Posted by Alex on November 21st, 10:04 am (9 hours ago)
It seems like a good idea at the time.
Some terrible drunken nights end with getting a tattoo. Others start with Tattoo.
Captain Morgan Tattoo is an extra dark rum from Captain Morgan that was made to compete with jagermeister for people looking to drop a shot of dark liquor into an energy drink. This stuff was basically designed to pair with caffeine for inspired, all-night binges.
I can’t argue that it doesn’t taste good. It certainly has more taste than other comparable rums on the market. The blend of spices used in making Tattoo give it a very strong berry character, one reminiscent of a cheap raspberry liqueur. There’s a little bit of extra spice on the finish and it’s not awful to shoot.
But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. This isn’t a quality bottle of booze. The sweetness is sugary and sticky. It’s more like an alcoholic syrup than a well-crafted rum. And the fact that it’s only 70 proof helps take some of the edge off.
So forget shooting it or sipping it. This is best used as a mixer. It makes quite possibly the tastiest rum and coke I’ve ever had. The concoction is almost sickeningly sweet, but tastes like nothing more than a cherry coke. You can down an entire bottle of Tattoo in one night by mixing it with just a two liter of coke. I know that because I did it.
It wasn’t my best idea–the combination of booze, sugar and caffeine kept me up for 36 hours straight–but not my worst, either. After all, that’s what Tattoo was basically designed for: allowing you to make really terrible decisions while drinking, as far as you can tell, cherry coke.
The high sugar content and impurities of Tattoo will make for a monster hangover. Fair warning.
If you’re a fan of Captain Morgan’s spiced rum, definitely give the Tattoo a try. At $17 a bottle, it’s moderately priced (though you shouldn’t view that $17 as an investment. It will all be gone in the morning).
The Cherry Chocolate Ale from O’Fallon’s Brewery made me wonder what kind of drinkers they were hoping to target. This beer had the character of both a decent English ale and an overly fruity, too-cute-for-its-own-good girly beer.
The beer pours well with an enticing aroma of coffee and a hint of cherry. It has that slightly sour smell of a dark wheat beer. It poured a cloudy dark red amber with one finger of quickly-dissipating head.
Right off the bat, it tastes like a serious beer. It’s something like a Bass but not quite as good. But on the finish, the namesake flavors emerge. The dark chocolate flavor is okay, but the cherry is more cough-medicine than tasty. There’s also a slight sour note on the finish and the chocolate-covered cherry taste tends to linger on the tongue.
O’Fallon’s Brewery is located outside of St. Louis and distributes across Missouri. This is the first beer I’ve had from the brewery and while I applaud their endeavors, I frown at this beer. Fight the curiosity and pass up the Cherry Chocolate Ale.
The five-month process of an Anheuser-Busch takeover finally came to a close this week, according to a report from Dow Jones newswires. The new company is called Anheuser-Busch InBev and produces more than 200 brands.
The final selling price for A-B stock owners was $70 a share. Apparently this was worth considerably more than 150 years of American brewing independence.
The combined headquarters will remain in St. Louis. The city’s most significant institution seems like it will remain generally similar for the immediate future.
This commercial features every beer drinker’s dream girl. You’ll understand at the end.
Troegs has been around for a little more than a decade and is based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, their small size and dedication to quality means that they only distribute within a three-hour drive from the brewery.
In a combination of humanitarian goodwill and earth-friendly design, Heineken and architect John Habraken developed the Heineken World Bottle (Wobo) in the 1970s. Basically, it’s a brick that holds beer and the idea somehow didn’t catch on.
Mr. Heineken’s idea came after a visit to the Caribbean where he saw two problems: beaches littered with bottles and a lack of affordable building materials. The WOBO became his vision to solve both the recycling and housing challenges that he had witnessed on the islands.
The Wobos were basically designed to fit together like any other brick and mortar and worked pretty well except in cases of abnormal shapes or corners. There are now only two remaining structures made out of Wobos: a shed at the Heineken compound and a wall at the Heineken museum.
