April 2009

Nearly every guy – and most women – on the planet have heard about beer goggles! Typically when women hear about it, they are learning of it in the most negative manner possible. That’s right. Some guy, somewhere, met them when he had too much to drink that night and thought that he was attracted to them when he clearly was not. For women – and for me – this is man at his worst: a pig. But for many men, they play this off as the beer goggle routine: “I was so drunk that she looked a lot more attractive than I thought, until I saw her the next day!”

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Which do you prefer to drink when it comes to serious highball mixers and cocktails? Do you like whiskey for its sour mash and charcoal filtered offerings? Or are you a rum cat that prefers to don a pirate costume (in your mind) and enjoy the happy, amiable attitude that tends to go hand-in-hand with consuming vast amounts of rum when out on the town partying? Either way, you are drinking a well known beverage, that being rum or whiskey. As for this blogger: I am a solely a rum guy…whiskey just brings out the fierce, unadulterated guilt in me and I purge!

Best Two Rum Cocktails
1. Obviously, the rum and Coke concoction has become world famous for its mixture of cola and rum, typically augmented with a sliced lime. Where would we be without this drink?
2. Pina’ Colada: this tasty, coconut mixer is the highball paradise that you see in every vacation to an exotic destination commercial that airs on TV. The sweetness of the coconut and the mixture of fine rum make this drink a bona fide winner!

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Have you ever wondered why domestic beer companies advertise so much and so often? Sometimes it’s hard to make it through your day without being told about Coors, Miller or Budweiser. There are ample good reasons for this – that you always remember such beer brands. The most simplified answer is thus: when you get to the bar or the local store later that night and you are trying to decide what beer that you should purchase, you think of their brands first. Of course, cats like me always head for the pricier and tastier beers, which often tend to be imports…but you get the point!

Mostly Domestic Beer Companies Advertise on TV
Have you ever noticed that you rarely, if ever, see a beer company that is known for hosting gourmet beer (with the exception of Heineken and a few choice other companies) advertising on TV about their beer offerings?

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I pose this question: do you drink rum and Coke or Jack and Coke? One offers a smoother highball (rum) that is sweet, well balanced and flavorful. The other offers a sweeter, thicker texture that warms you up (Jack and Coke) and goes down smooth. Heck they both taste great together. But, forever and a day I have heard people go one way or the other. That being: I only like Jack and Coke, or I only like Rum and Coke. So which is your favorite? Even if you don’t like either…if you had to pick, which one would it be?

To Drink Jack or Rum and Coke?
I personally favor the rum and Coke combination even though I like the taste of the Jack and Coke mixed better together. Two reasons here. Firstly, whiskey makes me a mean old angry person, whereas rum makes me happy. Secondly, whiskey tends to give me headaches, mean old headaches.

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Another timeless classic that involves mixing vodka with another beverage is most certainly upon the drink loving, highball world of tomorrow. And this drink is not all that new. Rather, it has been spawned and coined over the past eight or so years, ever since the Red Bull energy drink fad really took to light. I am, of course, speaking of nothing other than vodka mixed with Red Bull my dear friends! If you have never had this drink imagine a light, fruity soda that packs your body and brain with energy all night long. Somehow, even though you are unable to detect its presence, there are a few shots of your favorite well vodka contained within this beverage. Imagine that? Get drunk, stay awake…party all night long and not taste the vodka? This could, quite possibly, be the best thing since the Long Island Iced Tea!

Three Reasons to Love the Vodka and Red Bull Mix Drink
There are many different ways to enjoy the wonderful attributes of vodka.

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Ode’ to the lovely keg parties of a childhood past. Those sordid events where somebody always vomited on your carpeting and drinking games were taking place all over the house. A party where the police may or may not shut it down and underground teenagers partying were the mainstay. A staple of collegians and fraternities the world afar. Yes indeed, keg parties have a fond memory in my noggin!

