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Beer

Best Buzz for Your Beer Gut ~ The Best Diet Beers

The alcohol percentage and number of calories among different beers varies widely. In an attempt to find the best diet beer, I evaluated all major beers to determine which beers have the highest alcohol content per calorie. Methodology Alcohol Perce...

Homemade Beer Starter Kit

Do you want to make your own homemade beer? Mr. Beer has kits and accessories available to meet all your beer brewing needs including recipes, bottles, hops and everything you need to make great homemade beer. Brew 2 gallons in as few as 7 days so yo...

PBR. Why you never hear about it and why people are drinking it.

PBR as it is known, is making quite a comeback. From Portland Oregon to Asheville, North Carolina, PBR is a cult beer. They don't advertise but in cities like these, it is becoming the beer of choice for those that don't want to be told what to drink...

Beer, Beer Taps, Beer Koozies and...pretty much anything having to do with Beer!

Beer, what a wonderful drink it is. Perfect for any situation, whether it's a group of friends with their bottle koozies on the lake or a group of drinkers at a bar gathered around the beer taps, beer has a way of making anything just a little bit be...

Kegerators - Refrigerators for Beer - How to Make a Kegerator - Build Your Own

This is the place for everything about kegerators.  The main part is how to make your own at about half the cost of buying one.  If you can drill a hole, you can make a kegerator. This diy (do it yourself) project is easy and will provide y...

HILARIOUS HOPS

At HILARIOUS HOPS, where malt and mirth flow freely, we're sure there are more than a few brilliant beer brands that will make you smile, snicker or snort out loud. So, without further ado, the Guru of Brew will intr...

Ale

 Ale is a type of beer brewed from barley malt with a top-fermenting brewers yeast that ferments quickly, giving a sweet, full body and a fruity, and sometimes butter-like, taste. Most ale contains some herb or spice, usually hops, which imparts...

Yuengling - America's Oldest Brewery

Founded in 1829, D.G. Yuengling & Son, Inc. of Pottsville, PA, is recognized as "America's Oldest Brewery".  Yuengling (pronounced Ying-ling) has a very loyal customer base in Pennsylvania and surrounding states because of their gr...

Boddingtons

Boddingtons is the UKs most famous beer brand. Originally brewed at the Strangeways Brewery in Manchester it was marketed with the slogan "The Cream of Manchester". The Boddingtons beer range included bitter , pub ale, Gold and Mild. The be...

The Asheville Breweries

Microbreweries, pubs and taprooms! Asheville is making a name for itself when it comes to breweries. Besides the great breweries, we have blogs on beer, tours to the breweries, a store rated world's second best beer store and plenty of great pubs and...

Wine

Cabernet Sauvignon

Cabernet Sauvignon is the distinctive and particularly popular red wine produced from the grape variety of the same name. The grape is extremely widespread and versatile, found growing around the world in a variety of countries and climates, from Bor...

Wine And Chocolate: Perfect Partners?

Some say that pairing wine with chocolate can't be done, but if you have the right wine to complement the right chocolate it can be a match made in heaven! But the wrong wine opposite a too-sweet chocolate creates nothing but horror. A bad pairing c...

Make Great Wines At Home

You can save some money brewing your own favorite wines at home. Whether you are a hobbyist or serious manufacturer, you could probably find out that having that additional product line or secret recipe is a great thing to have. We will also have som...

Understanding Wine: A Beginners Guide

Grape growing and winemaking spread throughout Europe in the Greek and Roman times. Wine became such a valued trade item that the Romans, in 97BC, ordered the known world to pull out all vines in an attempt to protect their wine industry. Wine began...

GIGGLING GRAPES

Welcome to the world of laughter, lollygaggers and lots of light-hearted libations. Witty wine wonks and temperature-conscious tannin tasters will find this site appealing, (we hope). Our Guru of Giggling Grapes takes pride in offe...

How Wine is Made

As I sit here clicking away, sipping at my glass of wine and blithely ignoring the dogs' shredding of yet another toy, I cannot help but believe that most of us already know the icky truth: wine is rotton grape juice. Somewhere in the distant past, s...

Drinks Recipes

Drinks Recipes - It's fun mixing drinks, and with the right drinks recipe book you can hardly be caught by your firends not knowing how to mix even the most exotic one! Also, if you're the barkeeper at a large party, it pays to read up a bit and be su...

How to Make the Trendiest Shots in Town

Hi, I have been bartending for over 15 years servin' up drinks in some of the trendiest establishments in 3 major North American cities.  Shots are always a staple in nightclubs, most having their own in house shot recipes.  Along the way,...

Summer Cocktail Recipes

Summer is the party season and there's nothing quite like a cocktail to get the celebrations underway. Of course, if you're planning a party, drinks are the first thing on the shopping list. The big question is: What do I buy? There are many differen...

Bartender University - The Place Where Bartenders Rule

Ever wanted to know hot to mix cocktail drinks, what are the most popular mixed drinks or just some easy cocktail recipes for a romantic date? The Bartender University is the culmination of 15 years of my life behind the bar.

How to Make Great Jello Shots

Jello shots, jello shooters, or Vodka Jelly (to the Brits) are the most fun shots invented yet to date. Jello shots are a summer party necessity, that's good all year round. They immediately bring a little life to the party. You cannot have a boring...

Whisky

Irish Whiskey

The word whiskey is believed to be a corruption of the Gaelic word uisce beatha which means "water of life". The Scots call their spirit "whisky" (without the "e") whereas the Irish and Americans call theirs "whiskey". Confusingly though there are h...

Single Malt Scotch Whisky - A Buyers Guide

Single Malt Whisky is the purest form of scotch whisky, distilled in traditional ways for centuries in Scotland. There are many varities of Malt Whisky, yet the purist will avoid the blended malts and the cheaper end of the market often found on the...

All About Irish Coffee

One of Ireland's best known drinks, and made popular in America. Once sampled, the experience will live with you forever. You may even find yourself getting slightly addicted. The Irish have always had a great affinity with uisce beatha (ish keh ba...

Gin

Gin

If you are already a fan of Gin or new to the beverage I encourage you to look around. Gin is not just 3 or 4 brands nor is it limited to a standard taste. Gin is made by large distillers and by dozens and dozens of smaller companies and artisans. In...

Everything Gin

This lens is about everything on Gin, from how Gin is made to cocktails recipes using Gin and how to serve Gin.

General Alcohol Lenses

A Guide to Alcohol

Alcohol has been around for untold millennia in countless different forms; it is consumed in virtually immeasurable quantities the whole world over; it is appreciated by millions and unquestionably abused by a great many too: but what is alcohol...

Cold night, Drink Japanese Sake to keep you warm.

If you are under 18, this lens is for your knowledge only, NOT call for action. If you are 18+, I am not recommending anyone to drink and get drunk, everything in moderation. You take your own responsibility for your own action. NOT me.

Absinthe - The Green Fairy

Absinth(e) (in the UK & Europe it is spelt with an e) has one of the most mythical histories of any alcoholic drink. It was actually banned on a number of occasions due to the results of peoples reactions to it. The hallucinogenic properties of i...

How to Serve Absinthe

Absinthe, (pronounced ab-saint), is a distilled, highly alcoholic (usually 45 to 93 percent) anise-flavored spirit derived from herbs including the flowers and leaves of the medicinal plant Artemisia absinthium, also called Grand Wormwood or Absinth...

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Have your say

This is the place to share with other members and the wider world at large anything you may have to say on the wide ranging topic of alcohol...