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New Apps! Making Mixed Alcoholic Drinks & Online Breathalyzer

zaca — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:05:12 +0000

These new online drinking apps are not only helpful, but quite entertaining.

Bartender – Making Mixed Alcoholic Drinks

Check out this 1st application. It has over 300 Recipes for Cocktails, Mixed Drinks and Punches. Just click on the couple alcohols you have in your cabinet, check a box if you have ice, and click serve to get all the possible drinks you can make. Great for entertaining at parties by utilizing every ingredient you have on hand. Click Here to visit our links page to this application.

Online Breathalyzer

Enter things like your age, sex and the kinds of drinks, and this application spits out what your BAC is. Pretty neat. Calculate how drunk your friend really is, find out if it’s safe to drive or simply see how many drinks you are able to handle and prevent a hangover. Click Here to visit our links page to this application.

What Drinks Cause Hangovers?

zaca — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:07:11 +0000

Is it true that some alcoholic drinks cause worse hangovers than others? Have you ever wondered what kind of drinks cause hangovers? Is it beer from bottles, keg beer, red wine, white wine, hard liquor?

“Experts say that the type of alcohol you drink does make a difference, but for various reasons. Among the most important is the amount of congeners (pronounced CON-juh-nurz) — complex organic molecules — in a particular drink. Impurities in poorly refined spirits like cheap vodka can also play a role, but congeners, which are common in darker liquors, seem to have the greatest effect.

According to one report in The British Medical Journal, which looked at the effects of different types of alcohol, the drink that produced the most hangover symptoms was brandy, followed by red wine, rum, whiskey, white wine, gin and vodka. Another study showed that bourbon was twice as likely to cause sickness as the same amount of vodka.”
By Anahad O’Conner, New York Times

As for wines, although experts have had a hard time pin-pointing what influences the severity of a hangover, they do know it varies from brand to brand, grape to grape and price to price.

It only take 3.2 drinks to induce a hangover according to a recent survey. For some people it can take 1 to 2 drinks.

Anything with alcohol can potentially cause a hangover, however, as New York Times states “certain types of alcohol can make a hangover worse.”

Next time you buy alcohol you’ll be just little bit more informed on what drinks cause hangovers to make sure you enjoy the morning after.

New York Times
By ANAHAD O’CONNOR http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/07/health/07real.html?_r=1

Need to warm up? Have a HOT winter drink!

zaca — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:59:48 +0000

If the weather near you is anything near Denver’s right now, you’re probably freezing! It’s a great time to hit the mountains and go skiing and snowboarding, and it’s a great time to have a nice HOT drink!

We wanted to help you warm up by giving you a drink recipe. If you’re going to be drinking, try some Spiced Cider. Read below for the recipe. Enjoy!

6 oz Calvados or other apple brandy
2 broken cinnamon sticks
1 quart (4 cups) apple cider
1 Tbsp whole allspice
6 cinnamon sticks (for garnish

Instructions (serves 6)

Put broken allspice and cinnamon sticks in a cheesecloth bag. Then put it in a saucepan with apple cider and heat gradually until steaming (do not boil). Pour 1 oz of apple brandy into each mug. Fill each mug with the apple cider and stir with a whole cinnamon stick. And serve immediately.