How to Throw a Keg Party
To throw a keg party you need several things. Something to eat, a keg of cold beer, tap and bucket of ice, plastic cups (typically red, 16 oz cups) and plenty of friends who like to drink ice cold beer. Acquire all of these items at the grocery store (most sell kegs now) and then invite your friends.

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If you have never performed the astute and highly popular partying drinking motion of being held upside down by your best friends as you pull a long suckle off the tap of a freshly opened keg of beer…then let me fill you in really quickly, shall I? Basically you will need a few things in order to pull off this act. You will require a fresh keg of ice cold beer, tapped and on ice with the tap attached. You will also need at least two other friends to hold you while you drink. And of course, you must have a rampant appetite for beer!

How to do an Upside Down Keg Stand
Position yourself in front of the keg stand. Brace your arms around the keg and do a pull-up as your friends grab your legs and hold you upside down. Take the tap and place the end of it in your mouth. Let the tap open and drink as much beer as you possibly can, and as fast as you can.

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If you have never enjoyed Gin and Juice, and I am not talking about the rap tune by Snoop Dog, then you are missing out big time my friends! Mixing juice and gin together is one of the more timeless highball recipes, enjoyed at bars and nightclubs far and wide. And you wouldn’t expect me to yap all about gin and juice without at least offering you some free highball recipes for the taking now would you? So what follows below are three distinct recipes for mixing the two variants and special video bonus!

Three Classic Gin and Juice Recipes

Gin Citrus Surprise

Things You’ll Need:
• 2 oz. Gin
• 3 oz. Orange Juice
• 2 oz. Grapefruit Juice 
 
How to Make it:
Pour all ingredients into shaker. Fill a Highball glass almost full of ice cubes, and dump ice into shaker. Shake well and pour drink into Highball glass.

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Ah beer and steak, that always timeless combination. It is as perfect as strawberries and whip cream, chocolate chips and cookies, and alcohol and weddings! What would we beer drinkers have to resort to if we did not have such tasty beverages to enjoy with each and every meal? The best part about different beers is that they offer different flavors for the steak that you are grilling. Darker beers add more textures and marinate with sediment, while lighter beers offer more robust flavor and help to better soften the meat. One thing is for sure: steak just wouldn’t be the same without a beer to go along with it!

Beer goes great with steak before and afterwards!
Typically, you want to marinate your steak with the desired seasonings and about a bottle of beer per two cuts (NY strips) for at least an hour prior in your fridge. I always recommend using the beer that you prefer to drink, as it will best add the flavors that you desire to the cut that you plan on grilling.

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If you have never hear of this oddity before let me turn you on to an all too popular subject that revolves around extracting the pure alcohol that is contained in every loving bottle or can (preferably bottle) of foamy suds. You can actually harvest this nearly pure alcohol in a relatively easy manner and take the real beer shots. Some highly potent, highball shots that will leave you so dizzy you would swear that you are on an upside down roller coaster going backwards through a gravitational vortex the size of the moon; yeah it is that nutty my friends!

Why the Alcohol Gets you so Messed Up
Think about this. They say for about every beer that you drink you are actually consuming mostly calories and water and about one shot of diluted, 100-200 proof alcohol, depending upon the beer and its potency. So, rather than ingest so many empty calories, a fun way to get drunk fast is to simply extract the pure alcohol that is contained in every single bottle of delicious beer.

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Are wine shots the new beer shots? Well actually yes they are, but it is nothing new. Wine samplers and open chest inventories specials have forever been the norm, long before the game of taking beer shots was even invented by a drunken fraternity somewhere, at some Ivy League college in the United States. In fact, wine has been around for far longer than beer ever has. So indeed, wine shots and or sampling different wine rapidly, has been a tradition for thousands upon thousands of years.

How to Play the Game of Wine Shots
You need four people and plenty of cheap, red wine. You will also need a package of those disposable shot glasses. Set out fifty shot glasses on a table, per person, and fill each one with one ounce of red wine. That’s fifty ounces of red wine that you are all engaged and obligated to drink. Whoever drinks their fifty shots first wins. And, you must do it in less than fifty minutes.

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