I can’t help but think that maybe one of the dooming factors for Wobos was the fact that anything you build with them would inevitably smell like stale beer. Thanks to boozebuzz faithful Rick Bannon for the tip.
This cocktail’s name would suggest an overt delicacy, but this martini variation has as much bite as beauty. Though it’s Asian-inspired and can be paired with Asian food, its main spirit is tequila. Make sure you have a premium blanco tequila, or this recipe could be a disaster.
Add ingredients to a shaker and shake vigorously. Pour into a martini glass.
If you want to be ultra fancy, you can coat the edges of the martini glass with sugar. You could substitute another melon liqueur for the Midori, but the quality of Midori is going to make for a much tastier martini.
According to a report from the Washington Post, Germans have been shaken by recently disclosed reports on the state of their troops in Afghanistan. Too much time “sitting around” in has led their soldiers to be overweight and consume beers daily.
Of course, Germany has to blame itself first. From the Post:
Last year, the German armed forces shipped more than 260,000 gallons of home-brewed suds to its troops serving in northern Afghanistan, as well as more than 18,000 gallons of wine. On a per-soldier basis, that was the equivalent of a ration of 26 ounces of beer a day, all year long.
This pipeline of booze running from the homeland to Afghanistan could be a contributing factor to the fact that 40 percent of German soldiers age 18 to 29 were overweight. That’s even higher than the percentage in the civilian population. About 10 percent of soldiers are considered clinically obese.
A passive lifestyle, combined with the beer and sausages a-plenty are blamed for the downfall of the German troops’ conditioning. Not even Poland is scared anymore.
On one hand, Il Valore Sangiovese is a $4 bottle of wine. On the other hand, its grapes are 100 percent Sangiovese grown in the Puglia region of Italy.
What comes out in the mix is an unassuming but pleasant wine. I sampled a 2007 vintage and was pleasantly surprised. This isn’t a great wine, but it might be the best $4 wine I’ve had.
The taste is straightforward and simple–strong grapes with just a hint of red berries. The fruit is somewhat demure and the finish is perhaps a touch too dry. At 12.5 percent abv, it leaves a little bit more booze on the back of the tongue than more expensive wines.
If you’re looking for a simple Italian wine and you’re on a budget, or if you’re looking for a simple pair for a simple meal, Il Valore Sangiovese is a decent choice.
The Buena Vista has been making normal-sized Irish coffees for 50 years.
Last week, the Buena Vista Cafe broke the Guinness World Record by mixing up a 15-gallon Irish coffee. The glass used to hold the coffee, cream, sugar and whiskey was three feet tall.
A case of Tullamore Dew filled the glass one-third full as the scent of whiskey permeated the air. A box of confectioner’s sugar and countless pots of fresh-brewed, sustainably grown organic coffee was added to the gigantic glass as the crowd cheered in anticipation. Just-whipped heavy cream topped off the concoction to create the world’s largest Irish coffee.
After the drink was deemed worthy of record-breaking status, it was quickly divided among the crowd. That’s nothing new for Buena Vista, which claims to have served up more than 37 million Irish coffees in the last 56 years.
Leave it to the Irish to have invented a breakfast drink with whiskeyin it, and leave it to Americans to make 15 gallons’ worth.
For the second year in a row, Miller LLC is releasing a limited edition of High Life in camouflage cans, reinforcing the notion that nothing mixes quite like cheap beer and firearms. Too bad that combination doesn’t mix with class.
“We received a lot of positive feedback from the launch of last year’s limited-edition, blaze-orange High Life cans, so this year’s outdoor-themed packaging is a way to continue that tradition, and include an even broader array of outdoors activities,” said Kevin Oglesby, Miller High Life senior brand manager in a statement.
While the deer-hunting crowd is clearly the target market for the camo cans sold in either 24- or 30-packs, it’s fun to imagine what other “outdoor activities” Miller includes in their “broader array.”
Beer would certainly improve fishing, hiking, camping, rock climbing, beach volleyball, freeze-tag, whitewater rafting, sitting around and getting drunk, wind sprints, cross-country skiing, standing around and getting drunk, water polo, spelunking, chugging until someone pukes, field hockey and orienteering.
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