]

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This Is A Bloody Mary

6:40AM March 31, 2011 | Matt Buchanan

It’s a Bloody Mary, which may be the most chemically complex cocktail in the world, broken down into its component flavours and ingredients. More »

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The Graphic Recipe Guide To Prepare Perfect Cocktails

2:05AM February 1, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

Brazilian illustrator Fabio Rex has created a really simple graphic recipe guide to create perfect cocktails, from the Margarita to the Caipirinha to Long Island Iced Tea. At last, infographics put to a good use. More »

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How To Spray A Fully Formed Cocktail Out Of A Soda Gun

2:00PM January 27, 2011 | Matt Buchanan

The Waylon is a delicious, deceptively simple cocktail: smoke-infused Coca-Cola, water and bourbon. It’s not shaken or stirred like the average mixed drink, though. More »

Science

Amazing Jelly Shots: This Art Gets You Wasted

8:00AM October 2, 2010 | Joel Johnson

There are jelly shots. And then there are the shots from My Jello Americans: Cory Kete, Moe Sheehan and Megan Booth have elevated the jelly shot into an art form. An art form that gets you wasted. More »

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Rainbow Shots Turn Even More Rainbow In Your Stomach

3:35AM September 25, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

There’s not much you can say about this video of a bartender pouring out a series of rainbow-hued shots than “WOW”. I wonder if they all tasted different? More »