- 8 years ago Sticky: Come check out /t/cocktails!
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Highland Park Whisky - How to do a Tasting
Gerry Tosh of Highland Park walks you through a simple formula for whisky nosing and tasting. This is designed for the novice and will hopefully help people experience whisky more fully.
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Guinness Experiments with New Blonde American Lager
Our neighbors across the pond are heading stateside for their latest offering: Guinness Blonde American Lager. Guinness’ parent company Diageo teamed up with City Brewing Company — a contract brewery operating in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee – to craft the new beer made with Mosaic and Willamette American hops.
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The Future of Iced Coffee
At its cafes, Blue Bottle might make one of the best iced-coffee drinks in America. But are artisan businesses doomed to fail when they try going mainstream?
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That Millennial Marketing Verve
Last summer, a dozen people, mostly in their late teens and early twenties, crowded into a living room in Aldan, Pennsylvania, a small working-class suburb outside of Philadelphia. They toggled back and forth between smartphones and tablets while they downed an energy drink called Verve. "Did you know Red Bull and Monster can stay on the shelf for more than four years?" one guest told another.
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Jager Bombs Master
Jager Bombs Master
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Scientists developing cow-free milk that tastes like the real thing
If you’re a vegan but can’t stand milk substitutes like soy, rice or coconut, then this man-made milk may be right for you. Scientists at San Francisco-based biotech start-up Muufri - (get it, moo free?) - have developed a formula to re-create cow milk: six proteins for structure and function and eight fatty acids for flavor and richness, according to Muufri’s website.
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OMFG It's the PSL!
The pumpkin spice latte got plucked from the dust heap of market research to become a full-fledged fall obsession.
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Coca-Cola Brings Back Surge Soda to Tap 1990s Nostalgia
Coca-Cola Co. (KO)’s newest social-media campaign reaches back to a time when even MySpace didn’t exist. Surge, a citrus-flavored Mountain Dew knockoff that was discontinued by Coke about 12 years ago, has reappeared in limited supply today. The only place to get it: Amazon.com.
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Artificial sweeteners linked to obesity epidemic, scientists say
Artificial sweeteners may exacerbate, rather than prevent, metabolic disorders such as Type 2 diabetes, a study suggests. Calorie-free artificial sweeteners are often chosen by dieters in part because they are thought not to raise blood sugar levels.
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Starbucks experimenting with new latte that tastes just like Guinness
The multinational company is testing consumer reaction to its formula: a creamy latte inspired by Irish stout.
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So This Is What $25,000 Scotch Tastes Like
I recently attended a special tasting dinner at Le Bernardin to try a newly released single-malt 50-year-old Glenlivet Scotch ($25,000 a bottle, a stocking stuffer for aficionados). What follows are some descriptive phrases in the lexicon of lushes I heard my fellow dinner-goers use to describe the stuff:
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Soda Makers Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Dr Pepper Join in Effort to Cut Americans’ Drink Calories
The three largest soda companies — Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and the Dr Pepper Snapple Group — have pledged to cut the number of sugary drink calories that Americans consume by one-fifth in about a decade, through a combination of marketing, distribution and packaging.
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Soda industry spends $7.7 million to defeat SF sugar tax — so far
The American Beverage Industry has spent $7.7 million— the second-highest amount ever spent to defeat a San Francisco ballot proposition — on its effort to try to prevent the city from becoming the first in the country to tax sodas and other sugary drinks.
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This Label Says Just How Bad Juice and Soda Are
What if nutrition labels told people exactly what calories meant, in practical terms? A bottle of Coke could dole out specific exercise requirements. The calories herein, it might say, are the equivalent of a 50-minute jog. The decision to drink the Coke then becomes, would you rather spend the evening on a treadmill, or just not drink the soda?
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I would sell a piece of my soul to have this cocktail right now
Not only it gives me great pleasure to watch this bartender preparing a Rum Martínez but it whets my thirst to no end. And to top it all, it is made with my favorite rum: Zacapa Centenario 23. I just want this magic potion right now.
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First Sign of Apocalypse Comes in Form of Doritos Flavored Mountain Dew Drink
Like many terrifying rumors, it started on Reddit. Redditor joes_nipples posted an image Thursday of a Doritos-flavored Mountain Dew tasting table, aptly called Dewritos with the caption, “It actually tasted like Doritos.”
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Pepsi admits to testing Doritos-flavored Mountain Dew on human subjects
In an insane marriage that could only come from two XTREME #brands like Doritos and Mountain Dew, Quartz has learned that Pepsi has thrown caution to the wind and created a Doritos-flavored...
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History, Sugar and Sex: Why Mixed Drinks Were Terrible for 30 Years
Imagine you are overworked, sleep-deprived and keen to begin your weekend with a well-aimed salvo of intoxicating elixirs. Where will you execute this time-honored plan, American drinker of 2015? If you live in a reasonably large metropolis, your watering-hole options might include: the artisanal cocktail emporium where the staff display a fondness for arm garters and moustache wax...
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Diet Pepsi dropping aspartame on customer concerns
PepsiCo says it's dropping aspartame from Diet Pepsi in response to customer worries and replacing it with sucralose, another artificial sweetener commonly known as Splenda. The decision to swap sweeteners comes as Americans keep turning away from popular diet sodas. Rival Coca-Cola said this week that sales volume for Diet Coke, which also uses aspartame, fell 5 percent in North America in the first three months of the year.
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Crystal Pepsi Is Poised for a Comeback
Crystal Pepsi appears headed for a comeback, that much is clear. But details on when and how the 1990s-era cola will return remain murky. The clear cola was first introduced in 1992 but lasted only a few years. Despite its short lifespan, the drink apparently gained a loyal following of consumers who have lobbied PepsiCo to bring it back.