Drink This: The WhiskeyBurger Cocktail

A couple weeks ago we started a controversy with our list of the 11 Manliest Cocktails. But I just found one that needs to be added to that list, pronto. It’s called the WhiskeyBurger Cocktail and its ingredients are:

The Whiskeyburger

3 oz ground-chuck-infused whiskey*
2 tsp tomato syrup*
1/4 tsp mustard bitters*

Stir well with cracked ice.

Strain into small old-fashioned glass or cocktail glass. Top off with lettuce-onion foam* and garnish with a dill-pickle round.

Some genius over at Esquire came up with this delicious concoction. They go through a long rigamarole of how to make the bitters and the tomato syrup. But if you want to put a MocDonald’s cheeseburger and a quart of Jim Beam in a blender, I don’t think anyone would complain.

via liquorsnob.com

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The 11 Manliest Cocktails In The World

You wouldn’t be caught dead drinking a cosmo, but all your friends will be drinking these at your funeral.

11. Irish Car Bomb
Why is it manly?: What’s manlier than going mano-a-beero with a pint of the world’s thickest stout mixed with a shot of whiskey? Knowing that if you don’t chug it fast enough, you’ll be downing chunks of curdled Bailey’s cream.
Recipe:
3/4 pint Guinness stout
1/2 shot Bailey’s Irish cream
1/2 shot Jameson Irish whiskey

10. Kentucky Tea
Why is it manly:? You can get shot in the face by an Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms federal agent just for making this cocktail.
Recipe:
1 mason jar halfway full of moonshine
Fill the jar with branch water

9. Rusty Nail
Why is it manly?: I can’t put my finger on exactly why, but there’s something oddly macho about asking your girlfriend if she would like to sip on your Rusty Nail.
Recipe:
¾ oz. scotch
¼ oz. Drambuie
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Beer Is Better For Your Brain Than Wine

Hmm, maybe this is why I turn into a loud-mouthed know-it-all after a 12 pack of Meister Brau. According to independent.co.uk:

Drinking too much wine damages the brain more than beer or spirits, scientists have discovered.

New research on the long-term effects of heavy drinking shows that one area of the brains of wine drinkers was smaller than that of other people studied who drank different drinks in greater amounts.

The ground-breaking study shows that the hippocampus, the part of the brain involved in memory, spatial tasks and many other functions, was more than 10 per cent smaller in those whose tipple was wine than in those who favoured beer.

As someone who drinks wine, beer, spirits and, occasionally Scotch Guard, I understood three words of that report. Well, back to Happy Hour.

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Drink This: Lucid Absinthe

Absinthe is back. After being banned for nearly 100 years, the mythical licorice-flavored spirit is now legally sold in both the US and Europe and it’s your duty to see what all the fuss is about. But first, a history lesson. The legend that absinthe has hallucinogenic properties is false. In late 19th Century Paris, absinthe was very popular among the artists and bohemian culture. Social conservatives (i.e. Republicans) and the local wine industry (worried about losing market share to the up-and-coming absinthe) joined forces to promote a propaganda campaign against the green spirit and claimed that the wormwood shrub used to make it contained a chemical called Thujone which made humans delirious and “made a ferocious beast of a man, a martyr of a woman and a degenerate of an infant.” A few murders were blamed on it and petitions were quickly signed all over Europe to ban the drink.

The problem is, there’s not nearly enough Thujone in absinthe to make you go bonkers and there’s no scientific evidence that Thujone even has any affect on humans. But having said that, you don’t want to start shooting absinthe like it’s Happy Hour at Applebee’s. At 124 proof, Lucid has an alcohol content that can put you on your ass faster than you can say “I love to drink more than I love my family.” Mix it with a little water and sugar like they did back in the day. It’ll help you stay upright and it will make you look like you’re civilized gentleman. Go here to see how to drink it like Ernest Hemingway, Oscar Wilde and Vincent Van Gogh.

Lucid is the first traditional absinthe to be released in the US market since the 2007 ban was lifted. Pick up a bottle today for $60. Buy it here.

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