Yesterday, we discovered the aesthetic joys of luxurious methadone packaging. Just in time for lunch time, here are some awesomely TIPSY shot glasses by Loris&Livia. Bottoming out has never looked so stylish, so bottoms up! These Dalí-esque beauties are actually classic French Duralex Picardie glasses, deformed with some skillful melting in East London and perfect for a dainty serving of liquor and giggles about how meta they are. Read more »
From Pop Chart Labs, the makers of The Beauteous Bike Lanes of New York City map, comes a chart so intricate, this thumbnail can’t do it justice. Come, come here for the Constitutions of Classic Cocktails – click to zoom and peruse in detail. The pie-chart/line-graph/linear-pictorial guide breaks down 68 classic drinks into their constituents, from the spirits to bitters, to the mixers and splashes, to the garnishes on top. So many drinks. Just one liver. It took year for these chart-masters to create this informational gem and it is “as functional as it is beautiful.” Hang it on your wall, study it up and down and all around. Read more »
When Mayor Bloomberg proposes a ban on anything nowadays, it’s best to err on the side of caution and assume he means business. So, it’s not surprising there was an uproar around the city from just the hint of him considering an initiative that would limit NYC’s booze inventory and other measures to curb alcohol use, quickly leading to some backpedaling from the politician. Read more »
New York City’s mayor who refuses to inform the public when he flies away on his private jet to Bermuda for the weekend, but is up everyone’s ass about how much salt they put on their fries is now tackling a new vice loved by city residents: alcohol. Read more »
This “hydraulic typewriter” converts letters into cocktails with the press of a “key” using 136 interconnected translucent tubules. Finally, an impressive development to the Russian DIY hooch industry. The colors! The colors! Read more »
According to some poll about young people doing drugs that people pay attention to, kids aren’t telling their parents about the kegger they went to or the bowl of tasty Kush they smoked. The New York Times reports on the bewildering discrepancies, and they’re asking kids about how much their parents know–or more likely don’t know. Read more »
Unless you’re excited by lots of olde tyme bottles, June 15 Fine Glass Crap auction at Bonhams is zzzzz. They do have this unusually fancy, monogrammed glass in a gilded, red-leather carrying case. Its origins “circumstantially” yet “strongly suggest” it was Napoleon’s. It will run you $3K-$5K. Perfect for sipping very old shipwrecked champagne — recently bought by an anonymous internet bidder for $78K — or ornately disguising your alcoholism.
Crazy blog English Russia has a step-by-step guide to making absinthe… at home! It’s all very thorough, from infusing (“Don’t burn the herbs!”) to aging your drips of gunky green in a dark closet. What an awesome NOT! and classy NOT! idea. On the bright side, if you’re disappointed that absinthe cannot legally make you hallucinate fairies anymore, this jar-hooch just might.
If you prefer your bubbly sweet, crisp, 200 years old and salvaged from a 19th century shipwreck in the Baltic Sea, well then, you’re in luck! Acker Merrall & Condit of New York is putting two of 150 recovered bottles of champagne on auction in Finland in June. Obviously, if you like your whiskey in a can instead of a frosty crate found in Antarctica, you are not sophistimacated enough to pay $82,000 for this hot shit right here.
It takes a precise touch to make the perfect Bloody Mary, in fact, there’s science going on in that glass, as seen in this ever nifty pictorial of Bloody Mary flavors and notes. Read more »
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