April 2011

What's old is in again: Egg White Cocktails

 

          

           The Pisco Sour at Oddfellows in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood is a beautiful drink. It’s a light, milky yellow color with red Peychaud bitter cutting through the frothy foam top and dribbling in little droplets to the bottom of the glass.  It tastes delicious, too—it’s light and effervescent and tastes just a bit like a milkshake, a bit like eggnog.

            Which is no surprise. A main ingredient is egg whites. 

Gato Negro San Pedro Wine

Gato Negro is Chile’s finest selling wine. Worldwide, it is a top wine marketing leader in more than fifteen countries. It has been known to over-deliver on its price point, even with a struggling economy. This has been the case for decades. Today, the Gato Negro brand sells over four million cases in seventy countries, contributing to the wine industry on five continents.

If you were to think about those numbers, approximately two Gato Negro bottles of wine are uncorked every two seconds. Or at any given time, hundreds of bottles are being shared all over the planet.

New Solution for ED: Beer with Viagra

Medical personnel and frustrated women around the world are constantly noting that Erectile Dysfunction is more common in men who have consumed beer, wine, or some other strange combination of spirits. To combat the embarrassing little problem of Erectile Dysfunction in men, Brew Dog brewers in the UK have created a masterful concoction: beer with Viagra.

The new Viagra-laced brew is called Royal Virility Performance. Drinking three Royal Virility Performance beers is equal to taking one Viagra pill with three beers.  As commenters across the net have observed, the idea of a beer that actually contains Viagra is a welcome relief to many, if indeed the story is credible, which it may or may not be.

Just one Royal Virility Performance beer costs ten British pounds, which is a stiff price to pay for satisfaction at the end of the night.

 

Sip Into Spring With Sangria

Try A Fun Sangria Recipe
With spring swiftly approaching, some of us may be worried about what to do with our red wine. Just as their are summer cocktails, there are spring and summer wines, and reds often do not fall into that category.

Their full-bodied flavor and heavy texture can often be at odds with the heat, driving many of us to ignore our favorite Cabernet Sauvignon and indulge in a nice Sauvignon Blanc instead.

But, just because the weather is getting warmer, that is no reason to completely ignore the reds that you did not get a chance to open during the winter months. Nope, this is an opportunity to make lemons into lemonade, or to be more specific wine into Sangria.

Another Dubious-Sounding Study About Alcohol

Can Alcohol Help You Learn More?

I just came across another dubious-sounding study touting the benefits of alcohol consumption; this time, the claim is that drinking alcohol can help the brain remember more than it did previously. The idea behind the University of Texas at Austin study is a little complicated—the researchers believe that alcohol only helps certain areas of the brain remember through neuro-plasticity, which is the re-wiring of the brain.