Posts tagged as Alcohol
How To Waste Money
"The dollar per drink you might tip for some “well” alcohol on the rocks is not adequate these days for that Cucumber Basil Crush. Mixologists are becoming chefs, and take special care in how their drinks are assembled and served. And for that reason, I’d tip $2.50 to $3 on a $14 cocktail — even if the bartender isn’t a great conversationalist." READ MORE
Can You Have A Few Drinks After Running?
The pros to this piece are alcohol and Science. The con is exercise. I guess overall I can recommend it, but it's still a close-run thing.
British Man Commits Treason
"Design aside, you've got to question the capacity. The pint is too much. These colossal containers made sense back when Britain was a manufacturing power and when sweaty browed folk could quaff large quantities of liquid (often around 3-4% ABV) after a hard day hitting stuff, building things and generally working up a mighty thirst. But they're outdated in a nation where more people work in marketing and PR than manufacturing, where the majority of construction lies in building the hopes of deluded reality TV contestants or mountains of debt. Why don't we drink smaller measures? The pint really is an absurd amount of liquid when you think about it. That the only other drink sold in pints is milk says it all. Lovingly crafted beer shouldn't be classified as a commodity like semi-skimmed – it's a quality artisan product deserving of reverence equal to wine and spirits." READ MORE
Science Will Get You Drunk
Science meets alcohol! I believe I need to leave early today to do a little "research."
Alcohol Good
"Tiny portions of ethanol, the type of alcohol found in alcoholic beverages, can more than double the lifespan of a tiny worm known as C elegans." So larger amounts of alcohol probably double the lifespan of a larger specimen like a human, right? That's the way I'm choosing to interpret this finding.
How Drunk You're Going To Get
Attention wine drinkers: Scroll down here for a handy chart correlating alcohol content and blood alcohol concentration. [Via]
Space Wine!
Would you drink wine made with meteorites? Assuming someone else is buying, I can tell you that my answer is a resounding sure, why the hell not.
Cheap Wine Saves Lives
"In a working paper for the American Association of Wine Economists, [Cornell University economist Brad] Rickard and his team start off by looking at the states that allow grocery stores to sell wine, versus those that limit such sales to liquor stores. The increased competition of grocery stores selling wine, unsurprisingly, correlates with both lower wine prices and higher rates of wine consumption. There’s a surprising, public health benefit that grows out of that: States where wine makes up a larger part of total alcohol consumption tend to have lower rates of traffic fatalities."
More Drunk People Answering Their Cellphones
Binge drinking—or, as some of us refer to it, "drinking"—is getting popular: "About 17 percent of U.S. adults, or 38 million people, say they binge drink, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Binge drinkers reported an average of four episodes a month, each consisting of eight drinks at most, according to the report, which is based on data gathered during a 2010 survey. The biggest group of binge drinkers are young adults, with about 28 percent of people between ages 18 and 24 reporting binge drinking. Men are twice as likely as women to say they binge drink.... A 2009 survey showed that about 15 percent of U.S. adults binge drink. The apparent uptick in prevalence is likely due to the polling of more people with cellphones in the current report, the researchers said."
Avoid The Gym, It's Bad For Your Drinking
Further reasons to not work out: "A lean, muscular person will be less affected by drink than someone with more body fat: Water-rich muscle tissues absorb alcohol effectively, preventing it from reaching the brain."
