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Bols, the makers of over 30 flavored liqueurs including Blueberry, Mango & Pomegranate want to send you to the city of your choice to tend bar in the hottest spots. All you need to do is create an original video showing off your bartending skills. Of course, they want you to at least one flavor of Bols Liqueur in your original creation. So get mixing, entries must be in by August 31 2008.
Get all the details:
Bols Around the World Video Contest
Reader Xpnsve sent us this tropical treat. What a great reward after those meddling kids foils yet another diabolical plan. It is a good thing that Fred drives the Mystery Machine, leave the snacks to Shaggy and Scooby.
Go Scoob!
Scooby Snack
3/4 oz Malibu rum
3/4 oz Midori melon liqueur
1 oz Pineapple juice
1/2 oz Half-and-half
Shake ingredients in a mixing cup with ice. Strain into 7 oz. rocks glass and serve over ice.
Add your favorite cocktail recipe, it could be Drink of the Week!
past Drink of the Week Cocktails
Who knew there was a whole day devoted to one of the greatest Popsicle ever, the Creamsicle. What a great idea, I enjoyed these so much as a child and occasionally as an adult.
Yum, they are awesome!
Of course, we have a version that comes in a cocktail glass.
Read more:
The Official Popsicle Website
National Creamsicle Day - Zany Holidays
Happy National Creamsicle Day! - Slashfood
With hundreds of hours Olympic coverage to watch over the next two weeks, we figured a drinking game was in order. Of course, we ask that you drink responsibly. There aren’t any Gold Medals for finishing this one first.
Keeping things simple, take a drink each time:
1) There is a reference to the Olympics being “China’s coming out party”
2) They show special interest story about an athlete
3) A commentator tells you what the athlete is thinking
4) They run that scary United Airlines commercial
5) Each time an athlete screws up, they say “He/She was perfect in practice”
6) Each time they pan to George Bush (feel free to do a line of coke as well, *not condoned by DOTW)
7) Each time there is a highlight reel, mixed with the Goo Goo Dolls
8) A former Olympian/Commentator let’s us know what they would have done differently or reminisces on the old days
9) They have a reporter wander around Beijing
10) They reference past glory or a new dynasty
11) Bob Costas has a guest on the couch
12) They show us Yao Ming, Kobe Bryant or LeBron James
13) Each time your country wins a Gold Medal
14) Commentator says athlete is bringing their “A Game”, is going to “Shake things up” or gives 110%
Feel free to add you own by commenting below. We know there are many others we missed.
InBev buys Anheuser-Busch, Moslon buys Coors, Miller and MolsonCoors merge and Pabst buys Stroth’s, Schlitz, and Olypmia. With all the consolidation in the Beer Industry, who know who is now making your favorite brew. Fortune Magazine put together this handy in interactive chart to help us all keep track. Amazingly, Sam Adams Brewer, Boston Beer is now the largest, independent, publicly-traded brewery in the USA.
99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall - Fortune Magazine
I usually don’t recycle our Drink of the Week, but we figured once every 4 years is acceptable for honoring the opening of the Olympic Games. What can I say, this cocktail, aptly named “The Olympic” wins a gold medal every time!
Olympic
1 oz. Brandy
1 oz. Triple Sec
1 oz. Orange Juice
Orange Peel
Combine ingredients in a shaker filled with ice, shake and strain into a chilled martini or cocktail glass. Garnish with the orange peel.
more Olympic Cocktails
past Drink of the Week Cocktails
Finally recovering after having my Appendix explode a week ago, I am finally able to get back to sharing the wonderful world of cocktails with you all. Writing this from my hospital bed, I thought it would be fun to see what I could find in the way of Medical or Hospital themed bars and drinks. Good thing themed bars are all the rage.
I found bars in Australia, Japan and one in Singapore named “The Clinic”. The Clinic dresses as doctors and nurses and serve food in syringes, pill form and test tubes. Cocktails with fun names like, Sex on a Drip and Nitro Sangria are cleverly served from an IV bag.
Wow, I wish they had these IVs at my hospital.
The Clinic - Singapore
via ThaiMed.com
Every four years the world gathers for the Olympic Games. In a few short days the Games begin in Beijing, China. To celebrate the folks at Castle Brands created cocktails made with ingredients from the 4 corners if the World. Italian Limoncello, American Bourbon, Irish Whiskey and Bermudian Rum anchor this international cocktail relay. Have a favorite cocktail with and Olympic twist? We want to hear about it. Add your drink to the competition.
Bermuda Torch
1 oz. Gosling’s Gold Rum
½ oz. Amaretto
3 oz. pineapple juice
Splash of grenadine
Build ingredients in a tall glass with ice.
American Relay
3 ½ oz. Jefferson’s Bourbon
1 ½ oz. Pallini Peachcello
2 dashes Angostura bitters
Combine ingredients in a shaker with ice. Strain into a martini glass.
Italian Double Gold
1 oz. Pallini Limoncello
1 ½ oz. Alize Gold Passion
½ oz. lime juice
½ oz. cranberry juice
Shake ingredients and serve on the rocks.
Irish Triathlon
1 oz. Boru Vodka
1 oz. Celtic Crossing
1 oz. Brady’s Irish Cream
Shake ingredients and serve over ice in a rocks glass.
courtesy Castle Brands
I know we really don’t cover tech news, but this is to good to pass up. This iphone app, available at iTunes for $2.99, turns your handset into a virtual beer mug.
The application mimics the movements of a typical beer mug. Chug, and it drains. Jiggle it and it will spill. We recommend sipping.
iBeer has no real useful application that we could find. Still, we see it as a bar ice breaker, so maybe $3 is a bargain?
iBeer for the iPhone, via Asylum
Building on the success of his restaurant at the St. Francis Hotel, Michael Mina has converted a former jewelry store into a bar worthy of a scene out of Mad Men. 
The Bar was designed in “neo-mod” style, reminiscent of cocktail lounges 50 years ago. I was impressed by the extensive cocktail menu, fresh ingredients and attention to detail. Hat’s off to the friendly staff and amazing cocktails.
This cocktail is a shout out to the Hotel and a revival of one of the original Martinis. From the menu:
“The history of the Martini is shrouded in mystery. But most agree that San Francisco was its birthplace. One story credits a bartender at the St. Francis with the olive garnish. This was first know as the St. Francis Cocktail.”
St. Francis Cocktail
Junipero Gin
Dry Vermouth
Orange Bitters
Stir 2 - 3 oz of Gin with a dash each of Vermouth and Orange Bitters in a mixing glass over ice. Strain into a chilled Cocktail Glass.
Garnish with mixed olives.
Read the SF Gate Review - Michael Mina’s Clock Bar
Micahel Mina’s Clock Bar
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